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You lost me with "in history" did you just forget the last 200 years?

USA, probably the only country where after shooting down a civilian airliner you get decorated for doing good job.

I'm pretty sure he didn't. The US has the notable distinction of performing genocide on an entire continent of peoples and cultures in the process of replacing its population with settlers. I'm sure more then a few people in China justify ethnic cleansing with "The US did it and now they're the most powerful nation in the world. Maybe they were on to something. Well, better late then never."

I am not American, but I assume you are referring to native americans, it is my understanding that the displacement of the native population occured before the federation of the US states, which would mean the perpetrators of this crime would be the colonizing countries, which would be Spain/France/England, surely?

> it is my understanding that the displacement of the native population occured before the federation of the US states,

It started before that, sure. It very much continued after (into the 20th Century), and was a major feature of the post-independence westward expansion of the US.

USA's Pacific Ocean imperialism was never really distinguishable from its Western America colonialism. The same racist bastards (as in, the same actual army personnel: Jacob Hurd Smith, Leonard Wood, Blackjack Pershing, etc.) who killed lots of indigenous Americans also killed lots of indigenous Filipinos. The Bud Dajo Massacre was similar to that at Wounded Knee sixteen years earlier, except probably more diabolical.

Of course, the imperial conquest of Philippines presaged more USA imperial conquest elsewhere.

Let’s not forget the kingdom of Hawaii

Of course, I can't believe I left that out!

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