US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People Since 1945



Manlio Dinucci



In the summary of its final strategic document – 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United States of America (whose full text is classified) – the Pentagon argues that “after the Second World War the United States and its allies established a free and open international order to safeguard the freedom of peoples from aggression and coercion”, but that “this order is now undermined from within by Russia and China, which violate the principles and rules of international relations”. Total reversal of historical reality.

Professor Michel Chossudovsky, director of the Center for Research on Globalization, points out that these two countries, now classified as enemies, are the ones that, when they were allies of the United States during the Second World War, paid for the victory over the Nazi-fascist Axis at the highest price in human lives: about 26 million the Soviet Union and 20 million China, compared to a little over 400 thousand in the United States.





With this preliminary Chossudovsky introduces on Global Research a documented study of James A. Lucas on the number of people killed by the United States’ uninterrupted series of wars, coups d’état and other subversive operations from the end of the war from 1945 to the present: an estimated 20-30 million. About twice as many people died in the First World War, whose centenary of the end has just been celebrated in Paris with a “Peace Forum”.

In addition to the dead, there are the wounded, who often find themselves crippled: some experts calculate that for every person killed in war, 10 others are wounded. This means that the injuries caused by the US wars number in the hundreds of millions.

In addition to this estimate in the study, there is an unquantified number of deaths, probably hundreds of millions, caused from 1945 to the present by the indirect effects of wars: famine, epidemics, forced migration, slavery and exploitation, environmental damage, and the loss of resources from vital needs to cover military expenditure.

The study documents U.S. wars and coups d’état in more than 30 Asian, African, European and Latin American countries. It reveals that the US military forces are directly responsible for 10-15 million deaths, caused by the biggest wars: those of Korea and Vietnam and both against Iraq. Another 10 to 14 million deaths were caused by proxy wars waged by armed allied forces, trained and commanded by the United States, Afghanistan, Angola, Congo Sudan, Guatemala and other countries.

The Vietnam War, which had spread to Cambodia and Laos, caused an estimated 7.8 million deaths (plus a huge number of injuries and genetic damage over generations due to dioxin spread by US aircraft).

The proxy war in Afghanistan in the 1980s was organized by the CIA, which trained and armed, with the collaboration of Osama bin Laden and Pakistan, more than 100,000 mujahideen to fight Soviet troops who fell into the “Afghan trap” (as Zbigniew Brzezinski later defined it, specifying that mujahideen training had begun in July 1979, five months before the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan).

The bloodiest coup d’état was organized in 1965 in Indonesia by the Cia: it provided Indonesian death squads with the list of the first 5,000 communists and others to be killed. The number of people murdered is estimated at between half a million and 3 million.

This is the “free and open international order” that the United States, regardless of who sits in the White House, is pursuing to “save people from aggression and coercion”.

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