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> not tens or hundreds of millions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties https://en.wikipe
by throwaway4aday 4y ago
> not tens or hundreds of millions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#:~:text=An%20estimated%20total%20of%2070,war%2Drelated%20disease%20and%20famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#:~:tex....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties
I wonder if there's an analogous metric to wtfpm that applies to historical ignorance because it sure as hell seems to be increasing lately.
- consumer451 4y agoI personally just don't see conventional war going to those numbers today, unless we completely unravel economic interdependence.
- cwmoore 4y ago*ding* that would do it
- hallway_monitor 4y agoIf there's one good thing about global capitalism, it's that it has replaced outright violence as the best way to gain power!
- kneebonian 4y agoI've posted about this too many times to repeat so your wrong WW1 yada yada
- throwaway4aday 4y agoThat's the same line of thinking that most people had prior to WW1 so I wouldn't be so sure. s/Germany/China/g and things will unravel pretty fast.
- reisse 4y agoSyrian civil war is above 1m military and civilian casualties. War in Yemen and US invasion in Iraq are close.