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by hulitu 721 days ago
> but it's still totally different in both scale and nature from what Russia is doing in Ukraine.

Because if Americans kill people, it is an act of justice, of spreading democracy (see also Irak, Afganistan, Yemen, various Latin American and African countries) not a killing. /s

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You can call it what you want.

But the U.S. operation involves less than 1 percent as many ground troops as Russia has deployed in Ukraine.

And last I checked, hasn't resulted in entire cities razed to the ground, and 15 percent of the population displaced.