2026-06-25
1 小时 51 分钟It's always a kind of sketchy proposition to cite casualty figures in the middle of a war,
because if there's one thing combatants governments lie about, it's how many people have died.
You could almost never get a straight answer.
Everybody lies about it.
They're lying about it now.
Four and a half years in, we really have no idea how many Russians,
Ukrainians or people from other countries have died in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
And we definitely don't know with precision how many people have died in the war with Iran.
But we thought it'd be interesting to pull up the official numbers to the extent they exist.
We don't know, by the way, with total certainty how many Americans have died,
the official numbers maybe 16. Is that true?
We hope it's no more.
Every death is a tragedy, but we just don't know.
But there are official numbers, and so, again, just as an exercise, as something
that might reveal a deeper truth, we pulled up the numbers a minute ago.
So here are the numbers.
On the Iranian side, the official number is about 3,600, 3,664, about that.
Iranians dead.
Combatants and civilians, majority civilians, as is true in every war, 3,600.
But that's not the biggest total of dead in a country in the last three months