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> US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II Even if that article was remotely accurate (it isn't, see mcguire's comme

> US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II Even if that article was remotely accurate (it isn't, see mcguire's comment), the kinds of wars that we fought before the US's new world order could produce that number of casualties in a single year (1942, 1945), so U.S. hegemony would still be a massive improvement. It's a massive improvement even over the two-pole world, as a quick glance at the battle deaths over time graph [1] shows. [1] https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-years https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea...

notreallytrue 6y ago
Wow, you are arguing against a study by citing Vox Just WOW OK, let's make it easy for you --- VIETNAMESE AND INDOCHINA WAR: A TOTAL OF 5.5 MILLION DEAD THE VIETNAM WAR - 3.8 MILLION DEAD 1.7 MILLION MORE DEAD IN THE CAMBODIAN, KHMER ROUGE GENOCIDE Source for death toll: Necrometrics and British Medical Journal, 2008 --- TOTAL IRAQI'S KILLED IN AMERIAN WARS (1990-PRESENT) - 3 MILLION IRAQI SANCTIONS: 1.7 MILLION TOTAL DEAD [1] 500,000 CHILDREN DEAD [2][3] Source: [1] Behind the War on Terror. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. 2003. [2] Food and Agricultural Organization Study (1995) [3] Iraq Sanctions Kill Children, U.N Reports (New York Times, 1995 --- Just these major events account to more than 10 million deaths And they stop at the first gulf war There are many more years to cover Good luck denying that > 1942, 1945 The massive improvement from 80 years ago happened even in third World countries run by warlord (financed by the US) So what? Can we not have another 80 years of US hegemony and compare the results? Is it asking too much? It's how science works: the US hegemony experiment is done and the results are meh, we ended up with Trump, now let's try something else and let's try not to bet on the wrong horse this time, ok guys?

notreallytrue 6y ago

Wow, you are arguing against a study by citing Vox Just WOW OK, let's make it easy for you --- VIETNAMESE AND INDOCHINA WAR: A TOTAL OF 5.5 MILLION DEAD THE VIETNAM WAR - 3.8 MILLION DEAD 1.7 MILLION MORE DEAD IN THE CAMBODIAN, KHMER ROUGE GENOCIDE Source for death toll: Necrometrics and British Medical Journal, 2008 --- TOTAL IRAQI'S KILLED IN AMERIAN WARS (1990-PRESENT) - 3 MILLION IRAQI SANCTIONS: 1.7 MILLION TOTAL DEAD [1] 500,000 CHILDREN DEAD [2][3] Source: [1] Behind the War on Terror. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. 2003. [2] Food and Agricultural Organization Study (1995) [3] Iraq Sanctions Kill Children, U.N Reports (New York Times, 1995 --- Just these major events account to more than 10 million deaths And they stop at the first gulf war There are many more years to cover Good luck denying that > 1942, 1945 The massive improvement from 80 years ago happened even in third World countries run by warlord (financed by the US) So what? Can we not have another 80 years of US hegemony and compare the results? Is it asking too much? It's how science works: the US hegemony experiment is done and the results are meh, we ended up with Trump, now let's try something else and let's try not to bet on the wrong horse this time, ok guys?