Fair enough on the casualties vs. deaths. I agree with your message that it's much more of a meat grinder especially how quickly those losses have added up compared to Vietnam.
Not trying to distract from your argument, but where are you getting that 325K number? Even on the low estimates, the current 2022 war has at least 400K and potentially well over a million in Russian losses according to the (~800 reference) Wiki Article. Most things I've seen estimate around 1.1-1.2M realistically in losses.
Was this just losses for the portion Ukraine just took back? If so, that seems high?
No skin in this game, but am thinking it's not about using an archive link vs. direct link and more questioning DailyBeast as a news source. I could be wrong, though....
Microsoft steeply lowered expectations on the AI Sales team, though they have denied this since they got pummelled in their quarterly and there's been a lot of news about how investors are not happy with all the circular AI investments pumping those stocks. When the bubble pops (and all signs point to that), investors will flee. You'll see consolidation, buy-outs, hell maybe even some bullshit bailouts, but ultimately it has to be a sustainable model and that means it will cost developers or they will be pummeled with ads (probably both).
There will be some more spending to make sure a good chunk of CEOs "add value" (FOMO) and then a critical juncture where AI spending contracts sharply when they continue to see no returns, accelerated if the US economy goes tits up. Then the domino's fall.
Those kids got more style in their fucking pinkies than I got in my whole body.