More than a Century of Foreign Intervention
Americans seem to like that word so much so that when the sadists in and around Washington attacked Iraq under demonically false charges in 2003—they like demonizing too—they named their murderous spree “Shock and Awe.”
When Americans led by government officials and loud media are not feigning “thoughts” and “prayers” and thanking unwilling sheep for sacrificing themselves to slaughter or mental maiming, they are feigning shock.
- · Shock for rabid violence.
- · Shock for rabid corruption in and around government.
- · Shock for homelessness and poverty and inferior education and rabid drug takingAnd, yes, as this New York Post author is shocked that people forced from their homelands by actions taken by USA entities are further injured on entry or when trying to enter the USA.
Migrants are “deposited on the streets of (U.S.) cities and in towns of border states.” Some are “transported to destinations around the country where they are often isolated and vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking.”
Migrants are often picked up by traffickers promising jobs but who “lure them into indentured servitude, peonage, sex trafficking, extortion.” Traffickers will “demand” that migrants “pay off their debts by working for smugglers.” New York Post January 1, 2023 by Jessica M. Vaughan “Biden’s border policies facilitate shocking modern slavery,” https://nypost.com/2023/01/10/bidens-border-policies-facilitate-shocking-modern-slavery/
Americans also have deliberately short memories. They present a character of calculated ignorance. They love casting blame. All of these the writer demonstrates.
But the story is much bigger and deeper—far more horrendous—then the writer pretends. There is always a prior, a previous happening.
In this case, the prior is a decade’s long unquestioned (unchecked and unchastened) phenomenon: United States officials and their partners and paymasters’ interfering with violent aggression in other nations all across Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Below is reflected part of the phenomena of injury inflicted on people long before they become migrants; and land on the borders of people who take pride in inflicting further injury on migrants and on the homelands of people forced by foreign aggression and interference to leave their homelands.
USA Foreign Invasions, Interventions Involvement in Regime Changes
Pre-Cold War
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Cold War era (1947-1991)
Italy
(1948–1960s)
Coup d’état
Syria (1949)
Albania
(1949–1953)
Coup d’état
Iran (1953)
Coup d’état
Guatemala (1954)
Syria
(1956–1957)
Indonesia
(1957–1958)
Assassination attempts on Fidel
Castro (1959–2000)
Cambodia,
Bangkok Plot to topple Prince Norodom Sihanouk (1959)
Coup d’état
Congo (1960)
Bay of
Pigs Invasion/Cuba (1961)
Operation
Mongoose/Cuba (1961)
Dominican
Republic (1961)
Coup d’état
South Vietnam (1963)
Coup d’état
Brazil (1964)
Dominican
Civil War (1965)
Indonesia
(1965–1966)
Coup d’état
Brazil Ghana (1966)
Coup d’état
Bolivia (1971)
Coup d’état
Chile (1973)
Chile
(1970–1973)
Angolan
Civil War (Cold War era Communist v
anti-Communists 1975–1992; 1st and 2nd Congo War1996-2002)
Coup d’état
Argentina (1976)
Coup d’état
El Salvador (1979)
“Operation Cyclone” Afghanistan
(1979–1989)
Nicaragua,
Contras (1981–1990)
Somalia
1981/1988/1991- present
Chad
(1982)
United
States invasion of Grenada (1983)
United States invasion of Panama
(1989-1990)
Post Cold War 1991-Present
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1991-2013-2014-present [In a December
2013 speech before the “US–Ukraine Foundation,” a U.S. State Dept employee
revealed that “the US had spent about $5 billion on democracy-building programs (read: programs of internal meddling,
indoctrination, destabilization) in Ukraine since 1991” (emphasis added) |
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1991 Iraq |
2003–2021: Iraq |
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1991 Haiti |
2004: Haiti (coup d’ état) |
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1992-1996 Iraq |
2005: Kyrgyzstan |
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1994–1995: Haiti |
2006–2007: Palestinian Territories |
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1996 Coup d’état attempt: Iraq |
2005–2009: Syria |
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1996–1997: Zaire |
2011: Libya |
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1999: Bombing of Yugoslavia |
2012–2017: Syria |
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2000: FR Yugoslavia |
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2001–2021: Afghanistan |
2015-present: United States
Army SF/ Navy supported KSA in Yemen/Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict |
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U throughout the history of the United States of America.
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Some “400 military interventions between 1776 and 2019” have been documented. Half of these occurred since 1950. More than a quarter of them occurred during the post-Cold War era.
A variety of objectives were asserted by someone. Al involved force, aggression, harm. Interventions have been reported to have “revolved around economy, territory, social protection, regime change, protection of US citizens and diplomats, policy change, empire, and regime building.
All have involved force, aggression, harm. All involved waste, want, fraud, and abuse. All caused migration, displacement, disease, starvation, illness, injury to mind and body.
