« THE ART OF WAR »
From
1945 until today - 20 to 30 million people killed by the USA
by Manlio Dinucci
In the summary of its last strategic document - 2018 National
Defense Strategy of the United States of America (of which the entire text
is classified) - the Pentagon claims that « after the Second World War,
the United States and their allies installed a « free and open
international order in order to safeguard the freedom of the people from
aggression and coercion », but that « this order is presently
undermined by Russia and China, who are violating the principles and rules of
international relations ». This is a total reversal of historical reality.
Professor Michel Chossudovsky, director of the Center for Research on
Globalization, reminds us that these two countries, listed today as enemies,
are those which, when they were allied with the United States during the Second
World War, paid the victory over the Nazi-fascist Axis Berlin-Rome-Tokyo with the greatest price
in human lives – approximately 26 million from the Soviet Union and 20 million
from China, compared with a little more than 400,000 from the United States.
With this preliminary, Chossudovsky introduces to Global Research a
documented study by James A. Lucas on the number of people killed by the
uninterrupted series of wars, coups d’État and other subversive operations
executed by the United States from the end of the War in 1945 until now – a
number estimated at 20 to 30 million victims [1]. Approximately twice the
number of deaths from the First World War, the centenary of the end of which
has just been celebrated in Paris with a Peace Forum.
Apart from the deaths, there are the wounded, who very often find
themselves crippled for life – some experts calculate that for every person
killed in war, ten others are wounded. This means that the number of people
wounded by US wars should be counted in the hundreds of millions.
To this estimation in the study we must add a non-quantified number of
dead, probably hundreds of millions, which have been caused, from 1945 until
today, by the indirect effects of wars -
famine, epidemics, forced migrations, slavery and exploitation, environmental
damage, subtraction of resources from vital needs in order to cover military
expenditure.
The study documents the wars and coups d’État executed by the United
States in 30 Asian, African, European and Latin-American countries. It reveals
that US military forces are directly responsible for between 10 and 15 million
deaths, caused by the major wars – those against Korea and Vietnam and the two
wars against Iraq. Between 10 and 14 million other deaths have been caused by
the proxy wars waged by the allied armed forces trained and commanded by the
USA in Afghanistan, Angola, Congo, Sudan, Guatemala and other countries.
The Vietnam War, which spread to Cambodia and Laos, caused a number of
deaths estimated at 7.8 million (plus a huge number of wounded, and genetic
damage affecting generations due to the dioxin sprayed by US aircraft).
The proxy war of the 1980's in Afghanistan was organised by the CIA,
which trained and armed – with the collaboration of Oussama ben Laden and
Pakistan – more than 100,000 mujahideen to fight the Soviet troops who had
fallen into the « Afghan trap » (as it was later described by
Zbigniew Brzezinski, specifying that the training of the mujahideen had begun
in July 1979, five months before the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan).
The bloodiest coup d’État was organised in 1965 in Indonesia by the CIA
– it handed over the list of the first 5,000 Communists and others marked for
death to the Indonesian murder squads. The number of people assassinated is
estimated at between 500,000 and 3 million.
That is the « free and open international order » that the
United States, independently of the White House, persist in pursuing in order
to « safeguard the people from aggression and coercion ».
[1] “US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37
“Victim Nations” Since World War II”, James A. Lucas, November 27, 2017.
il manifesto, November 20, 2018
Translation: Pete Kimberley
Source: Réseau Voltaire
NO WAR NO NATO
Manlio Dinucci
Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest books are: Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018.
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