Maybe it doesn't matter which empire is more problematic.

More problematic to whom?

people living under the threat of them

Where are the chinese wars and regime change operations?

cold war (they did the same as the us, but just lost), tibet, uigurs, taiwan, mongolia, and don't forget their brutal mining operations in africa

At least Russia only attacks its neighbors at most so countries far away have nothing to fear, unlike the US invading and destroying countries all around the globe.

but in return the us only conqueres nations far away from them (at least in the last 100 years), also that's not really better, russia got a lot of neighbors

the US is the bigger threat to real freedom in the world

imo, it purely depends on the region you're looking on

most brutal empire in history

historically britain outcompetes them imo, but in the 20th century, yes they were, now I'd say china tho, just look at their actions in africa, they're kinda repeating briyish history there

but it's nice, that you have manners and don't want to ban everyone disagreeing with you like some on grad

You just went through a regime change operation of Russia. Or did you think Trump and all those extremist right-wing governments in Europe won all on their own?

Putins propaganda machine made those happen. They infiltrated so many social media groups spreading lies to make everyone more xenophobic so they can invade Ukraine and all previous USSR regions without them getting help.

On Lemmy, they are mostly hiding in your instance.