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by ReptileMan 9 days ago
In Iran USA has killed 1/4 of a civilian for every enemy combatant. That is unprecedented by any war level.
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watwut 8 days ago
How could such a thing possibly prove that "USA is sensitive to civilian deaths"?

USA is just not sensitive to that. It is sensitive to lives of own soldiers, very much.

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ReptileMan 8 days ago
Usually it is couple of civilians per enemy combatant. So USA kills civilians at rates many times under the norm.
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watwut 8 days ago
Iran is the norm now? And the USA self reporting about their own civilian victims (or military victims) is somehow to be trusted?

USA is attacking desalination plants and civilian infrastructure. It was doing it in the first stage of the war and led with those attacks in the second.

USA is killing fishermen in pacific. Just to make Hegseth feel like manly man. USA is engineering human catastrophe in Cuba. And it is supporting genocide in Gaza.

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