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Also these comparisons only work if you think any society is exactly the same and forget history.
I'm saying all of them roll into other territories and murder civilians with impunity and treating Russia's actions as uniquely evil is propaganda.
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I think the West suffers a bit from a misconception were they think democracy or any kind of elections will solve all problems but that's too simple. The protests in Eastern Europa that started the fall of the iron curtain were mostly because people wanted western levels of prosperity and maybe thought democracy is the way to get it. China shows you can have prosperity without democracy.
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I'm saying all of them roll into other territories and murder civilians with impunity and treating Russia's actions as uniquely evil is propaganda.
During Iraq and Afghanistan, did the US and UK specifically target civilians, go into towns and round people up to murder, and use rape as a weapon of war?
If you look at Chechnya, again I don't think in recent times the West has carried out similar levels of atrocities.
You can definitely point to Vietnam and other earlier conflicts tho.
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Such simplification of context, shocking.
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Carabo
Also these comparisons only work if you think any society is exactly the same and forget history.
So if you think life in any country is the same then maybe the west wins the body count top trumps.
From experience I can say life in West Germany vs CSSR is indeed better.