The totals are so lopsided as to make the quote-post's question absurd: you can attribute responsibility to Allied cruelty and callousness in WWII to the allies and still end up in a situation upwards of 85% of all civilian deaths were caused by the Axis and a slim majority of those by Hitler.

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I think the mistake here is again an assumption - pardon me, but a *racist* assumption - that only the United States (and Europe) has real agency and the rest of the world are mere passive recipients of American policy rather than active agents in their own story *who can decide to do bad things.*

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It is possible - easy, even - to argue that the wars of the GWoT (especially the Iraq War) were foolish mistakes that damaged both regional stability and our strategic position without pretending that when the Taliban assassinates a village leader's family, that's the same as the US doing it.

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The same 'spiraling ramifications' argument would make George Washington 'indirectly' responsible for the burning of the Vendee and the terrible losses of Napoleon's invasion of Russia because financial weakness and turmoil was a 'result' of the American Revolution. Like, c'mon.

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