Russia has lost 1,330 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day alone, bringing its total number of personnel losses to 900,800.
    • seejur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Lost means “not able to fight”. If they lose a leg, they might be alive, but not very useful in the battlefield. Therefore the soldier, not the human, is lost.

      Most of it it’s because in military setting, those two are equivalent, sine the only thing they care is about how many abled bodies they have available for the meat grinder.

        • seejur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          What I meant is:

          Propaganda is writing 0.99 with the intention of tricking people into buying. Note here to purpose of writing 99 is used.

          Casualties was born from the necessity of generals to know how many troops are available. There is no psychological trick in there. Just because civilians misinterpret it does not mean there is a propagandistic goal hidden somewhere.

          See the difference?