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shmerl[dead post] ◴[] No.39146070[source]
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1. giraffe_lady ◴[] No.39146240[source]
"Better" is hard to judge, but mosul was about ten months and resulted in 10k civilian deaths. This one is already several times that count in a much shorter time span.
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2. shmerl ◴[] No.39146418[source]
Iraqi army also lost almost half of their anti-terrorist Golden division in that battle, so that's possibly related.