• brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Unless you also consider the Iraq war/ Afghanistan war to be genocides, then yes, that basically is the definition you use; you certainly don’t use the actual definition.

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      10 months ago

      Unless you also consider the Iraq war/ Afghanistan war to be genocides

      I mean… Lets be real here. They started the “war” on a false pretense and then killed a fuck ton of civilians.

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        10 months ago

        A million civilians AND the birth defect rate went through the roof after the war AND they destroyed every single piece of infrastructure they could find including water and power AND they used chemical weapons like white phosphorous which is the modern equivalent of napalm