if another nation killed 1% of all Americans we& #39;d be at war 4 months ago
Over 407k US soldiers were killed in WW2. To be generous, let& #39;s round up to 500k and then take the US& #39;s population in 1945 (rounded up to 140 million).
500,000/140,000,000 = a whopping 0.36%
500,000/140,000,000 = a whopping 0.36%
How about all casualties (killed and wounded) of US military in WW2? Okay - rounded up, that& #39;s about 1,100,000, which works out to a whole 0.79% of the US& #39;s 1945 population.
All these people who are scoffing about a 1% mortality rate wouldn& #39;t - or rather, shouldn& #39;t - scoff at 1% of Americans killed by Nazis, fascist Italians, or Imperial Japanese. Then again, I guess some Nazis are & #39;good& #39; people nowadays, right?
US WW2 Casualties from https://www.nationalww2museum.org/
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