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[-] antisoumerde@quokk.au 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If we use the victim of Communism counting methodology they killed at least 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 people

At least

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 days ago

Isn't that just the list of wars involving the United States

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

Almost entirely overlapping, especially since many of NATO's ops are in Africa, when it's focus is supposed to be limited to Europe.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

Rule 1... do they think it's racist to be against NATO now lol. Probably including "anti-white" in their definition of bigotry.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago

This is not what you asked, but the only resource that immediate comes to mind is countercurrents' list of every invasion the US has carried out compiled in 2013: https://www.countercurrents.org/polya050713.htm

I'm not sure if anyone's compiled what you're asking for. Of course the death toll of the US directly both contains events that pre-date NATO, and NATO contains countries other than the US.

That's nearly impossible to answer:

  • Are only NATO operations included?
  • How would combined operations be counted (Afghanistan was under a wider UN umbrella)?
  • What's even the civilian definition?
[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

Yes, specifically NATO operations, not necessarily ones that NATO members took part in.

A civilian means a non-combatant.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Also what counts as a civilian killed by NATO as opposed to a civilian killed in a war NATO was involved in but who killed them is unclear or it wasn't NATO?

But we do know that the USA has opened fire on civilians before with them as the target and there were no hostile forces around.

[-] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

About 350 thousand according to this source whe you can find a list and a very conservative death count: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202307/10/WS64ab6988a310bf8a75d6e3a2.html

The most deadly NATO intervention is the Iraq war, in October 2006 the Lancet estimated the following:

Three misattributed clusters were excluded from the final analysis; data from 1849 households that contained 12 801 individuals in 47 clusters was gathered. 1474 births and 629 deaths were reported during the observation period. Pre-invasion mortality rates were 5·5 per 1000 people per year (95% CI 4·3–7·1), compared with 13·3 per 1000 people per year (10·9–16·1) in the 40 months post-invasion. We estimate that as of July, 2006, there have been 654 965 (392 979–942 636) excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2·5% of the population in the study area. Of post-invasion deaths, 601 027 (426 369–793 663) were due to violence, the most common cause being gunfire

https://web.archive.org/web/20150907130701/http://brusselstribunal.org/pdf/lancet111006.pdf

https://brusselstribunal.org/pdf/lancet111006.pdf

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Nice, the top link is a good list, although it feels like there are a lot of interventions are missing.

I've also heard the estimates for total casualties of the US/NATO war on Iraq to be ~1M people, but that could be including other deaths related from the infrastructure collapse caused by the war.

[-] Bazell@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That is a way too broad range of variables to calculate properly. Include specifications.

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