> Dunno, the US pacified Germany and Japan w/o totally destroying them and deporting people to Siberia like Russia does.
So you pick examples from more than 70 years ago. That's how good American PR is.
> I'd pick US hegemony over Russia's anytime, thank you.
Would you prefer being deported to Siberia or blown apart by a drone?
> Russians only ”solve” problems with violence, huge massacres and war crimes.
Yet in the current war in Ukraine they are portrayed as being weak for not carpet bombing like the US would in one of their 'peace-keeping' missions.
> Human life has no price for Russian dictators.
If you believe the narrative that the recent US wars in the Middle East were about setting up democracies, then they have completely failed and led to the needless loss of millions of lives. I'm not convinced human life has a price for American presidents, but I guess they say that it does, so it must be true.
Yes, the US has failed to set up democracies in the Middle East and North Africa. The loss of millions of lifes, however, is mainly the doing of ISIL, Russia, who reduced Aleppo to rubble, just like Grozny and also other factions. The US isn't doing carpet bombing anymore or turning entire cities to rubble or throwing napalm and Agent Orange from airplanes. The effects of a recent US war can be seen in Serbia.
yeah they also stopped dropping nuclear bombs on japan. two was enough i guess
> The effects of a recent US war can be seen in Serbia
you mean the child cancer cases as a result of using depleted uranium during bombing campaign which was aimed at the country's economic infrastructure and TV stations ... and Chinese embasy ?
Have a read of the following, then tell me if you would like to live in an area that's been contaminated with depleted uranium:
> Depleted uranium (DU) is an emerging environmental pollutant that is introduced into the environment primarily by military activity. While depleted uranium is less radioactive than natural uranium, it still retains all the chemical toxicity associated with the original element. In large doses the kidney is the target organ for the acute chemical toxicity of this metal, producing potentially lethal tubular necrosis. In contrast, chronic low dose exposure to depleted uranium may not produce a clear and defined set of symptoms. Chronic low-dose, or subacute, exposure to depleted uranium alters the appearance of milestones in developing organisms. Adult animals that were exposed to depleted uranium during development display persistent alterations in behavior, even after cessation of depleted uranium exposure. Adult animals exposed to depleted uranium demonstrate altered behaviors and a variety of alterations to brain chemistry. Despite its reduced level of radioactivity evidence continues to accumulate that depleted uranium, if ingested, may pose a radiologic hazard. The current state of knowledge concerning DU is discussed.
> Would you prefer being deported to Siberia or blown apart by a drone?
Russian way of solving that is not what you wrote. It is more: blow you up with a drone and deport all your family to Siberia.
I've lived with Russia shadow all my life, my country was multiple times invaded by it, tore apart, occupied - and this was happening over centuries.
If you think that what US is doing is in any way comparable you must live in a safe bubble somewhere in US (or in Russia) and have the freedom to write anything. It is your freedom that people in Russia don't (and never did), or my parents didn't have.
So you pick examples from more than 70 years ago. That's how good American PR is.
> I'd pick US hegemony over Russia's anytime, thank you.
Would you prefer being deported to Siberia or blown apart by a drone?
> Russians only ”solve” problems with violence, huge massacres and war crimes.
Yet in the current war in Ukraine they are portrayed as being weak for not carpet bombing like the US would in one of their 'peace-keeping' missions.
> Human life has no price for Russian dictators.
If you believe the narrative that the recent US wars in the Middle East were about setting up democracies, then they have completely failed and led to the needless loss of millions of lives. I'm not convinced human life has a price for American presidents, but I guess they say that it does, so it must be true.