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You are misremembering. Not really your fault, if you're american like me you were only exposed to absurd quantities of propaganda. Worth looking into what things the US did again you'll probably be pretty upset

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I found some isolated incidents of war crimes by the US in Iraq. There's nothing like command sanctioned massacring of civilians like the Russians are doing in Ukraine. Can you provide some more info?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#Iraq_...

I think it’s a bit of a dodge to say ‘the US followed the rules!’ when the entire premise for the Iraq war was willfully fabricated.

the known number of civilian deaths from various direct or indirect war actions (i.e. bombing etc.) is around 200.000, with around 10-20k being attributed to the U.S by most estimates.

russia is getting closer every day but they'll take a while to reach it yet. but they are comparable numbers.

Russia’s numbers are only lower because they’ve largely been defeated.

If Russia had not been pushed away from Kyiv as dramatically as they were then their numbers would be a lot worse.

Also, Ukraine has better public transport, etc. and a functional government and support from the rest of Europe for its refugees, which has given civilians time and opportunities to relocate.

There are reports of around 10k civilian deaths in Mariupol alone so they might be way beyond that already if it’s substantiated.

Help us out. What exactly are you talking about?

US Govt: We're the good guys!

US Media: We're the bad guys!

US Subject: I'm confused, but I do trust this actor..

The Blowback podcast is pretty good on this topic https://blowback.show/Season-1

Instead of saying "it happened", it would be a lot more persuasive if you'd spell it example. What cities did the USA raze in Iraq? Be specific, give me names so I can look it up.

Fallujah and Mosul (post occupation, but they provided artillery and air support, so...)

Raze means to completely destroy. Please cite a source that they were completely destroyed.

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