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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Broad estimates of US war victims range up to 12 million (a liberal estimate), whereas the Nazis killed over 13 million through mass killings alone (eg the Holocaust + exterminated minorities). The Soviet Union alone lost 20 to 27 million depending on who you ask.

In addition to the 500k-millions of native peoples and hundreds of tribes the US systematically nearly eradicated, lets take just a few more examples.

  • Vietnam: 1.5M killed
  • Laos: 300k
  • Iraq: 1M
  • Indonesia: 500k-1M
  • Korea: 500k
  • Japan: 200k-1M in civilian bombings

And I haven't even started on operation condor and latin america yet.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And US America is still going, the worst is yet to come

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The real tragedy is that of the victims who got stuck in the middle between two doctrines hell-bent on global domination.

The case of Imperial Japan is equivalent to that of Nazi Germany. A fascist regime that saw millions intentionally slaughtered and worked to death across Asia.

Here are some links for reading more about the killings related to:

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

This popped up in my feed today: