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Americans were mostly against Vietnam because a bunch of their family and friends were coming back in bodybags
I don’t think any amount of Ukrainian casualties would make any big difference in American perception
The likely western reaction to realising the scope of the carnage would probably be an even more fervent war craze: “Evil Putler genocided a hundred thousand innocent Ukrainians! We must give Ukraine a death star so they can guard our Aryan garden from the Asiatic hordes!”
Americans were mostly against Vietnam because a bunch of their family and friends were coming back in bodybags
And because the draft was more “impartial” in the sense that middle-class white people were sent to die instead of the “volunteer” military we have now where recruiters target poor and disenfranchised minorities to become the foot soldiers fed to the meat grinder while the officers are still upper-middle class college graduates (especially those from the places like the Naval Academy, West Point, or the Air Force Academy).
We saw with the second Iraq War that Americans didn’t really care too much because the well-off upper middle class people just sent their kids to college while the poor black and white people got sent to die in Iraq.
Like you said, Ukranian casualties don’t even matter so I guess this is the evolution of imperial warfare (impartial draft > volunteer army > foreign proxies).
Actually the draft made the composition of the army much more poor/diverse in racial backgrounds. The enlisted army being entirely or primarily poor people in America is a myth and complete pro-soldier cope. American soldiers are richer than the average American, and they primarily come from a caste of upper middle class career warriors from career warrior families.
