Chapter 1841 The Crimes Are Too Numerous to List (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!!!)
Chapter 1841 The crimes are too numerous to list (please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please recommend!!!)
"You know, I am not used to such occasions." Kai refused without any surprise. To be honest, he really has no interest in standing up for the Americans. Although the decline of the United States has nothing to do with Kai, Kai is happy to see such things happen.
After all, the crimes committed by the United States in the era of hegemony are simply too numerous to list!
The United States has always claimed to be the "city on the hill", supporting "natural human rights", shouldering "natural mission", and often using the banner of "humanitarian intervention" to attack foreign countries. Since declaring independence on July 4, 1776, in more than 240 years of history, the United States has not participated in wars for less than 20 years. According to incomplete statistics, from the end of World War II in 1945 to 2001, there were 248 armed conflicts in 153 regions of the world, of which 201 were initiated by the United States, accounting for about 81%. Most of the aggressive wars launched by the United States are unilateral actions, and even opposed by its allies. These wars not only claimed the lives of a large number of soldiers from all sides, but also caused extremely serious civilian casualties and property losses, leading to an astonishing humanitarian disaster. The selfishness and hypocrisy of the United States were also fully revealed through these acts of foreign interference.
There were six major wars of aggression launched by the United States after World War II!
The Korean War, which took place in the early 1950s, was short but extremely bloody. The war caused the deaths of more than 3 million civilians and about 3 million people became refugees. According to North Korean statistics, the war destroyed about 8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals and 600,000 households, and 2 million children under the age of 18 were displaced by the war. The losses of South Korea were as high as 41.23 billion won, equivalent to 6.9 billion US dollars at the official exchange rate; during the war, about 600,000 houses, 46.9% of railways, 1,656 roads, and 1,453 bridges were destroyed in South Korea. In addition, the division of North and South Korea caused by the war also caused a large number of families to be separated. There are about 130,000 Koreans registered with the Ministry of Unification of South Korea with separated families, of whom 75,000 have passed away. The website of the U.S. magazine "The Diplomat" reported on June 25, 2020 that as of November 2019, the average age of members of separated families in South Korea was 81 years old. More than 60% of the 133,370 applicants for reunification since 1988 have died, and most of them have never seen their relatives again after separation.
The Vietnam War, which took place from the 1950s to the 1970s, was the longest and most brutal war after World War II. According to the Vietnamese government's estimate, about 1.1 million North Vietnamese soldiers and 300,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died, and as many as 2 million civilians died in the war, some of whom were systematically massacred by the U.S. military in the name of "fighting the Vietcong." The bombs dropped by the U.S. military in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia exceeded three times the bombs dropped by all parties during World War II. It is estimated that Vietnam still has at least 350,000 tons of explosive bombs and mines left. At the current rate, it will take 300 years to clear them from the land of Vietnam. The Huffington Post website reported on December 3, 2012 that Vietnamese government statistics show that since the war officially ended in 1975, war remnants have killed about 42,000 people. In addition, the US military also dropped 20 million gallons (about 75.71 million liters) of defoliants in Vietnam, killing 400,000 Vietnamese people, and about 2 million Vietnamese people suffered from cancer or other diseases due to exposure to defoliants. The war that lasted for more than a decade caused more than 3 million refugees to flee, and a large number of people died on the way across the ocean. Among the refugees who fled Vietnam, 92% of the respondents said that the effects of defoliants made them feel persistent fatigue, and other manifestations included miscarriage and birth defects. Official US data show that 20% of Vietnam's jungles and 20% to 36% of mangroves were destroyed by defoliants.
In 1991, the US-led coalition invaded Iraq, killing 2,500 to 3,500 civilians and destroying 9,000 houses in air strikes against Iraq. After the war, about 111,000 civilians died due to the destruction of infrastructure and lack of medical care and food. According to estimates by UNICEF, the war and subsequent sanctions caused the deaths of about 500,000 children. During the war, the coalition deliberately destroyed Iraq's infrastructure, resulting in the destruction of most of its power stations (92% of installed capacity), refineries (80% of production capacity), petrochemical complexes, telecommunications centers (including 135 telephone networks), bridges (more than 100), highways, railways, radio and television stations, cement plants, and factories producing aluminum, textiles, wires and medical supplies. The Gulf War also caused serious environmental pollution. About 60 million barrels of oil were dumped into the desert, polluting about 40 million tons of soil; 24 million barrels of oil spilled from oil wells, forming 246 "lakes"; smoke and soot generated by artificially ignited oil wells polluted 953 square kilometers of land. In the Gulf War, the US military also used depleted uranium bombs for the first time.
In March 1999, the NATO army led by the United States, under the banner of "avoiding a humanitarian disaster", openly bypassed the UN Security Council and carried out a continuous bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for 78 days, killing more than 2,000 innocent civilians, injuring more than 6,000 people, displacing nearly 1 million people, and losing more than 2 million people's livelihoods. The NATO army also consciously carried out targeted strikes on the infrastructure of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to eliminate its determination to resist. According to Serbian economists, the total economic losses caused by the bombing were about 29.6 billion US dollars. The bombing caused damage to a large number of bridges, roads, railways, 25,000 households, 176 cultural relics, 69 schools, 19 hospitals and 20 health centers, and 1.5 million children could not go to school. In addition, the NATO army used at least 31,000 depleted uranium bombs, which led to a surge in the incidence of cancer and leukemia in the region, and had a long-term catastrophic impact on the local and entire European ecological environment.
In October 2001, the United States sent troops to Afghanistan, and while fighting against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, it also caused a large number of civilian casualties. Due to the lack of authoritative statistics, all parties have no consensus on the data of civilian casualties in the Afghan war. It is generally believed that since the US military entered Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, more than 30,000 local civilians have been killed, bombed or killed by the US military, and more than 60,000 people have been injured, and about 11 million people have become refugees. After the US military announced its withdrawal in 2014, Afghanistan remained in turmoil. The New York Times website reported on July 30, 2019 that 363 people, including 89 children, were confirmed to have died from US bombs in the first half of 2019. According to the assessment of scholars at Kabul University, the Afghan war caused an average of about US$60 million in economic losses and about 250 casualties every day.
In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq on trumped-up charges despite widespread opposition from the international community. The number of civilian deaths caused by this is difficult to accurately count, and it is estimated to be about 200,000 to 250,000, of which more than 16,000 were directly killed by the US military. In addition, the US military has seriously violated international humanitarian principles and committed many prisoner abuse incidents. After the United States announced its withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, local wars and attacks continued. The coalition led by the United States also used a large number of depleted uranium bombs, cluster bombs and white phosphorus bombs in Iraq, and did not take any measures to minimize the harm to civilians. According to the United Nations, there are still about 25 million mines and other explosive remnants in Iraq that need to be cleared. At present, the United States has not yet fulfilled its promise to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Since World War II, almost all American presidents have launched or intervened in foreign wars during their tenure. The reasons for the war include "preventing the spread of communism", "upholding justice", "stopping aggression", "humanitarian intervention", combating terrorism, preventing the proliferation of "weapons of mass destruction", protecting the safety of American expatriates, etc. Among them, only one was a counterattack against the United States after a direct terrorist attack on the mainland, and the others were proactive foreign military actions without direct connection to the vital interests of the United States. Even this one "legitimate defense" was obviously excessive defense: under the banner of "eliminating the threat of al-Qaeda", the US military, in line with the principle of "better to kill by mistake than to miss", arbitrarily expanded the scope of attack in the anti-terrorism war, causing a large number of local civilian casualties; even if the US military claimed to have used "relatively accurate" drone attacks, the phenomenon of killing innocent people still occurred repeatedly.
From the procedures followed by the United States in using force abroad, some of them launched military strikes abroad through the "legal channel" of the Security Council authorization after manipulating the United Nations, but more of them threw the Security Council aside, ignored the opposition of other countries and even allies, and insisted on attacking an independent sovereign country, and even provoked war abroad without the approval of the US Congress, which has the only legal right to declare war.
From the consequences, the foreign wars launched by the United States have triggered various regional and international crises. The war directly led to humanitarian disasters in the countries concerned, including casualties, damage to facilities, and stagnation of production, especially causing a large number of innocent civilian casualties. In areas where the war has spread, people have died in their homes, in markets, and on the roads, from bombs, bullets, improvised explosive devices, drones, US air strikes, government raids, massacres by terrorist and extremist organizations, and domestic riots.
War has brought about a series of complex social problems, including refugee flows, social unrest, ecological crises, psychological trauma, etc. According to statistics, several wars involving the US military in recent years have resulted in a high number of refugees, such as 11 million people in Afghanistan, 380,000 people in Pakistan, 3.25 million people in Iraq, and 12.59 million people in Syria. These refugees were forced to leave their homes. About 1.3 million Afghan refugees fled to Pakistan, and about 900,000 fled to Iran. About 3.5 million Iraqi and Syrian refugees fled to Turkey, and about 1 million fled to Iran. In Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, the number of casualties caused by lack of medical treatment, malnutrition and environmental pollution far exceeds the number of direct casualties caused by war. It is estimated that the number of deaths caused by non-war direct causes is four times the number of direct deaths caused by war. The uranium content per kilogram of soil in Basra, Iraq, has soared from less than 70 becquerels before 1991 to 10,000 becquerels in 2009, and as high as 36,205 becquerels in areas where war material remains. The British "Guardian" website reported on August 22, 2016 that the birth rate of babies with congenital defects in Iraq in 2010 was as high as 30%, while under normal circumstances this figure is only 2% to 4%.
The war launched by the United States also produced spillover effects, causing harm to countries not involved. For example, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. military spread the war to neighboring countries such as Cambodia and Laos in the name of blocking the "Ho Chi Minh Trail," resulting in the deaths and injuries of more than 500,000 innocent civilians and leaving behind a large amount of unexploded ordnance. During the war in Afghanistan, when fighting terrorists, US military aircraft and drones often dropped bombs on neighboring Pakistani villages, injuring innocent people. Even wedding cars and Pakistani border guards were not spared.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has launched a total of 32 wars or military interventions...not counting the secretly provoked struggles and various subversive activities. It can be said that the United States has become the biggest cancer in the world. Seriously calculated, the damage caused to the world by the United States initiated, provoked and caused by its peak activities has long exceeded the damage caused by the Nazis to the world!
For Kai, such a country's fall from world hegemony is a happy thing in itself.
At least after the fall of the United States from hegemony, the country's overall policy has begun to shift towards softness and communication, instead of being like a porcupine with fried hair, pricking the whole world with thorns when it is unhappy.
They have formed a path dependence on war in the past, and the domestic economy is not good? Start a war! Need raw materials from other countries? Start a war! Want to maintain dollar hegemony? Start a war!
In short, any conflicts and needs in the United States can be solved through war. It is simply the only magic weapon to transfer conflicts and boost the economy.
Now the United States does not have the ability to wage war everywhere... It can be said to be gratifying.
As for re-boosting the United States' international prestige, Kay has no interest at all.
"But... you also know that this guy Tianqi is very ambitious. If he does something small, it will be difficult for ordinary people to detect it. And because of some of his ideas, we have concerns about sending mutant ginseng. So you are the best choice. ”
Benjamin was not surprised by Kai's choice. Kai himself was quite resistant to politics. From becoming famous to now, Kai rarely participated in any political activities. In the past, Benjamin was very satisfied with this. After all, it meant that Kai was very To be honest, I have never thought about using my influence to cause trouble. This is undoubtedly a good thing for the supreme leader of a regime.
But now...it seems that good things have turned into bad things.
"Benjamin, I have to remind you that if you start to distrust mutants or even start to doubt them, it will undoubtedly push them to the apocalypse. In this case, I need you to carefully consider what you should do. choose."
After hearing Benjamin's reasons, Kai decided to remind him that mutants have finally eased their relationship with ordinary people. If the U.S. government suddenly begins to doubt or even exclude mutants, everything before will be in vain. And it will destroy the relationship that was finally eased. And all of this is only good for extreme mutants like Apocalypse.
"You know, the mutants who will stay in the United States and join the government are basically moderate mutants. They are different from the mutants who left. I guess you don't want any accidents to happen, right?" Kai didn't deny that the United States is now Among the mutants who stayed, there were those who hooked up with extremist mutants, but if they did what Benjamin did just now, they would definitely overturn a whole boat of people with one shot.
"I know, but the matter is too important. We have no choice but to be careless, and in fact, we still believe in our warriors. However, Apocalypse... is too powerful. I'm afraid that our mutant warriors are no match at all."
Only then did Benjamin express his deepest worries.
This time, Benjamin and major national leaders will appear at the signing of the peace agreement. Among them, the United States is the main promoter of this peace agreement, and Benjamin must be present. In addition to the fact that this agreement is too important, more importantly, this will be a huge personal achievement for Benjamin, and he does not want to give up.
"If you're worried about this... I have a few candidates for you to choose from."