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The Gulf War comes to mind. From Wikipedia:

> Coalition bombing raids destroyed Iraqi civilian infrastructure. 11 of Iraq's 20 major power stations and 119 substations were totally destroyed, while a further six major power stations were damaged.[49][50] At the end of the war, electricity production was at four percent of its pre-war levels. Bombs destroyed the utility of all major dams, most major pumping stations, and many sewage treatment plants, telecommunications equipment, port facilities, oil refineries and distribution, railroads and bridges were also destroyed.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_air_campaign




Indeed, the Gulf war can fairly be described like that. As far as I can tell, none of the other US Middle Eastern conflicts can.

But at least with the Gulf war it’s obvious that the coalition did the right thing, intervening to stop a war of aggression by Iraq.


Groznyj, Alepo, Mariopol ...


I don’t think the US was that deeply involved in any of those conflicts. Certainly not so much in the flattening part.


Those are names of the cities Russia actually flattened. Infrastructure, houses themselves, turned from cities full of life to nothing.

Not, like, some part of it, but almost all of it.


Whataboutism..




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