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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
What is a dictator? Give me a good definition please. An old and moronic man like Putin who has annexed Crimea without a single drop of blood, or a nice guy like Obama (a Nobel Peace Prize winner) who's army kills people all over the Globe every day, and who has issued a law that allows the drones to kill American people for just a suspected in terrorism?
How many civilians were killed by Russian army since 1991 (the year when Russian Federation was declared)? How many were killed by the US army and its NATO allies? These are two simple questions you have not be a rocket scientist to answer to 
As about the democracy and pretending. Putin's trust rating in Russia is 80+% and he is a president. Whats the Obama's trust rating? So who is a real dictator? Who won the previous elections in the States? George Bush Jr. (the son of another US president like those guys in North Korea)? Has he been democratically elected? In fact No he hasn't, because the majority of the US citizens has voted for Al Gore.
"Freedom" and "democracy" are the last words anybody expects to hear from a country which had segregation just about 50 years ago (I don't even mention the genocide of the Native Americans). |
Dictator is a dictator. You should know the definition, lets look what wikipedia says.
"A dictator is a ruler who wields absolute authority."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator
And I already said this is not a competition. I don't have time or energy to combat US vs Russia, I don't live in either one of those countries or have loyalty for neither. Also having some "trust" is not very realiable indicator of democracy. Putin controls heavily the Russian media. So having "trust" is often simply a matter of brainwashing. That isn't the sign of true democracy, where people have real options to decide to who to trust.
But here are estimates from Wikipedia. Seems to be quite even numbers.
"For the period from 1994 to 2003, estimates ranged from 50,000 to 250,000 civilians and 10,000 to 50,000 Russian servicemen killed. Given that almost certainly both sides have tended to exaggerate enemy military casualties while minimizing their own and grossly underestimating its responsibility for civilian losses, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society set the conservative estimate of death toll in this time period at about 150,000 - 200,000 civilians, 20,000 to 40,000 Russian soldiers, and possibly the same amount of Chechen rebels.[25]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualt...nd_Chechen_War
"It shows a total range of at least 110,591 to 120,816 civilian deaths in the whole conflict as of December 12, 2012"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
"Iraqi civilian losses:
About 3,664 killed[11]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
"Civilians killed: 16,725–19,013 (2001–2013)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_...0%93present%29