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Norbert

(7,567 posts)
2. To put it in context...
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:37 PM
Mar 2025

almost 417,000 American lives were lost in World War 2 and we were fighting in Europe and the Pacific. 900,000 in a small region in three years is incredibly large.

erronis

(22,665 posts)
5. Good to hear what might be positive news. Please don't use the xitter only to support your post.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 08:36 PM
Mar 2025

Many of us block that xit and since it goes through the musk xitter-maker, how can we trust it?

Even just a one or two sentence description of the contents would be most welcome.

Thank you.

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,985 posts)
7. Reminder: after around 900k total casualties, russia currently occupies 19% of Ukraine
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:21 AM
Mar 2025

Putin lost territory and troops in this invasion

Reminder: after around 900k total casualties, russia currently occupies 19% of Ukraine. It occupied 30% three years ago, when it had less than 100k total casualties. Let’s stop pretending that russia is in a position of strength. It’s only the US that tries to put it in one

Joni Askola (@joniaskola.bsky.social) 2025-03-22T10:35:35.334Z


MineralMan

(150,642 posts)
9. Well, the thing is that when you are attacked by a foreign country,
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:46 AM
Mar 2025

you fight back. It's dangerous, but essential, it seems to me.

Ping Tung

(4,141 posts)
10. Cannon fodder for the boss's ambitions.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:57 AM
Mar 2025
“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”

Yossarian in Catch-22
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