The commenter themselves narrowed the scope when they said Forget all the dead from the Hamas massacre of October 7th, And went on to focus on the 12k+ w

The commenter themselves narrowed the scope when they said Forget all the dead from the Hamas massacre of October 7th, And went on to focus on the 12k+ wounded soldiers and 100k displaced. But even if we include those killed on Oct 7th -- it's simply and obviously not true that "No Western country has gone through something event remotely similar" in recent times.