https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol
In this example, one among countless others, russia killed tens of thousands of civilians, in a couple of months. russia caused more suffering in a few months of war than the USA in a decade in Vietnam. Comparing the two is utterly dishonest.
Absolutely and obviously false, as you will quickly reveal to yourself by spending a few seconds looking up the toll of civilian deaths and maimings during the US-driven conflict in Vietnam.
Comparing the two is utterly dishonest.
The comparison is in any case completely vacuous. There's no indication that you're being dishonest here, however. Most likely it's a case of simple willful ignorance.
In this example, one among countless others,
There are exactly 3 others since WW2: Chechnya, Syria, Afghanistan.
Their number is not, by any stretch, "countless".
Of course russia committed many more in the wars you cited. And we could add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_January https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia_conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
Only one comes close: the multi-decade conflict in Abkhazia. But that one saw atrocities committed by both sides, and the civilian death toll was probably significantly under 10k (including the phase of overt ethnic cleansing).
Even in Mariupol it seems the figure is closer to 8k-10k per [0]. Unfortunately the Ukrainian government sometimes provides unsubstantiated figures, and then these get misquoted and copy-pasted (for example neglecting to mention the distinction between military and civilian deaths). In the current war there've been no other massacres to compare with the scale of what happened in Mariupol (horrible as these events were, the numbers just weren't that big).
Pushing grossly inflated figures (or implications of such numbers) serves no purpose, and only serves to give the apologists for the regime that is responsible (such as we have in ample supply on in this venue) ammunition with which to nitpick and distract. "Western propaganda, russophobia" they will say.
[0] - https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/08/ukraine-new-findings-rus...
My point about the other conflict is just that russia fought them after WW2. Sorry if this was unclear.