Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by marcell on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:32AM (#30510832)

> I am a US citizen, and sometimes I am really ashamed of my country

Is there any country in history with comparable economic and military power to the US that has a "cleaner" record in terms of "bad stuff"? I'm specifying comparable power to specifically exclude tiny nations that never had the capacity to do "bad stuff."

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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by ohgodplsno on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:13AM (#30511120)

None of your potential candidates have ever nuked any other country, which in terms of war crimes rates pretty damn high.

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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by kuboble on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:33AM (#30511818)

I would still rate it a magnitude below https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by pcmoney on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:24AM (#30515262)

At the time Nuking a country wasn’t a war crime. Also fire bombing raids on other cities (eg Dresden) were actually worse than the nuclear bombing. Additionally it could be argued that the nuclear option actually killed fewer civilians than the alternative.

Strongly recommend Dan Carlins podcast on the rise and fall of imperial japan to learn more.

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