Thr USA killed way way way more than 10 million native americans. We will never know the true scale of the genecide because the majority of it was done through disease. Early settlers would deliberately trade goods contaminated with several european diseases that the natives had little or no resistance to, including small pox and several others I can't remember off the top of my head. Explorers moving west described "virgin" country untouched by man, beautiful and bountiful, but they were wrong. What they saw was an environment shaped over thousands of years by humans for humans that once supported hundreds of millions of native americans, who were mostly dead by the time european explorers got there. The genecide everyone knows about was really just the end, picking off the stragglers. That was bad enough that it's whitewashed in public schooling, but they don't even teach the history of the biological warfare that did the vast majority of the work. In many ways the americas still bear the gaping wounds of european contact today. This place is built on a foundation genocide.
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I'm from Asia we invented genocide.
Unfortunately and with greater hesitation, I shall say unto ya’ll & everyone else within earshot, a reluctant and nauseating amen.(On a personal level) I AM SO NOT HAPPY ABOUT THIS! Bittersweet Dreams Everyone. At least if the day comes sooner than it may have come forty years ago( when my awareness of the “American” version became so very apparent. F it all! My principles & values have not budged in the slightest except perhaps become more accommodating and accepting of some marginalized communities that might have not been given the access & ability to address issues & needs of said communities. There is plenty to go around good peoples😃 Poke a few holes in a billionaires nutbag & let ‘er flow for everyone. Tis’ the season for philanthropy via other people’s $’s. Tough times, tougher titty mister. Ima ask you something, where is your passport? I know you think it’s where you thought it was. Don’t worry. I am not what you think I am. You are what you think I am.
Truly, no one would ever fathom Europeans committing genocide.
I can it was called colonialism...
Were there not an Israel the USA would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.
- Joe Biden, 1986
- Biggest AIPAC recipient who earned the nickname Genocide Joe and took all his orders directly from Tel Aviv like a spineless sack of sand.
In hindsight it's very obvious why Biden said that but people still refuse to see the obvious truth.
America definitely wouldn't be doing it this brazenly without AIPAC. In all their previous genocides they fought for a major objective and managed to keep their propaganda alive.
Now it's all falling apart for a miniscule landgrab for a settler colony while not lending the weapons to Israel but giving it all for free.
See Ukraine as an example for what realpolitik looks like. Gaza is not it.
They support and punish specific politicians and groups but AIPAC isn't the driver, Zionism is an essential part of the US policy in the MENA region. Israel is essentially a colony of the US and it's allies. They would be happy to do it less openly like they had been for decades, keeping Palestine subjected but not aggravating onlookers too much, but the right wing in Israel are blood-thirsty genociders.
There’s also the difference of access to information. The genocide in Gaza is one of the most televised genocides ever. Because people are able to see the truth of what’s happening and not just the propaganda that’s pushed, it means that it’s much harder for the Israeli and USA governments to control the narrative (like hiding the fact that the right wing in Israel is a bunch of blood-thirsty genociders)
Zionism is an essential part because Israel has told politicians it is. Even if it was essential, not obeying every Israel command doesn't mean Zionism goes bye bye.
Look at the UAE, Qatar and Saudi. They PAY they US to be proxy bases. The host US army personell and weapons and pay for it. And then Israel bombs Qatar that's completely insane. People really don't understand how bad that was geopolitics wise.
Yet, they still manage to have concern for Uyghurs, who they didn’t know existed until imperial core propaganda started manufacturing bullshit about them.
As someone said, the empire hates chinese people and muslims, but for some reason they seem to love muslim chinese