Now that I'm reading this thread, I realise why I stopped following MES after a short period of time. I have trouble following online doomers.

There really isn't anything helpful about doomerism. All it does is help your enemy's propaganda like @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml said. This might be off-topic but this kind of thinking from people who are like "this country is on its own and there is no mass movement protesting this act of aggression against this country" is pretty insulting to these people agitating against imperialist aggression. It's also self-serving to act like this when you're encouraging doomerism instead of revolutionary optimism (looking at you, BE).

Like cfgaussian also said, the minister is probably referring to the hundreds of deaths and injured suffered by the US when talking about casualties. Of course the material losses the US has suffered are also staggering.