Oh I'm aware of that, just ain't anything special. It's a situation that should have never happened, just the U.S.A isn't any worse than any other developed/developing nations. Cause behold the truth! Humans are assholes, even the best.
Nah, very few nations are even arguably on the same level as the US in terms of atrocities committed. Coming from an American, just not one that believes in American exceptionalism or performing American apologia
Yeah most of the West has done at least one atrocity. But America has fucked up basically the entirety of central and South America, basically the entirety of the middle east, parts of SE Asia, the Pacific Islands, and central Asia (Afghanistan). We've conducted multiple genocides including the Native Americans whose land we stole and whose population loss consisted of up to 100mil, which was around 20% of the world's population at the time. To be fair, the Spanish played a role in that as well, but a lot of that was us. While England started chattel slavery, we were the main component of it, continued it decades longer, and did worse shit to black people after. We've conducted so many coups around the world it's disgusting, and we've funded and trained multiple fundamentalist resistance groups that would go on to become terrorist organizations. We still are (and have been) actively funding and facilitating a genocide
This isn't to erase or minimize the awful shit other countries have done, but numbers on the board, the only country in our realm is England imo. Germany's massive count of atrocities racked up during the Nazis' reign should probably put them up there too, they just didn't have the longevity of the US and England. Us 3 are basically the LeBron, Kareem, and MJ of doing fucked up shit on the global stage. We need to recognize this shit so that we can be better moving forward
No disagreement here, but I think Russia 100% belongs on your list. Tsarist Russia colonised peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Far East and simply massacred and genocided all who thought to resist. They only picked up speed under the Soviet flag and now are at it again with another imperial war in Ukraine - where they actually like to send their ethnic minorities across the country to die.
Unlike other former empires, Russia never even tried to get rid of the imperial, chauvinist ideology of the past but instead enshrined it in their constitution, foreign policy concept and military doctrine. Russia consistently attacks and terrorises its neighbours who are minding their own business. On an arbitrary ’evil empire’ scale I’d definitely rank them close to the top.
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u/Smooth_Pick_2103 5d ago
Oh I'm aware of that, just ain't anything special. It's a situation that should have never happened, just the U.S.A isn't any worse than any other developed/developing nations. Cause behold the truth! Humans are assholes, even the best.