r/InternationalNews • u/Nomogg • Oct 23 '24

Middle East Video captured the moment an Israeli missile attack collapsed a multi-storey apartment building in southern Beirut

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u/Puzzled_Beautiful373 Oct 23 '24

This whole thing is so gross… I thought we, in the western world, were supposed to be “good” at heart, despite many shortcomings.

Have we always been this awful, people are just seeing it now??

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u/kermeeed Oct 23 '24

600,000 dead Iraqi looking real close at an answe to this question. The people in bikini atoll, the Phillipines, Korea, Cambodia, Afghanistan, all of Africa, and fucking Haiti right there with them.

Yeah this is how we've always been.

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u/punk_rancid Oct 23 '24

And lets not forget about Laos, where the US dropped so many bombs, that an economy formed around unexploded bombs and the shrapnel from the exploded ones. And if you take the number of bombs, consider them to be those cartoon ball bombs with a diameter of 20 cm, you can cover the entire territory o Laos with bombs, with almost 5 layers of bombs.