• Optional@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Anyone know the number of Americans killed in Vietnam without looking it up?

    Tap for spoiler

    ~58,000

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    The world allowing the few to massacre the many for their personal gain has to be what we reject in the 21st century. We need to start arresting and trying every war monger for the murders they are.

  • Resand@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Seeing as they are still on their murderous war of conquest, obviously not enough yet.

  • Teknikal@eviltoast.org
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    8 days ago

    Let them keep dying, it’s pretty obvious Russias weak if it wasn’t for the Nukes the rest of Europe would just pull an Iraq on them. I feel Russias real threat is probably China though they have a lot of land and it’s ripe for the taking.

  • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    They throw their young generations into the meat grinder just to control resources. Putin couldn’t find a way to pivot to new domestic products so now people get to die.

    Fight war, not wars.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The fucking Muscovites can continue to fertilize the earth. The loss of troops and material means nothing to the Russians. The asswipes will continue to use mass assaults until the soldiers or the public revolts. Until then, Fuck Russia and US Reichwingers.

  • Madison420@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Let’s just remember Putin does have a sense of humor. Sending families of dead soldiers lost in what the world is calling a meat grinder literal meat grinders as presents is extremely funny in a way it absolutely shouldn’t be.

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    8 days ago

    Russian has been losing and the economy is collapsing since 2018 according to these news. Every other week I see something like this. Yet we dont see them retreating.

    900k is more than 50% of there forces according to wikipedia that list 1.5 millions.

    I highly doubt the accuracy of these news reports.

    • poopkins@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I travel a lot, both for work and leisure, and wherever there’s no travel restrictions for Russians, like Thailand, UAE, or Egypt, it’s simply overrun with Russian tourists. And they’re rich, too, with the latest iPhones, Apple Watches and all the other fashion brands.

      As much as I’d like to see l say that Russia is feeling the impact of this war, empirically, I can’t say that it seems that way.

      • Furbag@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Classism is present in Russia too.

        I watched a couple of YouTube videos from a normal guy who lives in Russia talking about what it was actually like to live in Russia around the time that Tucker Carlson did that weird state visit and he peeled back a layer of intentional propaganda that the American journalist was spreading - that Russians are living in some kind of luxury paradise. Sure, everything costs less over there, but people are also paid a lot less too. If you’re working class, it’s hard to afford enough food to put on the table sometimes. The rich, however, are not hurting for anything and a lot of big brand labels that said they would exit Russia just rebranded themselves or quietly re-entered the market after all the commotion about the war died down.

        • poopkins@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          I didn’t mean to suggest that it isn’t affecting the ordinary, working class Russian. My observation is that there don’t appear to be any less affluent Russian tourists.