It's an inherent quality of government. Since WWII, the US has killed somewhere around 20 million people during their various adventures around the globe. The Soviet Union killed an equivalent amount, perhaps up to three times as much, but both are staggering, horrifying numbers.
Well, the US has had 3k or so killed in the past 15 years. In response it killed hundreds of thousands and caused widespread devastation and misery in several foreign wars.
These wars created multiple large transnational extremist anti-US movements that now have advanced military equipment, are skilled veterans of war, and are spreading their influence to neighboring countries.
So roughly 100 were killed for every american dead in 9/11. Thas's a harsh punishment, US certainly doesn't know what mercy is .
Edit: missed by two orders of magnitude. Still, a lot.
Also: not a blame, just observations.
The US has killed in excess of a million people in the Middle East. Around 650 000 people died as a result of the Iraq War, around 50 000 in Afghanistan, around 400 000 in Syria and around 20 000 in Lybia.
Of course, neither were purely by the US but rather by a Coalition, but none of them would have happened if it wasn't for the US.
I also include deaths from destruction of infrastructure and subsequent power vacuums, as is customary for crimes against humanity.
The US has not killed millions of people in the last 15 years that is just a blatantly false statement. A quick search on Google or Wikipedia will refute your claim instantly.
Can you provide a decent source for your millions of casualties claim or for you claim about the US toppling more Governments than Russia/China? I bet you can’t.
Judging by your username I believe you know some things about history. Why spread false info?
2) By the same simplistic reasoning, Americans killed 20-30 million [1] just by themselves. I'm not sure what the totals would look like after adding in the British, French, Dutch, etc. empires.
3) I'm almost certain that that 100 million figure includes revolutions caused as a direct result of imperial powers meddling in the affairs of local populations. E.g. Cambodia [2]. That's the part that's "overly zealous".
You mean Americans stopped killing people around the world for resources? At what point did the US not kill people in the last 50 years? Or the last 100 years?
Philippines early 1900s, that was called the first Vietnam. Close to 1 million killed.
Korea: 2 million killed.
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos: 4 million killed.
Iraq from 1991 to 1995 alone: 0.5 million infants killed by sanctions that denied life-saving drugs to kids who didn't even know they were Iraqis. And the Clinton administration Secy of State said that the cost was "worth it."
Iraq from 2003 to date: 1 million+ killed, many more maimed and traumatized, many more displaced.
That you call "deliver on its promises"...? Or do you not count it when the victims are non-American and the promise was for Americans only?
Ha, it almost seems like you're saying that since the US doesn't keep good track of how many civilians they've murdered with "signature strikes", no one can claim that "lots of innocent people are dying". Even when many reports and groups say that lots of innocent people are dying, including the article you're quoting.
That would by psychotic though, so I'm surely misinterpreting what your actual point is. Care to clarify?
The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-mil...
It's all just numbers to Americans. Zero empathy to the chaos caused throughout the world.
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