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    Severe humanitarian disasters caused by US aggressive wars against foreign countries

    A report noting the record of an unexceptional entity.

    Severe humanitarian disasters caused by US aggressive wars against foreign countries

    The China Society for Human Rights Studies | Updated: 2021-04-11 19:37

    "The United States has always praised itself as "a city upon a hill" that is an example to others in the way it supports "natural human rights" and fulfills "natural responsibilities", and it has repeatedly waged foreign wars under the banner of "humanitarian intervention".

    During the past 240-plus years after it declared independence on July 4th, 1776, the United States was not involved in any war for merely less than 20 years.

    According to incomplete statistics, from the end of World War II in 1945 to 2001, among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions of the world, 201 were initiated by the United States, accounting for 81 percent of the total number.
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    Most of the wars of aggression waged by the United States have been unilateralist actions, and some of these wars were even opposed by its own allies. These wars not only cost the belligerent parties a large number of military lives but also caused extremely serious civilian casualties and property damage, leading to horrific humanitarian disasters.

    The selfishness and hypocrisy of the United States have also been fully exposed through these foreign wars.


    List of Wars of Aggression Waged by the United States and the US Interventions in Foreign Countries after the End of World War II:

    1947–1949: intervening in the Greek civil war
    1947–1970: intervening in Italy's elections and supporting anti-communism activities
    1948: supporting the anti-government forces in Costa Rica's civil war
    1949–1953: supporting anti-communism activities in Albania
    1949: intervening in the government change in Syria
    1950–1953: waging the Korean War
    1952: intervening in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952
    1953: supporting a coup in Iran to overthrow the then Iranian government
    1954: supporting the change of the then Guatemalan government
    1956–1957: plotting a coup in Syria
    1957–1959: supporting a coup in Indonesia
    1958: creating a crisis in Lebanon
    1960–1961: supporting a coup in the Congo
    1960: stopping the government of Laos from starting a reform
    1961: supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
    1961–1975: supporting civil war and opium trade in Laos
    1961–1964: supporting anti-government activities in Brazil
    1963: supporting civil strife in Iraq
    1963: supporting riots in Ecuador
    1963–1975: fighting the Vietnam War
    1964: intervening in the Simba rebellion in the Congo
    1965–1966: intervening in Dominica's civil war
    1965–1967: supporting the Indonesian military government’s massacre of communists
    1966: supporting an insurgency in Ghana
    1966–1969: creating conflicts in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which is a region on the Korean peninsula that demarcates North Korea from South Korea
    1966–1967: supporting an insurgency in Bolivia
    1967: intervening in the change of the Greek government
    1967–1975: intervening in Cambodia's civil war
    1970: intervening in Oman's domestic affairs
    1970–1973: supporting a military coup in Chile
    1970–1973: supporting a coup in Cambodia
    1971: supporting a coup in Bolivia
    1972–1975: offering assistance to anti-government forces in Iraq
    1976: supporting a coup in Argentina
    1976–1992: intervening in Angola's domestic affairs
    1977–1988: supporting a coup in Pakistan
    1979–1993: supporting anti-government forces in Cambodia
    1979–1989: intervening in the war in Afghanistan
    1980–1989: financing the anti-government Solidarity trade union in Poland
    1980–1992: intervening in El Salvador's civil war
    1981: confronting Libya in Gulf of Sidra
    1981–1982: pushing the change of the then Chadian government
    1982–1984: participating in a multilateral intervention in Lebanon
    1982–1989: supporting anti-government forces in Nicaragua
    1983: invading Grenada
    1986: invading Gulf of Sidra, Libya
    1986: bombing Libya
    1988: shooting down an Iranian airliner
    1988: sending troops to Honduras
    1989: confronting Libya in Tobruk
    1989: intervening in the Philippines' domestic affairs
    1989–1990: invading Panama
    1990–1991: waging the Gulf War
    1991: intervening in Haiti's elections
    1991–2003: leading the enforcement action to establish a no-fly zone in Iraq
    1992–1995: intervening in Somalia's civil war for the first time
    1992–1995: intervening in the Bosnian War
    1994–1995: sending troops to Haiti
    1996: supporting a coup in Iraq
    1997: sending troops to Albania
    1997: sending troops to Sierra Leone
    1998–1999: waging the Kosovo War
    1998: launching cruise missile attacks on Sudan and Afghanistan
    1998–1999: sending troops to Kenya and Tanzania
    2001–present: waging the Afghanistan War
    2002: sending troops to Côte d'Ivoire
    2003–2011: waging the Iraq War
    2004–now: inciting wars between Pakistan and Afghanistan in their contiguous areas
    2006–2007: supporting Fatah, a Palestinian political and military organization, in overthrowing the elected government of Hamas
    2007–present: intervening in Somalia's civil war for the second time
    2009: supporting a coup in Honduras
    2011: supporting anti-government forces in Libya
    2011–2017: carrying out military operations in Uganda
    2014–present: leading the intervention actions in Iraq
    2014–present: leading the intervention actions in Syria
    2015–now: supporting Saudi Arabia's participation in Yemen's civil war
    2019: supporting the change of the Venezuelan government"


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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    1961: supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
    I'll give you that one.

    Quite the list, pretty comprehensive as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    The China Society for Human Rights

    Didn't you know?

    Chinastan is a paragon of yooman rights, Hoohoo told us so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
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    ^Then, it cannot be believed, can it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
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    1989: intervening in the Philippines' domestic affairs
    There are 'flimsy' arguments, and then there are 'piss weak' ones.

    The US certainly likes to war-monger, but including a load of flimsy or piss weak examples only serves to weaken the case against them.

    Exercising some selectivity makes for a stronger argument, not doing so results in straight up propaganda.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    The China Society for Human Rights




    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    ^Then, it cannot be believed, can it?
    Very good, you now understand reality.

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    And now, in a view of a unprecedented humanitarian pandemic disaster sending peacekeepers: off to go eastwards ("no inch eastwards"...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    There are 'flimsy' arguments, and then there are 'piss weak' ones.
    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    And now, in a view of a unprecedented humanitarian pandemic disaster sending peacekeepers: off to go eastwards ("no inch eastwards"...)
    Followed up with indecipherable babble.


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    Thank you all for your comments.

    Don't forget the list posted is only from recent times not from when Spain found NA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Followed up with indecipherable babble.
    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Don't forget the list posted is only from recent times not from when Spain found NA.
    Yup yup yup

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    There are 'flimsy' arguments, and then there are 'piss weak' ones.

    The US certainly likes to war-monger, but including a load of flimsy or piss weak examples only serves to weaken the case against them.
    Some more factual examples, as requested:

    Xinhua Commentary: The original sin of U.S. colonialism

    Source: Xinhua| 2021-04-13 23:00:37|

    Editor: huaxia


    Claiming itself as "the city upon a hill," the United States has always boasted about its role as a preacher for so-called Western-style freedom and democracy.
    H
    owever, beneath the gloss, history facts have exposed that the country was born with original sins starting from colonialism, featuring violence, lies and guile.

    From massacring native Indians to enslaving African people, from racial discrimination making people "unable to breathe" to military interference in other countries, the country called the United States has not changed much its colonialism gene.
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    The native Indians were the first to bear the brunt. "Gradual disappearance of the native tribes ... Miseries accompanying the forced migrations of the Indians," Alexis de Tocqueville, a French thinker and historian, had written in his masterpiece Democracy in America.

    According to the French writer's description in the 19th century, the United States, young at that time, systematically expelled and massacred the Indian aborigines.

    Several American administrations had encouraged the slaughter and suppression of native Indians. In 1814, then U.S. President James Madison issued a decree rewarding 50 to 100 U.S. dollars for every Indian's scalp. From the 1860s to the 1890s, then President Abraham Lincoln promulgated the Homestead Act, allowing every American citizen over 21 years old to obtain land in the west of the country, where native Indians used to live for generations.

    "The American government does not indeed rob them of their lands, but it allows perpetual incursions to be made on them ... they will then be exposed to the same evils without the same remedies, and as the limits of the earth will at last fail them, their only refuge is the grave," wrote Tocqueville in his book referring to the misery of the Indians.

    Besides bloody killing and looting, lies and coercion were also old tricks that the founders of U.S. government and their successors have been apt to use.

    In years after the founding of the United States, most of Indian reservations promised by the government had gradually disappeared.

    When the U.S. government decided to expand westward in the 1860s, buffalos became the critical target as Indians viewed the animal as sacred and lived on it as essential food supply. Hunting and killing buffalos meant destroying native Indians. After decades of hunting by civil hunters as well as the U.S. army, wild buffalos were nearly extinct by 1873.

    The ploy worked as the words of the Sioux leader Sitting Bull went, "a cold wind blew across the prairie when the last buffalo fell -- a death-wind for my people."
    During the period between 1887 and 1933, the native Indians lost about 90 million acres of land. From the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the Indian population plummeted from 5 million to 250,000. A real genocide in human history.

    The U.S. colonial crimes have also been committed outside the country.
    In modern history, the United States annexed the Philippines in 1898 and commenced a formal military occupation of Cuba in 1899. When following European colonist powers to the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society of China, the United States initiated the Open Door policy in 1899, promoting a wave of dividing China according to the interests of Western powers.

    In today's world, the United States remains as a habitual meddler by wantonly interfering in other countries' internal affairs.

    What an irony that a country with such bad records labels itself as the lecturer in human rights teaching other countries how to behave!

    People should be alert to the fact that though the colonialism era has long gone, the aftermath of the colonial crimes such as racism, hegemonism and interventionism still haunts the world.

    Xinhua Commentary: The original sin of U.S. colonialism - Xinhua | English.news.cn

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    If you substitute "Chinastan" for the US, and "Uighurs", "hong kongers" or "Tibetans" for indians or africans, that would be a very good contemporary editorial.


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    "Uighurs", "hong kongers" or "Tibetans"
    Lest not forget the "Uighurs"...

    Wondering if asked these people, they could think you call them names...
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    What on earth are you dribbling on about now?


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    If you substitute "Chinastan" for the US, and "Uighurs"
    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    Lest not forget the "Uighurs"
    He didn't you friggin moron . . . you even quoted his use of the word.

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    Chinese propaganda is now "news"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    Chinese propaganda is now "news"?

    No. But normally hoohoo is decent enough to put his bollocks in his Eurasia thread. For some stupid reason he thinks this deserves its own thread.

    I'm sure the mods will do the needful and either chuck it in that thread or in the shitter where it probably belongs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    I'll give you that one.

    Quite the list, pretty comprehensive as well.

    As there was tonnes of documented material and instances omitted -
    That would be comprehensive.


    ....and the usual crowd would be blind and deaf to it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    Chinese propaganda ....
    Propaganda.

    information
    , ideas, opinions, or images, often only giving one part of an argument, that are broadcast, published, or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people's opinions

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dic...ish/propaganda

    Are you suggesting all the accusations are false?

    One endeavours to be inclusive in one's daily discussions of history, whatever the source.

    This post (#22), includes four countries; China, The United Kingdom, The United States of America and EU.

    Inclusive?

    I find it prompts some to engage in polite discourse and others confirm their "slanted" views.


    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    .... "news"?
    In "World News" as well.



    It appears the site mods concur with its legitimate positioning here.

    One can still find the "country" named China (中国) on a world map I believe.

    Some, The United Kingdom, The United States of America and EU to name but three, appear to be splintering into many smaller disgruntled violent factions.

    You don't read the TD thread,"World News", very often it seems.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    Chinese propaganda
    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Propaganda
    Yes. Propaganda. By Chinese is called: (Brace Yourself, OhNo) Chinese Propaganda

    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    their "slanted" views

    Who or what are you quoting?




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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    China (中国)
    I believe it's written as: 拉屎



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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    Chinese propaganda is now "news"?
    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    In "World News" as well.
    Now in Speakers Corner where it should had been placed from the beginning.
    Opinions from various oracles, propaganda sites, or blogspots is not news.

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