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  • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
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    27 days ago

    I don’t think its quite that high, I think the US would have a harder time hiding it if so. Though I do think it’s a few hundred at least right now.

    • ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml
      10·
      27 days ago

      I expect nothing but a pack of lies from the U.S. government on this topic. The infowar means they have to lie to us or somehow distort it, like how Ukraine and Russia declared their dead after a few weeks but haven’t given an update since 2022.

    • gnuthing [they/them]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      26 days ago

      How hard of a time would we actually have hiding it? We could hold the bodies back for sure, don’t have to make a show of sending them home. How tight is control over military personnel’s communication channels in these kinds of situations?

      • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        25 days ago

        I think the thing that confuses me the most about how more information hasn’t gotten out is in regards to other soldiers blow8mg the whistle.

        I don’t put much trust in US storm troopers, but I expect a level of self preservation to Trump their ghoulish worship of empire. So I’m confused why none of them have tried leaking casualty rates in order to potentially effect the war effort.

        Getting into their head is difficult enough already for me, but if I were on their shoes, and I was seeing my fellow imperial foot soldiers get easily evisrated by a Shahed drone, I’d be doing everything in my power to get myself out of the firing line. Disobedience seems like the best way to do that.

        Perhaps my view of these guys is flawed though, or my understanding of how the US military apparatus would stifle that behavior is incomplete.