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Originally Posted by activeStick
Yeah, I'll never understand people who try to prop the West up as examples of sparing civilians when there's tons of examples of the opposite. The Laos example is an excellent one as they are still slowly looking for and detonating mines left in their country where civilians live. One of my ex's family was from Laos and hearing the stories from her grandparents about the West and the things they did and how they left their homeland is heartbreaking. Every country has done terrible, terrible things during war.
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Correct, and the USA has done more bad things than most.
Every major power in history is guilty of the worst type of atrocities. There are no privileged positions.
Not to minimize in any way the awful situation in Ukraine, but Russia would have to carry this on for a lot longer to even get close to equalling the damage the US did in Afghanistan and Iraq.