• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    That’s uh… For a couple decades.

    A better way of looking at it would be to extrapolate an average casualty rate per month.

    Using their most up to date numbers 208k through June 2020. That’s about 1,000 deaths a month. If we do the same with their 2005 estimate, because casualties are massively front loaded… We get 2,000 deaths a month.

    Then we need to talk about their methodology. They include local news reporting which routinely lied about casualties being fighters or civilians. For reference I remember our translator reading us an article that said our night vision goggles were X-ray vision.