Russia’s record of aggression

Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
[ezcol_1half]China 1950-53 (Korean War)
Guatemala 1954, 1960
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-61
Vietnam 1961-73
Laos 1964-73
Belgian Congo 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Guatemala 1967-1969
Cambodia 1969-1970
Nicaragua 1980s
El Salvador 1980s
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983
[/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Lebanon 1983, 1984 (Lebanese, Syrian targets)
Korea and Iran 1987
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991 (1st War); 1991-2003 (“No Fly Zone”)
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94; 2007
Bosnia 1994-1995
Iran 1997
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001-ongoing
Iraq 2003 (2nd War; recent predator drones)
Yemen 2002, 2009
Libya 1986, 2010[/ezcol_1half_end]

Oops – did I say Russia? My bad. I meant of course the USA.

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And before Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Here’s Major-General Smedley-Butler in 1933.

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I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. [/ezcol_1half_end]

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