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> I am a US citizen, and sometimes I am really ashamed of my country Is there any country in history with comparable economic and military power to the US that
by marcell 5y ago
> I am a US citizen, and sometimes I am really ashamed of my country
Is there any country in history with comparable economic and military power to the US that has a "cleaner" record in terms of "bad stuff"? I'm specifying comparable power to specifically exclude tiny nations that never had the capacity to do "bad stuff."
- ohgodplsno 5y agoNone of your potential candidates have ever nuked any other country, which in terms of war crimes rates pretty damn high.
- kuboble 5y agoI would still rate it a magnitude below https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
- pcmoney 5y agoAt the time Nuking a country wasn’t a war crime. Also fire bombing raids on other cities (eg Dresden) were actually worse than the nuclear bombing. Additionally it could be argued that the nuclear option actually killed fewer civilians than the alternative. Strongly recommend Dan Carlins podcast on the rise and fall of imperial japan to learn more.