and to assert such is facile.
Belarus, for example, has recently incarcerated and tortured large numbers of opposition members and MPs, and is putting a sitting politician on trial (after having "disappeared" her for several weeks) for having the temerity to impugn the good name of an obviously bent-as-a-three-pound note election process.
The Nazis embarked on a programme of industrial, organised murder, resulting in the deaths of six million jews, slavs, roma, and others deemed to be inferior. The US dropped two nuclear bombs on a country that was ready to fight to the absolute death. The short-term deaths of some 250,000 people probably prevented the deaths of around ten million more, the likely outcome of a land invasion of Japan.
Come the fuck on, Mike. This comparison doesn't stand up to the slightest scrutiny.
Belarus, for example, has recently incarcerated and tortured large numbers of opposition members and MPs, and is putting a sitting politician on trial (after having "disappeared" her for several weeks) for having the temerity to impugn the good name of an obviously bent-as-a-three-pound note election process.
The Nazis embarked on a programme of industrial, organised murder, resulting in the deaths of six million jews, slavs, roma, and others deemed to be inferior. The US dropped two nuclear bombs on a country that was ready to fight to the absolute death. The short-term deaths of some 250,000 people probably prevented the deaths of around ten million more, the likely outcome of a land invasion of Japan.
Come the fuck on, Mike. This comparison doesn't stand up to the slightest scrutiny.