The people are “different”, I suppose, in the sense that those regions were conquered by Mosow much later, and subject to pressures of colonization and cultural genocide for a lesser period of time. Russia may have its reasons, but acting on such designs is a war crime.
Some are also of other ethnic groups not present in numbers elsewhere in Ukraine. Catholicism prevails in part of western Ukraine and some of the people are Polish-speaking or Ruthenian-speaking.
I am in no way promoting genocide in any of its forms. But it does need to be recognized that the immigration of ethnic Albanians into Kosovo largely took place in relatively modern times, particularly after WWII.
Whether a War is just or injust, people die unnecessarily and for causes that in hindsight should have been avoidable. Wars are fought by good normal people. However, the leaders who orchestrate these mass slaughters never participate directly. People around the world regularly pay with their lives for the sins of their leaders.Yes. This is because, as I said, the pattern of colonization and cultural genocide began earlier and was more advanced in the East. Still, quite a job was done in the West even though it as in Moscow’s clutches for less than a century.
That kind of rhetoric is most distasteful!And Ratko Mladić et al.?
Yes, you are right. Before Columbus arrived, there were about 100 million native American Indians. Today, there are about 5 million. As Catholic Bishop Bartolome de las Casas has reported, native American Indians were tortured and brutally slaughtered, being treated as sub-human animals and slaves. It was the greatest act of genocide in world history, wiping out millions and millions of innocent people. AFAIK, there is no effort by Americans to return the land stolen from the native American Indian.
100 million is the highest estimate. Realistically, it was probably around 55million in ALL of the Americas! Now, it’s about 5 million in the USA.
Please remember to factor in diseases such as smallpox which killed far more natives than any genocidal campaign could alone.
It’s not up to “Americans”. The Federal Government has no intention of helping anyone! It’s not right what happened; however, I believe your average citizen would prefer to live in peace rather than cheat their Native brothers and sisters. The government elites have long abused their power and created division.
I have read as few as one million in what is now the United States. There were far larger Amerind populations south of here. Explorers and settlers did not run into huge population concentrations as was the case in Mexico. There were some fairly sizeable Indian towns in the Ohio Valley, but there were also enormous areas where nobody lived full time. The Ohio Valley tribes, for example, cleared Kentucky for a private hunting ground and wouldn’t let anybody settle there. In my own Ozark region, the Osage moved down from (probably) Minnesota and settled in the Missouri Valley. They cleared the Ozarks of all other Indians, again, for a private hunting reserve. The Indians who built Cahokia, the largest settlement along the Mississippi, were gone by the time settlers arrived.
Amerinds were not previously exposed to Eurasian diseases and, in any event, had immune systems more geared to parasitic diseases than to bacterial or viral diseases. If things had been reversed, say, if a boatload of Aztecs journeyed to Europe, north Africa or China and returned, the result would have been exactly the same unless they all died of disease on the return journey. Eventually, widespread death from Eurasian diseases among Amerinds was inevitable, just as the staggering European death rate from the Black Death when it arrived from Asia, was inevitable.
I thought that the Americans say that the USA is the greatest democracy in the whole world. Even better than the democracy in Germany, France, England or Russia?
I didn’t know that the USA was an oligarchy. Is that similar to a dictatorship of some sort where the people have very little say in the running of the government? Who are the oligarchs running the USA government?