You should be disturbed! The United States is evil.
Then we need something worse than "evil" to describe China.
Well, no, since you can't really blame an economic system for the various crimes of leaders of countries in the same way that you can blame an ideology that deliberately promotes war and racism. But you can blame capitalist structural violence for suffering and death caused by poverty and so forth. And you can compare country to country concerning "moral high ground".
You're applying double standards there. You're saying it's okay to blame "capitalist structural violence," but that you can separate communist leaders from the ideology they espoused.
Also, communism kind of does promote war, or at least, the way Lenin and others interpreted it. Why do you think so much time was spent trying to spread it. And while it might not promote racism, it does have a similar "othering" factor as Nazism, only based on class rather than ethnicity.
But anyway, the reason the body count is so striking is because the United States has a much smaller population.
By what metric?
If you want to compare body counts, how far back do you want to go? The bodies that can be laid at Mao's feet alone for instance...
And that reason is that you've bought into the imperial propaganda at least somewhat. But anyway, these were both wars of choice, so the killings that have resulted are on us.
Saying Afghanistan was a choice is a technicality. Yes, the US could have not invaded Afghanistan after 9/11. We can speculate what would have happened afterwards. But if one country attacks another, it's within the country's rights to respond.
Also, the Taliban aren't saints.
And yet it hasn't been drone bombing people for the last decade and a half.
No, it's done all matter of other attrocities, as I've listed countless times.
done it successfully, we can look at Cuba and Vietnam for good examples of that, but the level of absolute economic as well as military devastation they had to endure in order to repel that was absolutely devastating, to the point that it was very easy for the western powers like the USA & the EU to declare them as failed states while they simultaneously blockaded economic trade towards them directly causing the conditions they were claiming were the fault of those states directly, in any case there's little point in discussing this further with you as it doesn't seem like you understand economic imperialism.
Cuba and Vietnam? Really?
Okay, let's start with Cuba. I'm aware of Baptista and Castro and all that, but the US hasn't blockaded Cuba since 1962, the EU is Cuba's largest trading partner, and Cuba survived through the Cold War via subsidies via the USSR. You've also conveniently left out Cuba's human rights record. You could make the argument that normalizing relations would help, but relations with China have been normalized for decades, it didn't make China more liberal. Cuba beats the US in a number of areas (e.g. life expectancy per capita), but Cuba isn't some worker's paradise. There's a reason why even now, people are leaving the island.
As for Vietnam, again, that's a simplification. I'm going to give you the credit of assuming that you know of the history of Vietnam in the 20th century (French colony, then divided between North and South, Vietnam War occurs, North wins, massive Vietnamese diaspora as a result), but I don't see how anyone can claim the moral high ground in that conflict. The North was supported by China and the USSR, the South by the USA and its allies. However, Vietnam is doing much better than Cuba. Paradoxically, it's seen as a key US ally. And a lot of the increases in wealth came from liberalizing the economy, even if the state still has a lot of control.
Frankly, the US is insanely capitalist to me, but those above examples you gave aren't exactly cheerleaders for communism or socialism.
