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Shooting the buffalos to starve them to death.
The treatment of the Ingush comes close but the death marches of the US sound worse.
Overall there are hardly any natives in the east of the US even though that's the fertile land where they must have lived.
What are the Russian ones? What does top Iraq? All the wars are pushed by the US if you look closely. UAE won't have acted in Sudan without the US. Congo and Ruanda is for western resources.
Directly in the US I would say that the black prison population and the gerrimandering and school financing can be seen as a genocide. There is also the health care system against the poor.
I am not a fan of discrediting comments for coming from .ml.
Yeah, I noticed already yesterday that it looks similar to the ethnic map of the Russia. But the difference is that USA has toned down its behaviour, the Russia a has not. Shooting the buffalos to starve a nation to death is pretty much Holodomor.
First Chechen war killed 35 000 to 50 000 civilians, the second one something like 25 000 to 35 000. And civilians and soldiers altogether, they were about 150 000 to 300 000 dead in the two Chechen wars. Plus a lot of wounded, and Groznyi got completely levelled in the way Bakhmut was.
And then there are of course the victims of Mariupol, who number in 15 000 to 25 000.
USA's war in Iraq cost lives of about 25 000 human lives, most of which were civilians. If we add all excess mortality caused by the war, then we get very much higher numbers for both Iraq and Ukraine.
Then, the Russian ones beside these actual big-scale slaughters in Russian-type warfare, there's the ongoing genocides where people are not murdered, but cultures are eradicated. They were ongoing already in 1990's, not only now.
But also: There is no good reason in caring about whether USA's numbers are bigger than those of the Russia. Your neighbour rob and kill five people does not mean you are allowed to rob and kill one person.
USA has done a much smaller amount of evil deeds in the last century or half a century, but even if it had done more, that's irrelevant. A big bad thing done to bystanders does not mean a smaller bad thing done to bystanders is suddenly okay.
I don't mean all comments coming from .ml. A lot of people start there and then change for instances where human rights have a meaning. A person is not automatically bad just for being on .ml. If they were, they would be bad even after moving elsewhere, would they not?
But you don't need to write many times in a community on .ml to notice that their admins' and moderators' values are strongly opposed to human rights. I obviously do not appreciate people who support opposers of human rights. I believe in that our thoughts align.
Of course. The difference is that Russia hasn't pushed the US to do the Iraq war, Syria or Afghanistan. At most it can be said that Russia's influence on Syria to deny the pipeline from Qatar made the US intervene. That would have maintained the status quo.
For Chechnya I am not sure but the US were fully aware that Ukraine is like Cuba to Russia which btw is also suppression. The intervention of Nuland is documented. The deaths can as well be counted on the US as a sacrifice that they were willing to make.
To white people, if the political influencing in the world and things like the drug pandemic in the US, and Russia, don't count. The cleansing in Indonesia of Communists was caused by the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366 . A bit more than 50 years, like Bangladesh, but isn't that enough to make Russia the lesser evil?
I don't think that they argue against human rights. The problem comes from them arguing that things like the Holodomor were justified.
They align but it's a trick question. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Rights_in_Islam Human rights are not as fundamental as they are presented.
To oppose human rights, there is Guantanamo and the share of the the black prison population. And still, the US remain the champion of human rights.
They removed a comment of mine because I said that putting Uyghurs in concentration camps is not okay. That is arguing against human rights. A very crude kind of arguing, as outright deleting a comment is not a very constructive argumentational device, but arguing all the same.
Here you are wrong. And also, I think after this comment of yours, I can save myself the work of having this conversation with you.
How does that oppose the concept of human rights?
Now really. It is not. Just look at goddamn Trump and what he's doing. I will not be able to see whatever you reply, because after going through all this "US has done horrible things" you still fail to see that USA is not a champion of human rights. Was a nice conversation until this post of yours. Bye.
You fail to see sarcasm.
If you haven't blocked me and are able to stomach where I think that you are wrong, please let me know.
It was indeed a nice conversation. I hope that it continues. I have learned many interesting facts.