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I'm legitimately curious if you are asking this because you think only Americans kill other country's civilians during conflict or if that's the only country whose murder of innocent civilians bothers you.
BTW, it’s not only the murder of civilians that makes the US military so evil. It’s also the sheer scope of brutality, in terms of size and time that the US has perpetrated with not only direct military action, proxy military actions, and economic and civil violence that is facilitated by the threat of military action.
Other people being shits has no bearing on how big a shit you are.
So I was right. You are ok with murder at a certain scale and efficiency.
Beep Boop. You're ok with murder.
Well that literally the opposite of what I said, but okay.
I'd hazard a guess that the US kills a lot more civilians than a typical country.
Russia is not a typical country..
Ok, so I gather from the responses, it's ok to murder citizens if you come in under an atypical country's murder count.
From which response do you get the sense that it would be ok? I only see explanations why this discussion is about the US.
It's a gift.
We're just exceptional at it.
We're a country of terrorists. As you say, we've streamlined the terrorism.
We're just not the only country of terrorists and my original question to the OP stands. I couldn't find his post where he asked why Russia's populace weren't up in arms over the wholesale slaughter of Ukrainian civilians. I have to assume that there's something about the US that bothers him more than the murdered civilians.
This sounds very "you're not allowed to discipline your child until you've disciplined every other naughty child in the world."
Intentional misinterpretation on your part does not warrant me needing to explain further.
Says the one who's intentionally misinterpreting almost every response in this thread.