I seriously don't get it.........

[Skybird]

The bigger a country is, the more it supresses and exploits countries the more the smaller they are. If that big country thinks of itself as "democratic", it does so indirectly, well-camouflaged behind wordtraps like "free economy", "freedom", "democracy". The more such a big country does not be "democratic", the more it reaches these very same effects by supressing and exploiting the others by military force. Point is: both have blood on their hands. In case of democracies that not so much kill with their own hands but let the killing done or taken place, this is just not so obvious than in case of a dictatorship that does the killing itself directly. From the statistics: in the 20th century the number of deaths caused by genocide (as understood inthe UN convention from december 1948) allowed and caused by tailored conditions by the demcocratic countries and designed to maximize their own economical advantages, equals if not exceeds the number of deaths of both world wars and all tyrannic regimes and all direct politcial terror there ever were during that century.

Should make one think. I only laugh about the "moral superiority " of our Western political motives. We created our own small island of the happy. We raised that island on the bodies of hundreds of millions.
Sorry for interrupting the party.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/welcome.html

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