"Indeed, there have been no wars even one-tenth as bad as 1939-45 in all this time."

Sorry but it is so not true. You only see it from the american perspective. Million people died since 1945 in wars that felt like ww2 or even worse when you were on the ground. They burned whole areas with napalm in vietnam like they burned dresden and other german cities. They bombed iraq and afghanistan like they bombed germany in ww2. They used depleated uranium and contaminated more land than hiroshima and nagasaki. It is really sad that a lot of people think we are living in peacful times. It is the total opposite for the other side. Never in history we had so much wars, destroyment and deaths. It goes so far that many people even think ww2 never ended or that we are fighting ww3 already without talking about it. But you think russia is nearly a fascist state and the problem... Interesting. I know exactly why russia is figthing this war and can explain it to you. Also with china and taiwan. But you have to explain all these american wars since 1945 or at least list them. Then we can compare and talk about who is the "evil state".