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0 pointsriku_iki8y ago0 comments

> That’s tens of millions

It says "This study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths ", which is not "tens". Now imagine death toll if US would directly fight war with USSR over Europe.

And yes, it includes Vietnam and Korean wars, where high precision weapons weren't used yet.

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dragonwriter8y ago

> It says "This study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths ", which is not "tens".

The total casualties in the wars between the superpower-led coalitions substantially exceed the casualties caused by the US military in those wars. (And, in any case, yes, in the normal way terms of scale are used, a number ≥ 10^7 and < 10^8 is usually described as “tens of millions”.)

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0 pointsriku_iki8y ago0 comments

> That’s tens of millions

And yes, it includes Vietnam and Korean wars, where high precision weapons weren't used yet.

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dragonwriter8y ago

> It says "This study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths ", which is not "tens".

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