“A war with Iran will be interpreted throughout the region as a war against Shiism. Soon there will be retaliation. Lots of it. It will come at first with desultory missile strikes and then attacks carried out by elusive enemies on ships, military bases and installations. Steadily it will grow in volume and lethality. The death toll, including among the some 40,000 soldiers and Marines stationed in the Middle East, will mount. Ships, including aircraft carriers, will be targeted.”
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We are opening Pandora's box.
JUN 22, 2025
We graduated high school in 1962 with Joe Dynesko. He showed us a photo of the Army company he graduated with, 100 boys. Three came back. He was an X-ray tech in Vietnam.
I graduated in 1962. Some of the boys at our lunch table at the Scott Senior High School cafeteria came back from Vietnam in a box.
58,220 US service members died in the Vietnam War 75,000 classified as severely disabled and 23,214 as 100% disabled.Veterans
Heroin came home along with soldiers from Vietnam but that’s a different story:
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
In modern warfare most casualties are wounded not killed. Russia exceeded 1 million casualties in 3 years of war with Ukraine.
- Over 1.8 million veterans have some degree of officially recognized disability as a result of the wars. Veterans of the post-9/11 wars account for more than half of the severely disabled veteran population.
- More than 40 percent of post-9/11 veterans – an extraordinarily high proportion – are entitled to lifetime disability payments, and this number is expected to increase to 54 percent over the next 30 years. By comparison, fewer than 25 percent of veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the first Gulf War have been certified as having a service-connected disability.
- The economic costs of caring for post-9/11 war vets will reach between $2.2 and $2.5 trillion by 2050.
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The funeral business in Russia is booming. “In total, between January and April 2025, funeral service providers in the country earned nearly 40bn rubles – (£380m), a 12.7% year-on-year increase, according to Rosstat, Russia’s federal state statistics service.”
“Sometimes, I check the name of the person we’re burying and realize it’s someone I know – someone I went to school with or met before,” said Nikolai, who asked that his last name be withheld for fear of government reprisal…
In total, between January and April 2025, funeral service providers in the country earned nearly 40bn rubles – (£380m), a 12.7% year-on-year increase, according to Rosstat, Russia’s federal state statistics service.
This month, Russia’s wartime toll of dead and wounded reached a historic milestone.
According to the British Ministry of Defence, more than one million Russian troops have been killed or injured since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022…
In just over three years, Russian fatalities are estimated to be five times higher than the combined death toll from all Soviet and Russian wars between the end of the second world war and the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.
The war in Ukraine has proved far deadlier for the Kremlin than other recent conflicts: Russia’s losses are roughly 15 times greater than those suffered during the Soviet Union’s decade-long war in Afghanistan, and 10 times higher than in Russia’s 13-year war in Chechnya.
And it’s not just the dead returning in caskets – soldiers with amputated limbs and serious injuries are also coming home, driving a sharp rise in the production of prosthetic limbs.
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One million and counting: Russian casualties hit milestone in Ukraine war
As grim tally of its invasion is reached, expansive propaganda campaign and state payouts are keeping grieving relatives onside
Sun 22 Jun 2025 01:00 EDT
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