Reflections of a stormy petrel

Nonsense, I am arguing that Britain's policies of extermination - faithfully imported by the English Americans in the matter of Indians - were something altogether extraordinary in the European context. Spain ruled a discontented Italy. a country its own size, for a century and a half, with no need for any of the vicious brutality with which Britain ruled little Ireland and the Americans subdued the powerless Indians. Ditto Austria and Bohemia, Austria and Hungary, Spain and the Spanish empire. Only in Turkey, and to a lesser extent in Russia, did any such things happen. Ah, yes, and in the piratical Dutch empire, where the answer to, say, Chinese commercial competition could be to murder 100,000 Chinese from one day to the next. But then, the Dutch and the English are pretty much one ilk. The notion of mass murder as a tool of government is an Anglo-Saxon one and a Dutch one. The rest of us had a brief infatuation with it in the twentieth century. So your foolish statement about mass murder being an average fear of the European citizen is exactly wrong. I am putting this in a somewhat provocative manner, but your insulting and infuriatingly ignorant opening left me no choice. As I said, T for troll.