Right?
Having some knowledge of WWII history and the bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan, and having recently been to Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, this was *not* massive.
Most people don’t understand that none of the very limited number of A-bombs were used on Tokyo because Tokyo had already been largely destroyed by B-29 incendiary raids. Already gone by the time an A-bomb was available.
The death toll for World War I totaled some 20 million, about 100,000 per week.
The death toll for World War II estimated at 75 million, around 250,000 per week.
So, nearly 100 million combined.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has produced circa 1.5 million casualties, of which maybe 400,000 deaths.
So, comparing the Russia-Ukraine War to World Wars is a little ridiculous, except, except...
The brutality and senselessness of WWI trench warfare is almost beyond comprehension today, and yet.. that's just what we're seeing in eastern Ukraine, along a front nearly 1,500 miles long, with daily Russian "meat wave" assaults on Ukrainian lines, drone & missile attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
Combined casualties in the range of 10,000 per week, of which circa 2,500 killed.
The totals are around 1.5 million casualties, perhaps 400,000 killed.
That puts Ukraine as the third most deadly international war (as opposed to civil war) since WWII, falling after: