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So... Libya's population is now fully Italian-speaking? I mean, if Italy was doing the same magnitude of shit with Libyans that the Russia has done to the Mansi, then there are almost no speakers of languages other than Italian left in Libya. And if Italy has been doing something even worse, then that means that all non-Italian culture in Libya has been completely eradicated and the situation of Libyans is more like that of the Bering Aleuts โ who no longer exist, ot like that of Mansi.
Good, I'd like to know more of what acts of genocide were committed by Italy in Libya in the 2000's, please! You seem to be knowledged, so please do enlighten me!
Then there's Belgium, whose part Rwanda was until July 1962. Yeah, that was evil shit! Not sure if it's fitting to say "NATO countries" if you mean colonial stuff in early 1960's and before. But good, here we have an example that is on par with what the Russian Empire, USSR and the Russian Federation have been doing around the 1950's and 1960's. I am thankful that Belgium has stopped that, although it will of course not bring the million dead back!
How does the Ukraine war make the Russia the winner in this comparison? Its death toll and the suffering caused by it is of course noteworthy, but it's a small fraction of what the Russia has been doing. What was being done to Ukrainians until 1991 is much worse than what is going on now.
Which acts of genocide have been committed by Russia in the 2000?
Suppression was bad, but why hand over everything to the empire that segregated blacks till 1965? That's not much further in the past but should still be more severe than how Ukrainiens are treated in Russia.