The Cost of War

The horrible war in the Ukraine has cost at least 900 civilian lives. Often the civilians suffer more than the armies.

What did surprise me was when I looked into civilian casualties in other wars.

WW2
Twice as many civilians died in World War II than did members of the military. Current estimates place military deaths between 21 million and 25.5 million people.

WW1
Total number of deaths includes 9.7 million military personnel and about 10 million civilians.

What did shock me was the civilian casulties in the Iraq war.

The Iraq Body Count project documents 185,000–208,000 violent civilian deaths through February 2020 in their table.

United States, Denmark, United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland. were all involved in that war.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/07/u...

It does amaze me when I see news items with shock and outrage about civilian deaths in the Ukraine. (quite rightly) Where were they in during the Iraq war? Is it just more meaningful to us because the Ukrainians look like us?

Many of our countries and governments have blood on their hands.