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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (20 children)

Russian bombs are bad not because of the flag, but because they consistently target civilians indiscriminately. Plus the whole invading a neighbor, murdering the people and stealing the land.

Say what you want about Bush, even that war criminal didn't go as far.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    Say what you want about Bush, even that war criminal didn't go as far.

    Genuinely not defending Russia here, but Dubya's pretext for invading Iraq and Afghanistan was if anything even flimsier than the "justification" for the Ukraine invasion, and that war killed way more people, civilians and not.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The estimates I've seen are 300.000 killed in Iraq. There's more Russians killed alone than that, let alone Ukrainian military and civilian casualties...

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Ok, some in Yemen and Somalia too, but Wikipedia claims the cost of life of the gwot was 4.5 million, and I've seen credible estimates as high as 6.

    And I think in this situation we'd only really be comparing Ukrainian casualties to them.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago*

    Just 15172 civilians killed in Ukraine, according to UN, though. About 40k injured. That's the lower estimate, yes, but, in comparison, the USA has committed more than 100k confirmed civilians kills in just Iraq alone.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    and that war killed way more people, civilians and not.

    No it fucking didn't. The completely delusional claim of yours is a good example of why this blanket statement is so stupid.

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    The US invasion of Iraq killed about 300k people. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has killed about 500k people.

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