The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 06.10.24

@wildflower · 13 days ago

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 06.10.24

@Buffalox · edit-2 13 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

USA total deaths in WW2 was 419,400, While the number from Ukraine in principle is losses, there is some uncertainty if they are actual deaths.
But at face value, the Russian losses stated by Ukraine are already 50% higher in about half the time, than what USA suffered for the duration of WW2.
The number of wounded for USA was 671,801, for some weird reason the Wiki page doesn’t state the casualty rate? Which AFAIK must be the 2 numbers added which is just above a million. But AFAIK the Ukraine number is NOT casualties, it’s stated as losses, AFAIK meaning dead captured or wounded beyond ability to fight again.

I’m not American, but I think Vietnam was psychologically very different than WW2, because USA lost and was also accused of war crimes. It was considered a shameful war.
While after WW2 USA was undisputed heroes that succeeded in liberating the world from Nazism. (together with allies)

So for Russians the Ukraine war is a lot more like Vietnam than WW2. Even if they don’t accept it yet.

@[email protected] · 13 days ago

There is a Wiki article showing a number of different estimates. It is almost certainly casualties and at that a high estimate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

@Buffalox · 13 days ago

Russian forces: 462,000–728,000 killed and wounded 24 Feb. 2022 – 5 July 2024 So doesn’t seem high compared to that Wikipedia page it’s been 3 months of about 1100 per day, so backdating todays number of 660k by 90x1000 = 561k Which is the lower end of casualties.

@[email protected] · 13 days ago

There are other estimates on that page and some like Austins with 350k are much lower. The US Secretary of Defense is also a pretty decent source, so hard to dismiss that one.