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US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows

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US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows

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2y ago

US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows

geopoliticaleconomy.com /2023/05/18/us-911-wars-million-deaths-displace/

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The argument for dropping nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians I hear the most, is that it would have caused more casualties to continue the war.
Now transfer that logic to the US
- Now this is the kind of debate logic I can get behind.
I'm sure the victims of communism foundation will add these totals to their death tally because somehow this is gommunism's fault.
It's a thing of the past, 2021 was like 5 centuries ago. The US is the good guys now!
The empire never ended
- But we are witnessing its fall and it is glorious
  
  There's nothing to indicate that the empire will not just continue on in another form following the collapse of its american iteration
we should have an emoji of Colin Powell holding up a vial at the UN
- :wmd:
To a lot of Americans, the life of a single American is more important than the lives of thousands of non-westerners. The harsh reality is this goes beyond our government, a lot of everyday Americans are conditioned to see Middle Easterners as barely human.
I mean, most Americans will tell you the War on Terror was bad, but they'll usually just say it was "unnecessary" "because it cost U.S. troops." Then they'll go "9/11 never forget!" for decades to come over 3,000 dead Americans.
- What do you mean by "lol"? This is a serious question. Do you think post-withdrawal deaths in Afghanistan are funny? Do you think that sanctions and the seizure of Afghan funds by the U.S. government after completely harmless because the U.S. military withdrew? Do you think that somehow, despite the U.S. admitting to supporting the Mujahideen (and their numerous terror attacks on innocents) prior to Soviet intervention with the express purpose of undermining and abolishing reforms under democratic rule so that they could supplant Soviet influence in the Mid-East, that they are not responsible for current disorganization and Taliban rule?
  
  Symptoms of permanent smug dunk brain
  
  they just didn't want democracy hard enough, so it's okay that they starve to death now
Project For A New American Century intensifies
I read that the clique around Bush did aim to "pay back" stuff a thousand times, seems that they more or less managed to do that, even though the pay back was genocide against innocent people, which the USA has a tradition that reaches further back then the Vietnam War.

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