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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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porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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.

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- Tja@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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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  - porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
    
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror
    
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  - drath@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Just 15172 civilian 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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ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

Any point you might’ve had about land acquisition, separatism, or imperialism, is pretty hard invalidated by this comparison. Like, why add Bush as a qualifier?

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- Tja@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  To prevent tankies from accusing me of US bias.
  
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  - Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not helping your credibility
    
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