Tale of Two “Invaders”: the Threatener, the Threatened

A short History of Unwanted nuclear-powered “Caravans”

Americans either ignorant, amnesiac or paranoid and just plain self-centered would rather raise a wall of waste instead of feeding their own education. They would rather raise their ire against “foreigner” neighbors knocking on “our” borders instead of opening their minds and raising their voices against a centuries breach in blood far worse than a bedraggled caravan.

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mericans feign ignorance of the grave and shameful reality of U.S. leadership’s (legislative, congressional, judicial) acts, orders and/or acquiescence to violent aggression against more than a hundred countries around the world, including and most particularly the countries of the Americas.

Yet U.S. leadership’s global aggression and occupation — often uninvited, years-long opposition (from Okinawa Islanders, Syrians and Yemeni, Pakistanis and Afghans) — is without match in its cruelty, criminality and impunity in just the 20th and 21st centuries without touching on the U.S. crimes of aggression staining earlier centuries with blood!

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SA foreign occupation

Breach of international law

The United States of America is the largest operator of military bases in places (sovereign nations, indigenous lands, countries, islands) outside the land and borders of the United States.

Posted in 150 countries of the world, the U.S. military’s “active-duty personnel” are estimated at 170,000—with personnel, arms sales, remotely-operated killer missiles, landmines and varieties of lethal weaponry at the ready and to be employed any time politicians and their partners decide to invade, stoke conflict, or otherwise interfere (with violence instead of verbal negotiation and engagement) in the affairs of other nations and peoples.  

Though the United States, through its leaders at the time, ratified the 1945 UN Charter, “the preeminent international law document,” Article 2 of which prohibits, except in very limited circumstances, the threat or use of force in international relations—thus placing a high bar on any attempt by foreign powers to justify, on legal ground, any regime change—the United States, before and long after World War II, and to the present day, has persisted in regime change in other countries, in direct violation of international law.  

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enturies long U.S. offensive 
violent aggression, interventions, invasions

Lawless Practice of Regime Change

U.S. Presidents 1945-2018: Harry S. Truman (Democratic Party 1945–53); Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican Party 1953–61); John F. Kennedy (Democratic Party 1961–63); Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic Party 1963–69); Richard M. Nixon (Republican Party 1969–74); Gerald R. Ford (Republican Party 1974–77); Jimmy Carter (Democratic Party 1977–81); Ronald Reagan Ill (Republican Party 1981–89); George H.W. Bush (Republican Party 1989–93); Bill Clinton (Democratic Party 1993–2001); George W. Bush (Republican Party 2001–09); Barack Obama (Democratic Party 2009–2016); Donald John Trump (Republican (?)Party 2016- )

20th Century U.S. wars, invasions, interference	20th Century U.S. wars, invasions, interference cont.	21ST Century U.S. wars, invasions, interference
Korean War (1950–1953) Location: Korea	Lebanese Civil War (1982–1984) Location: Lebanon	War in Afghanistan (2001–present) Location: Afghanistan
Operation Ajax(1953) Location: Tehran, Imperial State of Iran	Invasion of Grenada (1983) Location: Grenada	Iraq War (2003–2011) Location: Iraq
Laotian Civil War (1953–1975) Location: Laos	Action in the Gulf of Sidra (1986) US forces & Libya Location: Gulf of Sidra	War in North-West Pakistan (2004–present) Location: Pakistan
Lebanon Crisis (1958) Location: Lebanon	Bombing of Libya(1986) Location: Libya	War in Somalia (2007–present) Location: Somalia and Northeastern Kenya
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Location: Cuba	Tanker War (1987–1988) Location: Persian Gulf	Operation Ocean Shield (2009–2016) Location: Indian Ocean
Vietnam War (1965–1973-1975 Location: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos	Tobruk encounter(1989) Location: Mediterranean Sea	American-led intervention in Libya (2011) Location: Libya
Communist insurgency in Thailand (1965-1983) Location: Thailand	Invasion of Panama (1989–1990) Location: Panama	Operation Observant Compass (2011-2017) Location: Uganda
Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–1969) Location: Korean Demilitarized Zone	Gulf War (1990–1991) Location: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Israel	American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2017) Location: Iraq
Dominican Civil War (1965–1966) Location: Dominican Republic	Iraqi No-Fly Zone Enforcement Operations (1991–2003) Location: Iraq	American-led intervention in Syria (2014–present) Location: Syria
Insurgency in Bolivia (1966–1967) Location: Bolivia	First Intervention in the Somali Civil War (1992–1995) Location: Somalia	Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) Location: Yemen
Cambodian Civil War (1967–1975) Location: Cambodia	Bosnian War (1992-1995) Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina	American intervention in Libya (2015–present) Location: Libya [END 21ST]
War in South Zaire (1978) Location: Zaire	Intervention in Haiti (1994-1995) Location: Haiti
Gulf of Sidra encounter (1981) Location: Gulf of Sidra	Kosovo War (1998–1999) Location: Serbia
	Operation Infinite Reach (1998) Location: Sudan and Afghanistan  [END 20TH]
1940s-1950s Regime CH 1945–1950: South Korea 1946–1949: China 1946–1949: Greece 1952: Egypt 1947–1970s: Italy 1949: Syria 1950s 1953: Iran 1954: Guatemala 1955–1960: Laos 1956, 1957 Failed coup plots against Syria 1957–1959: Indonesia 1958: Lebanon 1959: Iraq 1960s 1960: Laos 1961: Bay of Pigs The CIA orchestrated a force composed of CIA-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba with support and equipment from the US military, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. 1960s: Cuba 1961–1964: Brazil 1963: Iraq 1963: Vietnam 1965–66: Dominican Republic 1965–1967: Indonesia	1970s Regime Change 1971: Bolivia 1973: Chile 1979–1989: Afghanistan 1980s 1980–1992: El Salvador 1982–1989: Nicaragua 1983: Grenada 1989: Panama Post Cold War 1990s 1991: Kuwait 1991: Haiti 1991–2003: Iraq 1994–2000: Iraq 1997: Indonesia	2000s Regime Change 2000: Yugoslavia 2005: Iran 2006–07: Palestinian territories Post-2005 - Syria 2010s 2011 Libya 2015 - present Yemen END 1940s-2000s REGIME CHANGE ESTIMATES

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SA nuclear Aggression

The United States is neither a victim nor under threat by any nation or people.

The United States is the only country in history to have used nuclear weapons against another country.

The estimated nuclear weapons arsenal (deployment or storage) of the United States, as of 2017, was “4,018 nuclear weapons.”

Another year of ending-November Thursdays and Black Fridays and Americans gorging themselves on everything and anything; thanking their gods yet feeling unfulfilled and blaming “foreigners” for their frustrating, unspecified failures—

America! America! In a moment of reflection Crown thy good with Brotherhood from sea to shining sea!

Sources

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases#United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deployments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States#20th-century_wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror

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