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points by geopastr 2 days ago | 0 comments
I know it’s fashionable to change the topic to Israel whenever China or Russia is being criticized, but here are some numbers for perspective:

Deaths in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: ~600,000 Total deaths in Israel-Palestine conflict since 1948: ~200,000. So Ukraine is definitely bloodier.

The area occupied by Russia in Ukraine is 20x the size of Gaza + the West Bank, and is 5 times the size of Israel itself.

Russia is 775x the size of Israel, so unlike Israel-Palestine fighting over a small piece of territory to live on, Russia’s war is far more pointless.

[–] OroPla 1 day ago
The original comment was about "not wanting to contribute to the aggressor in a terrible war", which necessarily will bring up Israel, who the USA is generously spending billions of dollars on year by year.

How many billions of dollars has the USA given to Russia since starting the war?

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