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I'm sure USA armies have killed more people than Hitler's armies.

You have no conception of how big and bad WWII was. The Russian casualties (25 million+) alone dwarf US casualties committed many times over.

You obviously have no idea how bloody the fighting between Germany and Russia was.

While US made critical contribution in WW2, it was Russian blood that sucked German army white.

> ... it was Russian blood that sucked German army white.

Interestingly, the Russian invasion of Manchuria (i.e. their entry into the Pacific theater) also played a much more significant role in Japan's surrender than most of us were taught in history class. The US had been firebombing Japanese cities for months, so the atom bombs, while devastating, were not an order of magnitude escalation, whereas the Russian invasion certainly was.

Well, you're comparing an entire country's history to one leader. Not apples for apples in terms of time spans.

Even ignoring this, I doubt that the sum of all US caused casualties can approach WWII USSR losses caused by German forces.

US casualty is no where close to what Germans killed in Russia.

I'm currently debating if this ludicrous comparison deserves my time to debunk this lunacy.

I sure hope that HN readers see the many faults in the logic and morality of such a statement.

No. Since WW2 was the most deadly conflict in human history.

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