While it's unclear how many casualties are from Israeli strikes and how many are from US strikes, considering that the US opened with a missile on a fucking school, there may not be much difference at this point.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, the civilian casualty ratio of the US was around 15% by third-party estimates - that is to say, one civilian died for every 5 or so soldiers - and regarded as unacceptably high in civilized circles considering the level of precision the US military was capable of.
By the Iranian government's numbers, the civilian casualty ratio in this latest US-initiated clusterfuck has been 50%. That is to say, for every Iranian soldier killed, an Iranian civilian was also killed.
... but by HRANA's count, the actual ratio may be as high as 66% - for every Iranian soldier killed, two Iranian civilians have been killed.
By means of comparison, Israel's claims (nearly universally rejected as undercounts) for its genocide in Gaza was a 50% civilian casualty ratio. Actual estimates range from 60%-90%.
Even if this war wasn't pigfucking imperialism, the conduct would be nothing less than murderous. But the war is pigfucking imperialism, and murderous to boot. It's not even a case of "Well, we had to kill the soldiers." Every life taken by this idiocy, in uniform or out, has been murder for... God fucking knows what reason.
Hey now, they checked some 30 year old documents. So it was totally understandable that they, the organization with the most access to information and resources in history, murdered school children. Honest mistake! Why you still bringing that up?
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Draegur@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 71d
in Israeli Military Parlance, each of those words translate to "Hamas"
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 8 pts · 71d
Amazing.
Edit: Done.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 10 pts · 71d
While it's unclear how many casualties are from Israeli strikes and how many are from US strikes, considering that the US opened with a missile on a fucking school, there may not be much difference at this point.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, the civilian casualty ratio of the US was around 15% by third-party estimates - that is to say, one civilian died for every 5 or so soldiers - and regarded as unacceptably high in civilized circles considering the level of precision the US military was capable of.
By the Iranian government's numbers, the civilian casualty ratio in this latest US-initiated clusterfuck has been 50%. That is to say, for every Iranian soldier killed, an Iranian civilian was also killed.
... but by HRANA's count, the actual ratio may be as high as 66% - for every Iranian soldier killed, two Iranian civilians have been killed.
By means of comparison, Israel's claims (nearly universally rejected as undercounts) for its genocide in Gaza was a 50% civilian casualty ratio. Actual estimates range from 60%-90%.
Even if this war wasn't pigfucking imperialism, the conduct would be nothing less than murderous. But the war is pigfucking imperialism, and murderous to boot. It's not even a case of "Well, we had to kill the soldiers." Every life taken by this idiocy, in uniform or out, has been murder for... God fucking knows what reason.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 71d
Geez, I know Target pissed some people off a while back, but doesn't Walmart deserve some ordinance, too?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 71d
Hey now, they checked some 30 year old documents. So it was totally understandable that they, the organization with the most access to information and resources in history, murdered school children. Honest mistake! Why you still bringing that up?
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 71d
You need to add in "friendly convoy".
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d
I love these