I see a lot of people, usually coastal liberals and Europeans, claiming that Trump is some sort of menace that’s destroyed the good thing that is American interventionism. “Reputation destroyed!” They wail. Well, let’s do a quick recap of the USA’s “reputation” over the last 80 years:
1950s: Killed 1/5 of the North Korean population, and used Korean civilians as guinea pigs for unfinished Japanese bio weapons from the previous war (local incident reports from the time noted that the American use of bio weapons didn’t seem to serve any military purpose, and were just meant to measure how many people died in varying population densities and weather conditions). On top of all that, multiple American military leaders including McArthur strongly advocated for the use of nuclear weapons.
1960s-70s: Dropped more tons of explosives on Vietnam and its neighbors than all previous wars in human history combined, allegedly to protect “democratic values” in South Vietnam. In 1963, the USA overthrew and murdered the leader of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem. Like in Korea, the USA extensively used CBRN weapons, particularly Agent Orange, a highly toxic pesticide. The longterm poisonous effects of Agent Orange are still felt in Vietnam today. Thousands of its own troops also got sick, but in the eyes of the US government, conscripts from the most impoverished lower classes of America were just as expendable as Vietnamese civilians. Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos still suffer from a huge UXO problem, though at the time US authorities denied dropping bombs outside of Vietnamese borders.
1980s: Gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons to gas Iran, killing more than 1 million Iranians. The US Navy also blockaded the Persian Gulf to give Saddam every possible edge to win. In the 1980s, there was also the infamous case of the US providing huge quantities of weapons and financial aid to the mujahideen in Afghanistan, including Osama bin Laden, who would later (allegedly) bite the hand that fed him.
1990s: The USSR disbanded and George H. W. Bush declared the “New World Order.” Meanwhile, US puppet Saddam was increasingly frustrated with his neighbor Kuwait, who was flooding the oil market in violation of OPEC agreements (presumably to harm the developing Soviet oil industry, which couldn’t compete with the low prices) and allegations of Kuwait stealing from Iraqi-owned fields. After being informed by the US State Department that they would not respond to military intervention, Saddam invaded and occupied Kuwait. Then came the famous testimony by the Kuwaiti ambassador’s daughter claiming that Iraqi soldiers “threw babies out of incubators.” American audiences were conveniently not informed that she was the ambassador’s daughter, and was not even in Kuwait at the time of the invasion.
The Iraqi army capitulated almost immediately and complied with Bush’s demands to leave Kuwaiti territory. The US Air Force then bombed them. It is likely that thousands of Kuwait’s foreign workers were also killed by American bombs as they tried to flee the combat zone. Many Iraqi civilians were killed as American warplanes hit every bomb shelter they knew about. Ironically, they also did this to Kuwaiti bomb shelters. Up until the present day it is still forbidden to film or photograph the destroyed Kuwaiti bomb shelters, most likely to avoid causing embarrassment for them or the US.
None of that was enough, and Iraq was also sanctioned. Asked about the 500,000 Iraqi children killed by sanctions, Madeleine Albright famously said she agreed it was “worth it.”
2000s-Present: Destroyed Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, killing an estimated 4.5 million people in total. Every invasion and intervention was presented as a good cause to protect human rights or something, and always ended with US-armed Islamists butchering women and children, with particular malice toward the local Christian populations, who had previously lived somewhat unmolested under the “dictators” the US claimed to be liberating them from.
This of course is by far not a complete list, just some highlights. Overall, the US has started more than 80% of all wars in the world since 1945. This is counting every war for any reason and any participants, the US was the direct aggressor more than 80% of the time. This is quite the accomplishment.
So when you see a Eurocuck whining that the USA’s reputation is “destroyed,” ask him what exactly that reputation was.
Even with Trump, I don’t see even one prominent European leader condemning Trump for any of the people he’s killed. They’re upset he’s not killing enough people!
Ian Kummer
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