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Fallujah was never burned to the ground. Fallujah's population never dropped to 0. Apartment blocks were never shelled to the ground.

Fallujah has a population of 275,000. Bakhmut will never again have more than a handful of people.

It's not the lack of moral equivalence, it's the lack of any equivalent whatsoever.

In Fallujah, the US:

- damaged more than half of the residences and destroyed a quarter of them (air strikes)

- shot and killed unarmed protestors

- used cluster bombs

- used white phosphorous

- used depleted uranium

- left the area with increased cancer, birth defects and infant mortality