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Kasz216 on 11 July 2008
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DTG said:
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DTG said:
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DTG said:
Yes I find it discriminating and even offensive that all war games seem to be based on the US perspective. I'm sure there would be quite a market in Europe, Asia and obviously the Middle East that would enjoy playing a War game from Iraqi perspective or that of the Russians.


If someone would really like to play a game from the russians perspective in any conflict they really must have the blinders on when it comes to history.

The USSR was worse then the Nazis during WW2.

 

I think most of the world looks at the US right now with such contempt that they find it comparable to most "evil" regimes of the past.

 

That said, the US did a lot of dirty things during the Cold War not just Russia.


Did the US kill millions of it's own people?

I think you vastly overestimate the negativity towards the US... that it's seen as bad as Stalin's russia or Hitler's Germany.

 

People see the US as exerting it's dominance and control through economic, cultural, politicaL and military means. It doesn't need to kill vast amounts of people to be a totalitarian regime in this day and age. The common term "imperialist" when applied to the US sums it up quite well. The US is controlling and expansionist but it does so through economy and culture and it's political weight rather than guns (though Iraq is an example of the US becoming more aggressive in expanding it's influence)

Riiight.... cause because US culture is popular throughout the world.... the US still has a pretty powerful (though by no means controlling) economy...

It's as bad as Nazi Germany and Communist Russia who systematically killed millions of their own people.

The US can't get anything done. No country can this day in age. The invasion of Iraq actually is a sign of that... because the UN couldn't even get a few inspectors in to a few buildings of a poor nation that was universally despised.

Heck. America isn't even anywhere near as bad as Colonization era Europe when it comes to this stuff.  Yet colonization europe is still looked on quite fondly by a lot of people.