This thread is about the Ottoman Empire in the 1910s Joko. Try and keep up?
Armenian Genocide of 1915: An Overview - New York Times
We're talking, once again, about the Ottoman Empire. Not the entire Armenian population. However, even if we were - your argument would be absurd too. It would mean there was not Rwandan Massacre because there are were many Tutsis in other countries of Africa who were not affected by the massacre.
Your continued need to ignore the subject title and try to make it about what you want to talk about makes you look like the revisionist you've already proven that you are Joko. Do you run into book clubs near your house and scream that they should be discussing the books you want to read too? Because that's what you're doing here. The thread is about the
Armenian Genocide. Not the Genocide Joko Thinks We Should Talk About.
You are who is ignoring the topic to just rant a single line declaring everything relevant is irrelevant. Nor do you want to discuss it in any relevant terms even at that time in history.
Nor are you consistent, but continue to contradict yourself. You claim 1.5 million civilian deaths equals "a genocide" of itself. When I point out the USA deliberately killed more Japanese and German civilians by carpet and firebombing civilian cities killing more than 1.5 million, you completely contradict claiming that doesn't count because it wasn't for the goal of totally exterminating all Japanese and Germans. Correct, it was to terrorize their civilians to break their will to fight. Any proof that wasn't the motives of the Ottoman Empire too?
The USA didn't have 40,000 Japanese and German non-uniformed guerilla fighters in the USA. Didn't have 150,000 Japanese and German soldiers on US soil. Didn't have 3 million German and Japanese civilians providing those fighters and soldiers, nor housing, feeding them and hiding them. Yet That was the situation with the Ottomans in relation to Armenians. Still, YOU claim what the Ottoman Empire did was "a genocide" and what the USA did wasn't. Just because you say so.
Why? Because of the American view that dropping bombs on civilians doesn't count while shooting civilians in the head does?
Nor do you want to discuss that Armenians WERE at war with the Ottoman Empire, including militarily and by acts of terrorism (non-uniformed), nor of "genocide" against Ottomans in the Balkins and Caucacus. You militantly resist discussing it in the context of the war, refuse to discuss the actions by the Armenians, nor even what the war was about. Certainly you don't want to discuss the persecution and subjugation of Ottomans that came after the war and what the Ottomans were fighting against either.
The British, French, USA and Russians were not coming to be liberators, they were coming to take the Ottoman Empire's land - and to subjugate all those people for themselves to take all their resources. Which is exactly what happened and is largely the basis for the boundaries to this day, other than WWII adjusted those. No, the Ottomans fighting against being overtake and ruled by the Western countries and Russia isn't relevant either to you. That Armenians were fighting as soldiers and as non-uniformed insurgents nearly 200,000 strong? That's irrelevant to you too.
The ONLY thing relevant to you is that you hate the Ottoman Empire. So, who the hell cares?
I hate what the Spanish did to the Caribbean peoples. I hate what white people did to NA. All sorts of genocides in history in reflection I hate. Do I like that the Ottomans killed Armenian civilians? No. Do I like that Ottoman civilians were killed in massive numbers prior to and during this in the Balkins and Caucacus? No. Do I like the subjugation of all those people by the Western powers and Russia? No. Do I like the Russian Genocide against Armenians? No.
What you absolutely declare is irrelevant is any relevancy to the topic of the Armenian genocide. You INSIST that you claim is irrelevant to anything - so then it is from your perspective. And if it is irrelevant to anything, why should anyone care in the slightest?
You hate Ottomans. REALLY REALLY hate Ottomans. Hate them totally. The only people you hate from that historical era too. We all got that. Why should anyone care if that's all there is to it?
Are you Armenian?