A new study came out recently about how many deaths have resulted from the US’ “war on terror” post-9/11 (Ben Norton talks about it on a recent ep of his “Geopolitical Economy Report” podcast). The conservative number is 4.5 million deaths. About 1 million of that related to war deaths, and the rest are due to causes related to war like destroyed sewage systems making people sick and dying. Plenty of children in that numbers. Millions more face imminent threat to their lives due to things like famine in Afghanistan - for which the US is to blame. Tens of millions more displaced.
Do you know how many Americans have died in wars in the country’a entire existence? Wikipedia says under 700k combat deaths and under 1.4 million total deaths. So just in a little over 20 years, Americans soldiers have caused the deaths of over 3x as many Americans soldiers have died in all our ways combined.
So, I give no respect at all to dead US soldiers. In the past I’ve tried to bring up all the past evil like Korea and Vietnam. People in IRL just tell me “well that was a long time ago we don’t do that now”. Yes, we do. Here’s the receipts.
Death to America.
I celebrate memorial day because dead US soldiers are good, actually
Since the end of WW2 the US/NATO have killed more civilians through direct application of military violence, destruction of their built environment, and by fomenting/arming violent groups or regimes than there have been civilian homicides.
Do you have a source for that? Because I would love to throw that statistic around in casual conversation
Plus weren’t like half those deaths from Americans killing each other in the civil war?
I will celebrate the heroic troops of Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, DPRK, and all the rest who oppose the amerikkkan dogs. :rat-salute:
This Memorial Day, we should try actually remembering all the war crimes our troops committed.
