By numbers US is probably worse but the level of cruelty from Russia is unmatched outside of terrorist organizations
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Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks agoBoth are bad, neither is worse than the US.
Just going by invasions and regime changes alone the US takes the cake. That’s before you get into the spreading crack into black communities, chemical weapons on civilians, drone strikes on children, ecological destruction, genocide enabling, etc etc.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Would it really be tho?
Like the US targets children and social gatherings to attack, tortures/rapes/murders innocent civilians in black sites, keeps a racial based underclass who they hook on drugs, violently assault from childhood, and lock up in record numbers to serve as legal slave labour. That’s pretty fucking cruel stuff.
dovahking@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also invades small countries on whim, votes against the well-being of humankind, meddle in other countries’ affairs, has been in war for more than 90% of it’s existence, never held itself accountable, experiments on its own citizens, and is ruled by a cabal of paedophiles.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
All true but I never seen videos o people being killed by sledgehammer to the head or castrated in cold blood with a blunt knife coming from the US.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
The US has a myriad of world famous serial killers, i’m sure you can find one with that modus operandi.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
How so? You’d have to bring up Tsarist Russia atrocities to match American ones. I for one can’t think of something more cruel than napalming villages in Vietnam, or dropping nukes on civilians in Japan, and that’s just a couple of examples in the vast bucket of wsr crimes of the US.
baines@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
i hate defending the US because it has had more direct bad impact on my life bit by scale of lost life alone i’d still argue Russia is still worse, and if we lump current China to not even that long ago China the numbers killed are not even close
the scale of China’s population just blows it allniut of proportion
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
Wow you’re truly stupid lmao.
Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
you sound like a nazi
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Idk what lost life you’re counting, because it’s pretty well known that civilian casualties in just the the Iraq war most likely dwarf Ukrainian losses.
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
ffs google, it is painful when i can tell people are not even trying and just mad at the US
i get it i do, US is doing bad shit but it’s obvious your not even trying to look
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh indeed thanks for telling me that I need to google your vague and in no way clarified idea of what Russia is doing, when I can read goddamn Russian language itself and am reading independent Russian-language media covering Russian reality, and know a whole lot more about it than you do.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
50+million chinese people and the ughyger genocided people would like to have a word with you.
m532@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Do you condemn Wihthe genocide?
Learn to spell
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
huh? write out your point like I’m 5 because it sounds like we agree and i’m confused