The  Russo-Ukrainian War  is now in a stalemate: Started in February of 2014. Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014. In February of 2022, Russian launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Some history. Crimea was part of the Crimean Khanate from 1441 until it was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783. In the Russian Revolution of 1917, Ukraine was absorbed by the Russian Empire  as a constituent republic Ukraine is the second-largest ( 1.7 times bigger than Germany ) European country after Russia. In 1922 the Soviet Union was formed with various  union republics , and until its dissolution in 1991, varied from 4 to 16 countries, always including Ukraine. Map of the Union Republics from 1956 to 1991, as numbered by the Soviet Constitution: 1.   Russia , 2.   Ukraine , 3.   Belarus , 4.   Uzbekistan , 5.   Kazakhstan , 6.   Georgia , 7.   Azerbaijan , 8.   Lithuania , 9.   Moldavia , 10.   Latvia , 11.   Kyrgyzstan , 12.   Tajikistan , 13.   Armenia , 14.   Turkmenistan , 15.   Estonia In

Memorial Day is a federal holiday that honors and mourns American military personnel who died while performing their duties in service to the United States Armed Forces. The USA has been in 79 wars since 1776 .   Click on that to see the details, but in every one of them, military life was lost.  Total casualties ( deaths and wounded ) of the major ones: American Revolutionary  50,000 1812                                     20,000 Mexican-American            17,435 Civil                                 1,129,418 WWI                                 320,518 WWII                             1,076,245 Korean                             128,650 Vietnam                            211,454 Afghanistan                       22,266 Iraq                                     36,710 It is estimated that approximately 2.4% of military combat deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq were female . For all of the 79 wars, 1,354,664 were killed and 1,498,240 wounded.  As a percent of deaths relative to the nation