War has become a huge money-making venture, and the U.S. government, with its vast military empire, is one of its best buyers and sellers.
The idea that America is a defender of democracy, liberty and human rights would come as a huge surprise to those who saw their democratically elected governments subverted and overthrown by the United States in Panama (1941), Syria (1949), Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Congo (1960), Brazil (1964), Chile (1973), Honduras (2009) and Egypt (2013). And this list does not include a host of other governments that, however despotic, as was the case in South Vietnam, Indonesia or Iraq, were viewed as inimical to American interests and destroyed, in each case making life for the inhabitants of these countries even more miserable.
But, What would the American people think if they knew the truth, that their entire military-industrial complex was never built for the protection of the “free world” in opposition to dictators and despots but rather the very opposite? That it simply thought its ideology the superior one, the only lawful dictatorship that had the right to rule, even if it meant by force.
For instance, presently, They are trying to overthrow governments in several independent countries, on different continents. From Bolivia, the country has been already destroyed, to Venezuela, from Iraq to Iran, to China and Russia. The more successful these countries get, the better they serve their people, the more vicious the attacks from the west are, the tougher the embargos and sanctions imposed on them are. The happier the citizens are, the more grotesque the propaganda disseminated from the West gets.
Just recall all the fanciful promises for fundamentally changing the calculus in the Middle East, the US has not come even close to shifting the balance of power toward the US by creating a new block of pro-US “democracies.” Mostly, the US has sown chaos in the region, paved the way for terrorist groups, and reaffirmed support for some of the worst dictators and regimes in the region.
All of this was bought and paid for by thousands of US lives and hundreds of thousands of lives in the invaded countries. And by trillions of US dollars.
The U.S. government has spent $4.8 trillion on wars abroad since 9/11, with $7.9 trillion in interest: that’s a tax burden of more than $16,000 per American. Almost a quarter of that debt was incurred as a result of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. These wars have been paid for almost entirely by borrowing money from foreign nations and the U.S. Treasury. As the Atlantic points out, Americans fight these wars with a credit card. According to the Watson Institute for Public Affairs at Brown University, interest payments on what U.S. already borrowed for these failed wars could total over $7.9 trillion by 2053 while defense contractors get richer than their wildest dreams.
In truth, The last decades since world war II have been little more than the US regime spinning its wheels, all while condemning millions to a new reality of greater death, disability, and poverty so that the US military complex cash-in massive wealth. On the other side, The U.S. government spent more on wars (and military occupations) abroad every year than all 50 states combined spent on health, education, welfare, and safety.
