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Anyone paying attention may have been mislead as you have been, but your own sources highest estimates aggregated (which is likely 1.5-2x higher than reality) put the US around 1/5 of all deaths combatant and civilian in this cherry picked time period. The reality is that there is a LOT of war happening and death happening and the US is only one of the players.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/civilian-and-combatant-de...

Acknowledging the mass harm war causes and the role the US has to play in that is absolutely true and valid. Pretending the US is acting egregious in comparison to others and only hyperfocusing on proving "US bad" when someone asks for context of how bad the US is overall doesn't serve anything than show your opinion and lack of willingness to discuss it on open and reasonable terms.

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There is nothing to compare to - the USA is by far the biggest committer of war crimes and crimes against humanity, by a wide margin.

Have you actually looked at the numbers or are you just bound and determined to stick to your opinion regardless of facts or reality?

As shown, the US isn't the top or the majority of deaths in war over your chosen time period. Your have provided no actual basis for your claims the US is the worst, let alone the worst "by far".

Either put up facts to attempt to prove your argument or be dismissed as an ignorant troll I'm ok with either outcome.

I have looked at the numbers, almost every day since March 2003.

Have you?

You seem to want to finish this argument without actually looking at any statistics.

"Ignorant troll"? The veracity of your vitriol belies cowardice. You have to be very ignorant to not understand the USA's heinous track record on war crimes, crimes against humanity, and immense violations of human rights around the world. By far, according to much open data on the subject, which I've already provdied - the USA is the worlds worst offender by a huge margin, that isn't even questioned in any sphere other than the utterly ignorant.

How many sovereign nations has the USA demolished since March 2003? Which other nation has demolished as many other sovereign nations since then?

>You seem to want to finish this argument without actually looking at any statistics.

I provided statistics on deaths and put the US in scope, and asked for you to provide proof of your claim the US is singularly the worst offender (its not).

I've not once claimed the US is not bad as you continuously suggest and attack (straw men as usual for trolls). I have simply stated that your claim the US is egregious is naive and myopic. You only prove that by failing to provide any numbers that put the US in context to back your own point.

>Since March 2003

Curious starting point. I tend to take a much longer view, but even within your own cherry picked 10 year window from earlier you are wrong.

Your statistics are cherry-picked.

The USA has demolished more sovereign states and continues to participate in mass murder, as it has done, since it illegally invaded Iraq on the basis of outright lies and murdered 5% of its population.

https://airwars.org/

Note that the PSR report I quoted earlier was 10 years after the war - the situation has gotten a lot worse since, due to the use of DU in civilian areas.

The USA is by far the worlds biggest war crime-committing nation. No other state comes close. To be ignorant of this, is to be complicit in its continued criminal behaviour.

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