Mitch McConell says the quiet part out loud.
Exact full quote from CNN:
“People think, increasingly it appears, that we shouldn’t be doing this. Well, let me start by saying we haven’t lost a single American in this war,” McConnell said. “Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons. So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead.”
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4085063
Fair, but those were volunteers. Obviously he is referring to Americans deployed by the government in some form, nobody died in the line of duty so to say.
Speaking as a civil serviceman, “we [the State] haven’t lost a single American in this war” is accurate. Speaking as an American, “we [the American people] haven’t lost a single American in this war” is inaccurate.
In addition to volunteers there’s the American journalist Brent Renaud, who was killed by Russian forces last year.