howie117 t1_jed7fi8 wrote
Reply to comment by Antique-Scholar-5788 in Another attack on an American base in Syria Friday after US retaliatory airstrikes on Iranian-backed groups by notunek
"The U.S. post-9/11 wars have forcibly displaced at least 38 million people. At least 929,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan."
- Watson Institute, Brown University
Antique-Scholar-5788 t1_jee1qfx wrote
Solid example of manipulating data for propaganda purposes.
Those numbers include such data as civilian deaths in the Syrian Civil War and US citizen/military death.
The US Middle East wars were obviously a mistake, but the US military didn’t target civilians. Equating that to what Russia is doing (or China by the CCP), and using whataboutism to justify it, is despicable.
howie117 t1_jefaq4b wrote
> Solid example of manipulating data for propaganda purposes.
lol, you mean from the US based Watson Institute and Brown University?
Why is one war worse than the other? Iraq/Afghanistan war even has more casualties. The whole world knows that both Russia and USA are warmongering terrorist nations. Why not condemn both for the wars and mass death? Or is it all about american exceptionalism? Every other nation in the world sees through the clear hypocrisy of americans.
Antique-Scholar-5788 t1_jefb6xj wrote
Nah, I mean claiming that US troops killed 1 million people, and then citing a source that definitely does not say that.
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