The majority white "Stop the Steal" mob that stormed the nation's Capitol building was a mix of several right-wing extremist groups, according to Larry Rosenthal, chair and lead researcher of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. Some were members of far-right armed militias.
The rioters also displayed symbols of white supremacist extremism including a noose stationed across the Capitol which, according to Miller-Idriss, "symbolizes the horrific history of lynching," but also refers to a white supremacy code that signals a "day of reckoning when traitors will be hung in the streets.".
T he Eastern Front was the bloodiest theater of warfare in human history. The years long battle between the armies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union’s Red Army resulted in tens of millions of total casualties. Those numbers are well known and well documented. What is not as well known is the material butcher bill that highlighted how devastated the Soviet Union was after the war.
The war on the Eastern Front was so devastating, in part, because of the scorched earth tactics deployed by the Germans. German occupiers would enter strategic towns and villages and routinely round up the local population and kill them. Even the smallest hamlets were not free from German artillery fire and level bombings.
Meaning, previous riots, like the 1992 Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles, cost $775 million in 1992 dollars.
In other words, that astronomical number isn’t estimating total damage, just the damage that’s insured. So while the number is not helpful in estimating the total damage, it is still a good apples-to-apples comparison with past riots, since all the calculations are based on insurance claims.
The judgment that civilian casualties should always be minimized, or so otherwise restricted as to compromise the success of military operations, involves an abdication of moral responsibility — the need to balance ends and means.
Perhaps the most fundamental falsehood about civilian casualties is the belief that because civilians are not active combatants, they are merely onlookers who do not contribute to the war effort of a country, internal faction, or transnational movement. This is not the case. Civilians are almost never just bystanders.
Civilians work in war industries. They keep the civilian economy of a nation at war going. They provide necessary civil administration. Furthermore, no matter what their occupation, age, or sex, civilians provide a powerful social and psychological underpinning for combatants who claim to fight on their behalf.
Country A allied with Country B against Country C may decide to minimize civilian casualties because it wishes to ally itself with against C when the war ends , or where it is in the interests of both A and C to reconstitute B’s economy and society when hostilities are over.
David Glantz, probably the greatest living authority on the Red Army of World War II in the West, and perhaps in the world, has estimated that at least 80,000 Soviet civilians died in the city during the battle.
The essence of morality is judgment, and this involves stepping up to the plate and making difficult decisions. The anti-civilian casualties attitude, no matter what the situation, consists of running away and hiding behind absolutes.
For instance, in February 1945, the U.S. Army lost 1,000 men killed and 5,600 wounded in the retaking of Manila from the Japanese. The Japanese lost 16,000 men killed.