Their definition fits several genocides committed fairly recently by the US.
Despite being against the (2nd) US invasion of Iraq since before it happened, I've never personally felt the need to apply the label genocide (estimates of 300k violent deaths and 1M excess deaths notwithstanding). But I am very much willing to admit this may be a result of biased US propaganda that seeks to justify that war and downplay the atrocities, regardless of my not buying into the overarching narrative.
But if you yourself find the definition of genocide appropriate to the second US invasion of Iraq, or any other US military action, then please make the arguments to apply it! I'm not playing some game of "which country's unprovoked war is worse", but rather condemning it all.
And that's just in the last 20 years. I could also make a case in Syria and Libya as well but that would require first convincing you that our CIA/State Dept. were up to their usual tricks which I suspect would be a waste of our time. And let's not forget our role in this whole Ukrainian boondoggle going back to at least 2014 with funding & fomenting the coup/revolution that gave Putin his "justification" to annex Crimea.
Then we sit back as moral arbiters and want the whole world to still pretend we are always the good guys.
Good news, no convincing needed! I do agree with you that the US government is continually meddling in foreign countries, and I agree that this is a bad thing.
> the coup/revolution that gave Putin his "justification" to annex Crimea.
But here is where you lose me. Even to the extent that the US supported pro-western political movements in Ukraine, it still does not justify overt war by Russia. Russia was surely playing the influence game as well, and ultimately lost. Losing that game doesn't justify escalating to the next level, especially when that next level is full on war of attacking civilian infrastructure and razing cities.
This doesn't require guesswork, our own intelligence agencies have stated this as the likely outcome for decades.
Yes, it also stepped in to stop genocide where it could (and waited too long, if you ask me). Even by the highest estimates, the whole 78-day aerial warfare campaign killed less people than several atrocities commited during Yugoslav wars did in a single day, and the campaign brought a lasting peace to the region.
> NATO keeps closing the circle tighter and tighter around Russia.
Yes, that's why until Russia invaded Ukraine, NATO countries in Europe kept cutting military budgets, reducing troop numbers, disbanding units, closing military bases, selling off equipment. All a fiendish plot to encircle Russia!