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Отправлено: 2020-07-09 8:09 Zacharycearf (Отправить почту)
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The sunday inquisition round one with this week's panelist is Dan Rather, co-anchor of CBS' CBS This Morning with Bob Schieffer and co-host of this week's A&E reality drama series The Last Man On Earth.
The Last Man on Earth is the story of how an abandoned American army base turns into one of the worst conflicts in U.S. history, and of the soldiers it sent to its death. It tells the story through the lives and stories of the soldiers who fought and suffered there, the men, wives and kids they lost and the men they found. It also explores the tragic nature of war, and the cost of war.
When it comes to the story of a desert fighting unit, the First and Second World War are considered among the deadliest in history. The battle was so bitter that at one point more than 1 million Americans fought for the Axis powers during the war. One of the largest battles in the First World War — which killed over 4,000 American soldiers — took place at the Somme River. Another was at Leningrad, while at Larnaca, Greece, a Nazi-looted tank bomb that exploded in a Russian town left an estimated 5,000 dead or wounded, including 200 young Americans.
At any given time, between 60,000 and 70,000 American and British soldiers died in fighting during the World War II and Korea Wars. Some 7 million had lived at home in World War II, while another 9.8 million had served as active duty.
The last five decades of war have brought us an age of conflict that has cost a staggering $4.1 trillion, and nearly 100,000 American and British soldiers have been killed. The United States has more war deaths each year than all other nations combined, and is almost always at the forefront of the world's conflicts, having waged more wars over the last two decades than any other nation. It has also spent an astounding $3.2 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But of course, not everybody loves a war. Not everyone likes wars. The American people are more willing to tolerate peace than conflict. And we've seen just how the world has responded to the wars that Americans and Britons fought during the last two decades.
The cost of war
Today, the United States spends $2.8 trillion a year on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the course of one year, American taxpayers spend nearly $600 billion to fight all five of those wars, and a massive $1.5 trillion on a small fraction of them — Operation Inherent Resolve.
In Iraq alone, more than 5,000 Americans were killed. And the same number of soldiers who were killed are stil
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