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Don't want to minimize the genocide one bit, since it's truly horrific, but the bloodiest 21st century war is the Second Congo War which had around four million deaths. Besides, the genocide in Gaza can hardly be called a "war" at all.
We really don't get enough information on this one in the English-speaking world. One of the largest (or just the largest?) conflicts since WW2 and it was a conventional war (as opposed to an imperialist nation vs. an insurgency). Some wild shit happened in the Second Congo War and we never hear about it.
To be fair, you cant fully divorce it from imperialism. It was an ex Marxist and ex follower of Lumumba, vs Mobutu, a CIA installed leader who started out as a comprador but eventually became a nuisance for them.
Oh yah for sure. I just meant it wasn't like the US in Afghanistan where we had tanks, planes, and a navy against their bolt action rifles and IEDs. The Second Congo War had professional armies fighting other professional armies. I think it was also the war where one side parachuted a bunch of pilots into an airforce base and stole all the other side's planes?