"The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs puts this staggering number in perspective: since the war in Gaza began on Putin’s birthday in 2023, more journalists have been killed than the combined total during the US Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War — including related conflicts in Cambodia and Laos — the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s, and the war in Afghanistan, post-9/11."