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War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

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Re: War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

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I can confirm, my firefox on linux crashes immediately as well. Curiously, the website works just fine in chrome on android. Blink monopoly strikes again, I guess.

No issues here on Linux, using Firefox 140.12.0esr under Slackware and Plasma 6.7.2 / Wayland

I have 152.0 installed from flatpack on Fedora Kinoite 43 (Plasma 6.6.3 / Wayland)

Maybe it's a firefox bug that was introduced somewhere after 140? idk

Re: War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

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Casualties do not mean deaths. A wounded soldier can return to combat later. I can't find numbers or more information about this because Google has stopped returning results that match my queries.

Should try to use alternative searches. Can recommend Kagi

How come no one on this website uses the word “I”

Re: War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

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Love this. Acurate display of humanity and what it does when things run out. Would be cool if ithad a ethnicity map showing a cultures get transported elsewhere or vanish (e.g. the minority purges over the last hundred years in the middle east).

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Casualties do not mean deaths. A wounded soldier can return to combat later. I can't find numbers or more information about this because Google has stopped returning results that match my queries.

In the modern warfare with drones that made "killzone" to be 30-40kms from the frontline, with current russian tactics of infiltration by small groups and inability of them running medivac groups, the ratio of wounded vs dead in casualities are nowhere near to what it was in previous wars. Don't have the exact number but some estimates were 1:1 wounded:dead ratio on Russian side

That is grim but fascinating

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You said human waves, not the person you are replying to. Russian did throw bodies at the problem and has shown callous disregard for the welfare of its soldiers. I feel like you're not really replying to the comment above.

At the start of the war there was plenty of meat being thrown into the trenches on the Ukraine side. Have you not seen any videos of men being press-ganged off the streets or in their homes? Or of the protesting wives of TDF units thrown into the trenches with virtually no training and only token weapons and ammo? (You can find plenty of both on Ukrainian Telegram channels.) If Ukraine is treating their soldiers bett…

Again, I feel like you're not really replying to the comment above. Or mine, really.

We are talking about the numbers being way off, and you are seemingly picking a bone with Ukraine. It’s like you are having an entirely separate and somewhat related discussion.

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FF just crashed immediately. Twice. Which kinda surprised me in a good way, because usually when it struggles for memory it just hangs there for a couple of minutes until it gets killed by the OS. Cannot remember it being killed that easily by another website.

Using FF on iPhone, did not have any problems.

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There are a couple of war peaks, wonder what the correlation is (why war went down)

War only goes down when the latest one killed the existing armies too effectively, so that it takes a generation until the armies can be replenished and the memory of the realities of war forgotten. Disease like the plague can also cause a reduction in war numbers since people have other things to worry about than conquering or destroying their neighbors.

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Again, you are confusing causalities (wounded and dead) with KIA (just the dead). That's why you are getting such different numbers. Its a pretty easy mistake to make and there are lots of media reports that make the same mistakes. PS Also, some numbers count civilians and others just count military. And usually civilian dead > military dead in most wars.

That last point (fortunately) does not apply to this conflict. In fact, the fraction of civilian deaths might be the lowest for any conflict with comparable casualties. I haven’t verified this, but would be interested if someone did.

It’s easy to see that is true given media reports of civilians deaths (lately has been ranging from a few to a dozen per day) compared to estimated military deaths (all sides seem to agree it’s in the thousands per day).
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