Anti-Climacus

LINK: I imagine that Chris Bertram finds this to be a refutation of something:

"Thank Ivan. It does not disparage the brave men who died in the North African desert or the cold forests around Bastogne to recall that 70% of the Wehrmacht is buried not in French fields but on the Russian steppes. In the struggle against Nazism, approximately 40 "Ivans" died for every "Private Ryan". Scholars now believe that as many as 27 million Soviet soldiers and citizens perished in the second world war."

Let us not forget, after all, that authoritarian regimes with no respect for human life whatsoever are quite willing to throw away even more of those lives for a cause that happened to be, by the by, good. All the more reason to be proud of the willingness of the US not to throw away their people’s lives unnecessarily.