When you cause hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, to say it's not a matter of policy is a complete cop out. Russia also ostensibly does not have a policy of murder and rape, not publicly and not officially at least. It is through their actions that we can infer such a thing, just like we can do the same for the actions (and not "official policy") of the americans. Hundreds of thousands of people still died directly because of American imperialism, so it does not matter what was publicly said.
(Also, my comment on denialism was related to "The US does not purposefully target innocent people", when there are multiple examples of American soldiers doing just that. To separate the US from the actions of its soldiers is asinine, because you dont extend the same separation to the russians. Which only makes sense because you are defending "your" side.)
The only cop out is you pretending that every civilian who had died was at the hands of the US, when the civilian casualties of the GWT was overwhelmingly caused by sectarian violence and mass casualty terror attacks on civilians.
> separate the US from the actions of its soldiers is asinine, because you dont extend the same separation to the russians. Which only makes sense because you are defending "your" side.
I make the distinction because as your own source had stated the soldiers responsible were prosecuted and punished. Show me the Russian Federation prosecuting and punishing Russian soldiers for the thousands of cases of rape, torture, and executions that had happened in occupied Ukraine. If that were to occur then it would make sense to make such a distinction. The reason why it doesn't is the overwhelming scale over a very short period of time, with no signs of any sort of punishments to those carrying out the crimes.
Maybe you could have a point if there were a good alternative theory as to why Russia is using their limited supplies of expensive precision guided munitions on clearly civilian targets deep in Ukraine which are far from front lines and uninvolved in military industry. There have been none because it is overwhelmingly clear Russia's inability to win militarily has shifted their tactics to that of terror bombing in hopes of destroying the will of the Ukrainian people.
(Also, my comment on denialism was related to "The US does not purposefully target innocent people", when there are multiple examples of American soldiers doing just that. To separate the US from the actions of its soldiers is asinine, because you dont extend the same separation to the russians. Which only makes sense because you are defending "your" side.)