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> The US has never purposefully tortured or starved to death millions of people. If you believe this, you really need to start reading more books. Start with "
by chomskyole 3y ago
> The US has never purposefully tortured or starved to death millions of people.
If you believe this, you really need to start reading more books. Start with "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky.
Let me give you an unsorted and quite limited selection of crimes against humanity conducted by the USA:
- The US enslaved large amounts of people with the consequences still being enormously present. This one should be obvious.
- The death toll in Iraq alone was 1m people for which the official explanation I believe is that they did a "whoopsie" because they thought there were WMD...
- Let's also remember when the USA provided immunity to Japan's army of Mengeles, Unit 731 [1]. A really wild story.
- Henry Kissinger is said to have killed 150,000 Cambodians. Of course that was in the context of the unforgivable Vietnam war. Some read up on Henry [2][3]
- Here is a limited list of USA's involvement in regime change. Often these regime changes included democratically elected leaders like in Chile [4]
- Torturing is also part of the USA's official policy program. Have a look at Guantanamo Bay [5]
- The US also has a standing secret court whose secrecy provisions were recently protected by its Supreme Court [6][7]
Start looking into this and you will find that you can go on and on. Now the last fact-let I want to share is that the US army has more funding than the next five largest nations combined. This is utterly crazy, yet confirmed on numerous occasions.
This large budget naturally translates into the fact that the number of US military stations abroad is unmatched. Now please consider that US military stations abroad are near someone else's home. How would you feel if a militaristic foreign nation would have their military stations located around your home? Let alone a nation that has been at war nearly every year since it's inception... [8][9]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
[2] https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/henry-kissinger-cambodia-bombing-survivors/ https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/henry-kissinger-cambodia...
[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/09/henry-kissinger-birthday-reputation-foreign-policy/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/09/henry-kissinger-birthda...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
[7] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/01/politics/supreme-court-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/01/politics/supreme-court-fo...
[8] https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/usa-only-17-years-of-peace.html https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/usa-only-1...
[9] https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/50473 https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/50473