Just neighbours, otherwise people might draw awkward comparisons to certain other warmongering nations.

But then again, American soldiers are not dying in that war the way Russian do. That would be different in war against neighbhood nation where you cant hide purely behind technology.

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JumpCrisscross 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> awkward comparisons to certain other warmongering nations

What Russia is doing in Ukraine is closer to America in Vietnam or Israel in Gaza than anything even Trump has done recently. And I doubt you’ll find many on this forum defending even the latter.

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Muromec 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Casualty count for entire Vietnam campaign for US is like two weeks at the current burndown rate for r-sia

	▲	tomrod 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why are people avoiding spelling "Russia"?

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robbiep 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s reasonably close to the economic murder/suicide the US has caused with its rubbish crack at Iran

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saidnooneever 3 hours ago | parent [-]

dont forget afghanistan, Iran Libya, Syria, etc etc. -_- none of these countries is doing well after their "liberation" or after their 'terrorists got bombed' or whatever wording (killed like dogs?) the current leader will have for it.

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mschuster91 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> dont forget afghanistan, Iran Libya, Syria

Out of these four, at least Syria is better off. Everything, literally everything is better than what the Assad regime was. The gruesomeness of Assad and his regime is on a level not seen since 1945.

Afghanistan was an utter failure of all of Western societies. Yes, we provided a generation worth of women with access to schools. But we never provided a way for Afghanistan as a country to stand on its own feet, instead we looked away while one half of the military didn't exist on paper and the other half raped children for funsies (look up "bacha bazi").

Libya... now that is mostly upon us Europeans. Ghaddafi, I'm glad this prick is gone, but again we didn't do anything to meaningfully help Libya grow, and by the time Putin began supporting oppositional warlords, the game was lost.

And Iran... oh dear god what a mess, dating back to the history of the US using Kurds for their aims and then letting them to die without support. This entire shitshow was a disaster from start to finish, even if the idea was noble - the Mullahs slaughtered tens of thousands of protestors the start of this year, it would have been incredibly unethical to just stand aside again.

	▲	fn-mote 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> even if the idea was noble The idea of nobly saving people is just “think of the children” on the nation-state level. It sounds great but gets used for every politician’s own ends.