Probably not confirmed, I don't know how they would be able to confirm them when not even the Russians seems to count or even remove their dead from the battlefield. I guess it's estimates by the US intelligence based on information directly from the Ukrainians and indirect information gathered from the Russian side.
Can't really comfirm that, it's counted via brigades which are destroyed and there's usually confirmed amount of fighters in one brigade.
What tactics would that be?
Bombing civilians.
I dont see any relevance to Ukraine. Although one thing seems true about Afghani people, they really didn't care.
Maybe not on the same scale, but from the perspective of those bombed, not sure how much difference it makes. Civilian areas are/were regularly bombed and thousands died. Their hatred towards the US is understandable and legitimate.
Order No. 227(Not one step back) was never really used on a big scale. It was a order aimed at commanders and not at normal soldiers which is a common tactic in many armies throughout history.
Yeah, I've just spent a couple of hours reading about that. Funnily enough, Brave heart was quoted as being more historically accurate
Was just in Vietnam and they call it the American War.
They aren’t that anti-American in Southeast Asia. The actually would rather not even discuss the shiity things the US government has done. The UK on the other hand is probably the most anti-American place I‘ve visited recently
The younger general public does not care either way, but governments do. Most of them were/are tyrants that have some relations with China and Russia and would spout anti-American rhetoric most of the time, despite knowing that China is usually up to no good for their country in the long run. But they have to keep their power there and use the "keeping closer to the nearest enemy" stuff. At least, that's how it's been for the past half-century in Burma.
I know. Historically there isn't a thing right.
I won't go into too much detail here because this is a UA thread. I was addressing how the governments of Southeast Asian countries were not particularly warm to the U.S. for what it has done to them in the past and because China is very close to them geographically. In terms of fighting communism, Burma had to suffer some of the burden, as did most Southeast Asian countries at the time—though not as severely as those mentioned, and it is part of the reason why the opium trade in that area became infamous for decades after that. You can type "Kuomintang in Burma" in Google and read a bit about it. In terms of how messed up the politics are, Burma is up there with any of them.
That's what decades of propaganda will do to a simple mind. No matter how horrific and abysmal the situation is, they still don't see who is really responsible for all their misery. A people of modern slaves.
