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For post cold war times, Russia has a hard time winning this selected comparison. Italy is active in Libya, Belgium has caused many and is still causing death with the Hutu Tutsi separation. Canada hosts many mining companies that will do stuff that is not in the news. The Fins weren't too nice to the Sami.
The Ukraine war makes Russia the winner. Yet the Iraq war alone has created more death than Russia has caused until the Ukraine war and may still be leading in total. As mentioned above, excluding the US is cheating.
The cold war is difficult to judge. E.g. I think the USSR was asked to help in Afghanistan. So are Russians to blame for the deaths? Again, if the US is included, the numbers pale.
To me, the Russian origin is not fully clear. Stalin, a Georgian, ordered huge amounts of deportations. Breschnew, with Ukrainian roots, ordered the tanks into Czechoslovakia. My guess is that the Russians who were settled weren't asked too much either.
Nevertheless this has led to Russian dominance and weakened national identities. It's understandable that the countries don't want further Russian influence.
The historic joke is that the cultural loss from TikTok reels, pop culture and globalized working conditions will be far bigger.
Yeah, Finn's behaviour with the Sámi has not ben very nice at all. I am happy that we've largely changed directions, even though we still do weird shit, such as the authorities in Helsinki deciding who is allowed to count as Sámi and who not, ignoring the opinion of the actual Sámi people... But our behaviour is from a different planet compared to what the Russian Empire, USSR and the Russian Federation have been doing and is doing. There is no genocide of the Sámi people going on. Regarding Canadian mining companies I do not know enough to understand what you are referring to.
Iraqi war caused only half a million to one million casualties. How is that worse than what the Russian Empire and USSR have done to their colonies? And what the Russia has been continuing since? Even if the Russia has toned that behaviour down from the Soviet times, it is still being a horrible colonialist. And it's the only European colonial power that has not given freedom to most of its colonies. France, England and Portugal still have some colonies here and there, but even they have let the most go. The Russia/USSR let less than one quarter of its colonized territories free in 1991. And even in those areas it continued the same behaviour France is known for in its old colonies.
There are smaller regime changes for mining rights. Canada also has their natives. Don't those natives have less than what natives in Russia have?
I was comparing newer times. Otherwise you have to look at native Americans. My impression is that they had it worse.
In Ukraine there are far fewer casualities. Still not good, but in comparison the US looks worse.
Same for Britain while the US took over the Spanish empire.
Russia is an empire. The problem for Russia is that they can't dissolve and regroup like the EU or with the EU because the US would grab everything and treat it like South America.
People believe in American freedom while the poor there work two jobs and don't have dental care. People ignore recent American atrocities while they remember all the Russian ones.
Thanks to Venezuela it should be clear that there is some reason for keeping the empire together. Of course that doesn't justify any genociding.
Here, BTW, I want to ask you:
Why do you think the situations of the nations colonized by the Russia would be any worse under US rule? I mean, if they are ever liberated from the Russian rule, I would strongly oppose anything else happening to them than them getting full sovereignty, like for example Algeria did. But even if you are right and they do end up under US, rule, why would that be any worse for the locals than the current Russian rule? I believe it would still be very bad, but much less bad than now. USA was behaving the same towards its colonized native populations some century or 1½ centuries ago as the Russia is behaving to its native populations now, and the native Americans' situation in contemporary USA is definitely not something to celebrate, but the contemporary USA is nevertheless definitely treating the locals better (or maybe you'd prefer the phrasing: less badly) than the Russia is treating the native populations of territories ruled by it. And I really do think that the US would treat the colonized Siberians much nicer than it treats native Americans
If the Russian colonies somehow end up from Russian rule under US rule, then that's very sad, but it's still an improvement for their rights. Why, precisely, are you actually arguing against that?
As written in the other comment, east USA.
That should be worrisome, not reason for hope.
The US is not a white project. The whiteness won't protect the Asian natives. Whiteness was arbitrarily extended to have a majority identity to supress the rest while not having to share the majority of resources which could be kept to the elite.
Are there native cities like Grosny in the US?