Basically, Itse seems to have followed Noam Chomsky off a cliff of moral confusion, whereby the primary way (or really only way, based on this thread) to determine a nation's degree of moral blameworthiness for its actions internationally is to tally up the total body count. Intentions do not matter, policy grounds do not matter, just look at how many people were killed by your weapons and compare it to how many people were killed by other country X's weapons, and you'll be immediately able to judge which country is "worse". This sort of analysis isn't particularly rare, unfortunately.
This of course leaves aside the fact that we were, initially, talking about the threats presented by Putin's Russia right now, not trying to conduct a historical analysis of foreign policy nation by nation. Next we'll be castigating Mongolia for its actions in the 13th century, apparently...
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