A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. More than 500 people were slaughtered in the My Lai massacre, including young girls and women who were raped and mutilated before being killed.

"The USA was not fighting to take away the land from the Vietnamese"

Sure Jose' the Vietnamese were not the Native Americans, Hawaiians or the Inuit people.

The Americans used Napalm against civilians in Vietnam.

The My Lai massacre was a War crime and recognised as such and platoon leader William Calley, was given the full blame for the entire My Lai Massacre.Ultimately, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson Jr. put an end to the killings. After helplessly watching the carnage from above and attempting to rescue the wounded, he landed his helicopter directly in the line of fire, all but daring his brothers in arms to shoot through him if they were going to keep the slaughter going.

It was not official USA policy to injure civillians as it is Putins policy to rape and murder or remove 100,000 Ukrainians from their homes to Syberia. 10,000 children are missing from Ukraine believed to have been taken to Russia.

Josephus,

What a load of bollocks.

http://bbc.com/news/world-asia-23427726

Foxy, I recognise you stand by Russia is justified to massacre citizens because your claim USA also massacred citizens from an unspecified journalist claim that it was common practise by USA.

Josephus,

Actually you seem to not understand much of anything.

I think the difference is that the US military, as a servant of US citizens, has to answer to them and represent their values. Consequently it seeks to maintain high ethical standards and answers for its conduct.

Putin's military needs only answer to Putin and represents his values. Hence chemical weapons, rape, murder, and destruction of civilian infrastructure constitutes the modus operandi of the Russian military and pervades its command structure. The Russian military routinely denies its criminal conduct, and Russian citizens, if they are able to get any gruesome truths, are either jailed or killed if they raise concerns.

Military intervention is always clumsy and brutal in my opinion, but it is clear that the conduct of the Russian military is no different from the Nazis. They need to be defeated and thrown out of Ukraine.