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Yes, just like Russia, China, and some European countries
Incomparable.
USA is by far and away the global leader in militaristic imposed resource hegemony.
Far and away as the above list clearly demonstrates.
The wealth of nations and their citizens is substantially derivative of the power projection they possess and exercise- it is not just about 'free markets' as the US Exceptionalists and Libertarians like to delude themselves- it is about brute force military attacks, assassinations, kidnappings, torture and murder.
The petrodollar and US wealth is backed by US military and the brute force it imposes upon almost all other nations either directly or by threat of use.
Without it the USA would not enjoy the wealth it does.
You truly are the dumbest person I ever met. @BlokchainB look at this guy. Notice how he dodged your call earlier. @Undisciplined he's such a coward he has to run here and harass someone living under a dictatorship and won't comment on the post that's been up for almost a full 24 hours. Truly an embarrassment to humanity.
You have to be human to be an embarrassment to humanity
You have to be able to engage in a reasoned debate to claim that you can and do apply reason rather than the cheap alternative which you and trolls generally prefer which is to attack the messenger while leaving the message unrefuted.
Ok
You complain I have not engaged in the dialogue and then when I do you fail completely to respond to any of the facts and issues I have responded with...instead continuing to indulge in your trolling and personal attacks rather than engaging in good faith reasoned contest of ideas.
Just ignore it.
Well fun fact his AI generated list (at least I hope it is with how bad the list is) repeats Laos, lists every country from WWI and WWII (I am 99.9% sure that France, Greece, Northern Africa, Burma, Micronesia, etc. etc. were not exactly loving the Axis Powers). Oddly enough lists all the countries that did not exist during the Spanish American War.... Somehow because the US had warships around Turkey we invaded them but the US never fired a shot and it was the Greeks and Turkish fighting. Another oddity is after we purchased the Virgin Islands from the Danish in 1917 we invaded them in 1989 however nothing happened that year?? Invading Kuwait is hilarious as well when we just defended them after they were invaded and somehow since we had troops in Saudi Arabia from 1990-1991 as part of the joint operation to free Kuwait and also because ya know we were honoring our security pact we signed with them in 1951. We also got an 1890 invasion of Argentina that before even the Spanish American war!
Mind you he then tries to highlight avoidable deaths from 1950-2005 but doesnt mention how one man named good ol Mao was responsible for between 44 and 72 million between 1949 and 1976 alone! Stalin was a workhorse as well with an estimated 20 million minimum and 6 million between 1932-1933 alone!
The deaths of Chinese during Maos era were deaths inflicted upon Chinese.
USSR suffered 20 odd millions casualties in WW2 and Stalin is considered to have been responsible for millions more...but these again are domestic deaths not those as a result of external aggression upon other nations.
The list above is instances where the USA has invaded OTHER COUNTRIES.
Do you understand the not so subtle difference? ...
Because it is entirely relevant when we seek to consider the degree of external power projection of relative nations- and the historical facts strongly indicate that the USA stands out head and shoulders above all others at least since WW2 in regard to imposing its will and military aggression upon OTHER NATIONS.
unbearable
Truth.
You do not like being reminded of the multiple examples of US imperialism.
Tough.
Deal with reality- the people bombed and assassinated, hit with drone strikes, losing their governments to US imposed puppet rulers have to deal with it too.
I don't need to be reminded. I'm not an American, I don't live there, I don't vote there, I don't pay their taxes. You're just blindly pasting your crap over and over, without even thinking about who the fuck you are talking to. You're preaching to the choir. So shut the fuck up and do something useful.
The USA is a terrorist and rogue state.
Its wealth is based upon military violence, kidnappings, murders, torture, drone strikes, CIA orchestrated coups, assassinations, coercion and stand over tactics
Petrodollar hegemony is backed by the US military.
Nations USA has invaded up to 2013 -
(1) American Indian nations (1776 onwards, American Indian Genocide; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1844, Indians banned from east of the Mississippi; 1861 onwards, California genocide; 1890, Lakota Indians massacre), (2) Mexico (1836-1846; 1913; 1914-1918;
1923), (3) Nicaragua (1856-1857; 1894; 1896; 1898; 1899; 1907; 1910; 1912-1933; 1981-1990), (4) American forces deployed against Americans (1861-1865, Civil War; 1892; 1894; 1898; 1899-1901; 1901; 1914; 1915; 1920-1921; 1932; 1943; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1973; 1992; 2001), (5), Argentina (1890), (6), Chile (1891; 1973), (7) Haiti (1891; 1914-1934; 1994; 2004-2005), (8) Hawaii (1893-), (9) China (1895-1895; 1898-1900; 1911-1941; 1922-1927; 1927-1934; 1948-1949; 1951-1953; 1958), (10) Korea (1894-1896; 1904-1905; 1951-1953), (11) Panama (1895; 1901-1914; 1908; 1912; 1918-1920; 1925; 1958; 1964; 1989-), (12) Philippines (1898-1910; 1948-1954; 1989; 2002-), (13) Cuba (1898-1902; 1906-1909; 1912; 1917-1933; 1961; 1962), (14) Puerto Rico (1898-; 1950; ); (15) Guam (1898-), (16) Samoa (1899-), (17) Honduras (1903; 1907; 1911; 1912; 1919; 1924-1925; 1983-1989), (18) Dominican Republic (1903-1904; 1914; 1916-1924; 1965-1966), (19) Germany (1917-1918; 1941-1945; 1948; 1961), (20) Russia (1918-1922), (21) Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999), (22) Guatemala (1920; 1954; 1966-1967), (23) Turkey (1922), (24) El Salvador (1932; 1981-1992), (25) Italy (1941-1945); (26) Morocco (1941-1945), (27) France (1941-1945), (28) Algeria (1941-1945), (29) Tunisia (1941-1945), (30) Libya (1941-1945; 1981; 1986; 1989; 2011), (31) Egypt (1941-1945; 1956; 1967; 1973; 2013), (32) India (1941-1945), (33) Burma (1941-1945), (34) Micronesia (1941-1945), (35) Papua New Guinea (1941-1945), (36) Vanuatu (1941-1945), (37) Austria (1941-1945), (38) Hungary (1941-1945), (39) Japan (1941-1945), (40) Iran (1946; 1953; 1980; 1984; 1987-1988; ), (41) Uruguay (1947), (42) Greece (1947-1949), (43) Vietnam (1954; 1960-1975), (44) Lebanon (1958; 1982-1984), (45) Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011), (46) Laos (1962-), (47) Indonesia (1965), (48) Cambodia (1969-1975; 1975), (49) Oman (1970), (50) Laos (1971-1973), (51) Angola (1976-1992), (52) Grenada (1983-1984), (53) Bolivia (1986; ), (54) Virgin Islands (1989), (55) Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003), (56) Saudi Arabia (1990-1991), (57) Kuwait (1991), (58) Somalia (1992-1994; 2006), (59) Bosnia (1993-), (60) Zaire (Congo) (1996-1997), (61) Albania (1997), (62) Sudan (1998), (63) Afghanistan (1998; 2001-), (64) Yemen (2000; 2002-), (65) Macedonia (2001), (66) Colombia (2002-), (67) Pakistan (2005-), (68) Syria (2008; 2011-), (69) Uganda (2011), (70) Mali (2013), (71) Niger (2013).
Here is a summary of post-1950 avoidable mortality/ 2005 population (both in millions, m) and expressed as a percentage (%) for each country occupied by the US in the post-1945 era. The asterisk () indicates a major occupation by more than one country in the post-WW2 era (thus, for example, the UK and the US have been major occupiers of Afghanistan , Iraq and Korea , leaving aside the many other minor participants in these conflicts). Data is also given for the US: US [8.455m/300.038m = 2.8%], Afghanistan [16.609m/25.971m = 64.0%], Cambodia* [5.852m/14.825m = 39.5%], Dominican Republic [0.806m/8.998m = 9.0%], Federated States of Micronesia [0.016m/0.111m = 14.4%], Greece* [0.027m/10.978m = 0.2%], Grenada* [0.018m/0.121m = 14.9%], Guam [0.005m/0.168m = 3.0%], Haiti* [4.089m/8.549m = 47.9%], Iraq* [5.283m/26.555m = 19.9%], Korea* [7.958m/71.058m = 11.2%], Laos* [2.653m/5.918m = 44.8%], Panama [0.172m/3.235m = 5.3%], Philippines [9.080m/82.809m = 11.0%], Puerto Rico [0.039m/3.915m = 1.0%], Somalia* [5.568m/10.742m = 51.8%], US Virgin Islands [0.003m/0.113m = 2.4%], Vietnam* [24.015m/83.585m = 28.7%], total = 82.193m/357.651m = 23.0%.
Thus in the period 1950-2005 there have been 82 million avoidable deaths from deprivation (avoidable mortality, excess deaths, excess mortality , deaths that did not have to happen) associated with countries occupied by the US in the post-1945 era.