Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Peter Zeihan || The Wagner Group: Russia's Flunkies" video.
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@dieterdietert7232 Only their were not zero casualties. Take Galwan Valley: while soldiers carried firearms, due to decades of tradition designed to reduce the possibility of an escalation, agreements disallowed usage of firearms, but the Chinese side was reported to possess iron rods, clubs and batons wrapped in barbed wire and clubs embedded with nails. Hand-to-hand combat broke out, and the Indian soldiers called for reinforcements from a post about 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) away. Eventually, up to 600 men were engaged in combat using stones, batons, iron rods, and other makeshift weapons. The fighting, which took place in near-total darkness, lasted for up to six hours. Resulting in about twenty deaths on each side and many injuries and later deaths from injuries. I would think it would have been near the same if they held back and shot at each other with small arms across the valley. Later they reinstated the use of firearms.
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