COTW: The Kettle is Black

LOOK at this graph. It shows by state that the US incarcerates more of its residents per capita than any other nation on Earth. This statistic includes authoritarian countries like Russia, China, El Salvador and Turkmenistan. Biden recently doubled down on sanctions against Cuban officials after a public demonstration against its communist government resulted in imprisonment of activists.  Where is Cuba on this list? Look near the bottom.

Throwing people in prison for prison is not the only thing the US does a lot of. An estimate by an authoritative military journal estimates that the number of civilians killed by US air strikes in the two decades of the so-called global "War on Terror" is 22,679 or perhaps as many as 43, 308 based on a sworn number of strikes carried out by the Pentagon of 91,340 [chart below]

The last civilians killed by a drone strike in Afghanistan occurred during the evacuation that frantically took place during the last two weeks of August. A US drone incinerated a car filled with canisters of water in a misguided attempt to stop what the military thought was an attempted car bombing, but in reality was retaliation for the killing of 13 US service personnel at the airport. Ten family members were killed including seven children and an allied aid worker.