In Reply to: I said "part of" that is what you said* posted by TheHappyBurgermeister on November 18, 2024 at 21:42:29
“ Contact with Europeans would inevitably lead to mass death through contagion, whether intentional or callous.”
I think it naive to think that British and American forces would deliberately infect opposing camps with small pox and somehow it would never occur to them to employ the same means against indigenous people, but the point is maybe moot because mass murder and famine were more immediate and direct, and employed relentlessly