Comments by "foil hat" (@foilhat1138) on "French philosopher, filmmaker describes what he saw on the front lines of Ukraine" video.

@Jimmy1972 Russia also supported the US invasion of Afghanistan.
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@Jimmy1972 There hadn't been an attack on coalition forces in years, the US could have left and declared victory any time after Bin Laden was killed. When Russia invaded it was such a disaster it destroyed their whole damn empire. Lets compare civilian casualties in Afghanistan just for fun. USSR: About two million Afghan civilians were killed. In 10 years US: 46,319 civilians n 20 years. Though its estimated only 1,010-1,297 Afghan civilians were directly killed by U.S./NATO actions. US isn't perfect but at least it tries to avoid civilian casualties, whereas Russia will commonly engage in reprisal killings and specifically target civilians.
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@Jimmy1972 Bin Laden killed thousands of people, the US demanded the Taliban hand him over, not an unreasonable request, and they refused. Not sure what they were supposed to do, just wag their fingers at him and say 'dont do it again you rascal'. I do think probably it would have been better to just leave it to special forces and air power though, and forget the nation building nonsense. Easy to say in Hindsight I guess.
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@nathanielb659 Pesky Americans wont even let me do any ethnic cleansing. Also Serbia voted to condemn Russia at the UN, they have been drifting towards Europe for decades, they know where their bread is buttered, any loyalty to Russia is because of nostalgia and inertia.
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@faouzielmir9894 I'm not defending the Iraq war, I'm not sure that anyone does, nor am I American. Mostly I was commenting on the braindead whataboutism from the previous poster. Which is what every Russian argument boils down to. "well America did something bad so its ok if Russia commits Genocide in Ukraine." it's completely idiotic. Afghanistan is back to literally the exact same state it was 20 years ago, and 40 years ago and 40 years from now. Sadly due to geography and history Afghanistan will always be a backwater run by warlords. The past 20 years were Afghanistan's big chance to change its fate, but nobody was interested in fighting for it. Not sure if you remember 9/11 but what was the US supposed to do? Scold the Taliban and tell them not to let it happen again? They demanded Bin Laden be handed over and they refused, so they invaded. Not unreasonable imo. And how long should the US occupy them, if after 20 years the ANA cant fight for itself they never will be abe to. Should the US occupy them until the end of time? Iraq got rid of a brutal dictator and one of the most hated men in history, both internationally and by his own people.The total number of deaths and disappearances Caused by Sadam is estimated to be between 250,000 to 290,000. (not including the Iraq Iran war) The estimated casuaties from Iraq are between 280,771-315,190 Iraqi civilians killed by direct violence since the U.S. invasion. A Vast majority of them were not directly caused by the US but the various militias. Again I'm not defending the Iraq war, I think it was a mistake and things should have been handled differently, but the 'US bad so Russia can do bad ' mentality is completely moronic.
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