• eran_morad@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    others react in kind.

    Jesus Christ, dude. The russian empire predates the American state. They’ve been subjugating client states for a long, long time. They’ve been undermining the free will of countless Eurasian peoples for centuries. And they’re more active in that arena now than they were back in the old days.

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      No need to be belligerent with commonly known facts. Still the 100+ year global hegemonic run of the US far exceeds the Eurasian hegemony of the Russian empire in terms of lives lost, economic impact, and ecological loss.

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          The Holomodor is truly an horrific genocide of the Ukrainian people caused by the Soviets.

          The US has perpetrated or backed the following genocides:

          • The Native American genocide
          • African and African American genocide in the US
          • The Palestinian genocide
          • The Bangladeshi genocide
          • The Guatemalan genocide
          • The Yemeni genocide

          Not even getting into the mass death caused by American sanctions.

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            Are we going back to the 1600-1800s? If so I think the list of Eurasian/Russian (in whatever form) fuckery and murder is quite long as well.

            Probably best not to take high ground on that

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                So let’s not stand on the idea of one country “far exceeding” another, when that claim is anything but clear cut.

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                    No, I saw high grounding, and called it out by example.

                    You said 'far exceeds" and that’s a silly goose thing to say