Welcome to the Genocide Club

[Rodion Romanovich]

Uh... everyone already knew this. Rule is, if you can do awful things and get away with it, you do it. (in this case if you have bangsticks)

EDIT: Personally, I can't really think of why one would wake up in the morning and decide to rip off some guy's balls, but whatever.

It turns out a lot of people do awful things even if they can't get away with it... which is even worse. The British empire wouldn't have crumbled so easily if it hadn't putting itself in a situation where they sent out men who were interested in drinking their tea against an increasingly big horde of people who wanted revenge against brutal genocide of their families, relatives and friends. Similar to most empires who use a temporary advantage granted to them during a short period of history to ruthlessly and mercilessly attack people they had no quarrel with. Which is why one would think that after all failed Imperialism attempt all new instances of similar ideas would have learnt the lesson from their history books...

As for thread, yeah, old news to most I guess... By the way, you could just as well claim the romans invented concentration camps, IIRC there have been some claims of a few castrum-looking buildings where POWs and civilians were kept and many starved to death. The idea to attack and systematically attempt to exterminate civilians has been employed in many historical periods, sometimes (unfortunately) looking beneficial in the short term, but almost always harmful in the long run, the notable exception being native Americans.

[Fragony]

You Romanian guys did invent biological warfare in a way, the first record of using diseased agents and throwing diseased plague victims into enemy towns are from uncle Vlad.

[drone]

I hadn't heard about the India thing, but it doesn't surprise me that much. It's essentially the same thing that happened in the Irish potato famine. Lots of food, but worth more as export than sold locally. Many say bio-fuels will cause another one of these.

[Odin]

I hadn't heard about the India thing, but it doesn't surprise me that much. It's essentially the same thing that happened in the Irish potato famine. Lots of food, but worth more as export than sold locally. Many say bio-fuels will cause another one of these.

Quite, I have been making a killing on wheat its up nearly 3 fold since everyone got ethenol/corn happy.