How Many Wars is America Fighting? (It's More Than You Think)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- How many wars is America fighting right now? More than you think. Even though the U.S. hasn’t technically been at war since the 1940s, American war-making has assumed a new character: undeclared, secretive, endless. Even though America is technically “at peace,” it still finds its troops fighting in countless different conflicts around the world. Stephen Wertheim, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, explains.
(Please note - Stephen was at the Quincy Institute when we filmed, but is now at Carnegie.)
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To be fare I do think our weapons are beautiful ❤️.
I look forward to Bolters, and lascanons,
Prometheum IRL🤩
The united states is bad a imperial dominance. We need more Competent warlords.
In history we had competent warlords.
Examples Gangas Khan, Alexander the Great. Yet America can't hold territory for more than a year.
I hope we can become an Empire.
But to do that we need Education and Science.
Do a video on how drug prohibition has created a new Jim Crow, has allowed the Supreme Court to destroy the 4th Amendment, has militarized police and accounts for over 60% of their budgets, has given us the largest prison population in the world and how the negative consequences most people associate with drug addiction are not caused by the substances themselves, but by the prohibition of those substances.
@@rusty3073 that would be really great for expanding the audience, get people like Kat blaque, Philosophytube, hasan piker, contrpoints, second thought etc, could really broaden their scope heavily!
Please stop with the "left wing VS right wing" rhetoric. It is "people who want to stop corporate rule, corruption, and the exploiting of people and resources VS those who want to control and exploit people and resources" It doesn't matter who gets voted in, the money stays the same.
“They got money for wars but can’t feed the poor” -Tupac Shakur
@thulomanchay More than just weapons everything from weapons to clothing to cigarette ash trays. To you name it they sell to the government via the industrial military complex. For jacked up prices even for basic things you can find at Walmart.
@@applepie1911e who's gonna give them jobs? No one is hiring a homeless vetran, thats why there are so many on the streets. They try but get rejected by govt and private businesses.
What about food stamps
Lol subhumans made that same rhyme two decades before tupac
Yeah in 2012 2 years into my service I realized this and got out as soon as possible. I’ve been trying to inform people of this but try as I might they willfully continue to support this. I like watch the events that led up to fallout the game franchise happen in real time and often times I feel there is nothing I can do to stop it.
Now that's the real solution, no servicemen no 'conflicts'
Thank you for leaving your service
Hope all choose to do the right thing
Great video. Speaker is solid, editing was flawless, score wasn't distracting, and graphics are really special and not tacky. Thank you for putting in this level of effort on such a serious subject.
Thank you, it’s very enlightening.
French intervention in Middle East and Africa went crazy too. Not only France didn’t let the former French colony a chance for the economic development or democracy (14 African countries are still Under the The CFA franc, french colonial money and symbol of the French domination and humiliation in west Africa) but has also invaded Libya (among others) with no reason or to hide the corruption of Nicolas Sarkozy with Kadhafi, and that intervention lead France to another intervention since 2013 in the Sahel with the same consequences than America in Afghanistan, Irak… also same practice for France, fighting just to impose its model/domination without trying to learn and understand other cultures/system.. even after centuries of colonialism France still knows nothing about it’s ex colonies. French “Universalism” in one way…
The moral of the Afghanistan war: You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, just put it down💀.
They were not put down. They have been left to starve. The corporate press isn't interested and neither are all the ''patriots''.
the removal of the word "war" from all of these military actions is so chilling when you lay it out like this. i havent seen that addressed anywhere else, thank you for making me think about it in more depth!
Very scary.
The whole thing gives me a very 1984 vibe. "it's not the war department it's the "defence" department. It's not war it's "policing action" or it's not a war crime it's "collateral damage" only the bad guys commit war crimes, and we're the good guys"
@@CaptainSully101 Agreed. "Peace keeping' with a gun in your hand" most of us go peace keeping with a coffee in our hand
@@CaptainSully101 Most presidents are war criminals ua-cam.com/video/5BXtgq0Nhsc/v-deo.html
@@Happy_Shopper ua-cam.com/video/QXFProJC5FY/v-deo.html
I had read that the reason we don’t declare war anymore is to avoid congress.
Congress is needed to declare war, but a president can sign off on conflicts without congress.
I also read that we have a military presence in at least 170 countries.
We are the problem.
Ya, but congress gave the president that power it seems to avoid the public having any say beyond demonstrations and forcing accountability on law makers (in four more years).
The Emergency Powers Act was signed in 1976. We have been in a state of national emergency ever since then.
Yes let the US leave this places. And see what happens. Probably the Chinese take our place and power vacuums can more death and suffering than had the US stayed.
@@BigBoss-sm9xj - What a ridiculous and ignorant mor__n!! :-(
Thank you for your honesty
Are we though?
That was clearly halo. I could never forget that melee animation.
I also saw a brain bug in there from Starship Troopers
as if the Magnum front-and-center didn't tip you off
I figured the swooping thing in the sky suggested halo, but what do I know.
I am Master Chief
Lol I wonder who decided to use halo for the animation
This reminds me of a bit from George Carlin about euphemistic language. The American people can't oppose a war they don't know is a war.
Even worse, it reminds me of Orwell's "Ministry of Peace" (shortend to Minipax like Department of Defense is increasingly shortened to DoD) and the "Global Change Game"
I'll assume people here are familiar with the former, but I encourage people to look up the latter.
@پیاده نظام خان his it’s a big club and you ant in it rings true as the Epstein trials happen
@@dynamicworlds1 Well we already have "peace officers" now. An oxymoron if ever there was one. As they are using overwhelming force or violence themselves by default. The politicians have been doing this for millennia+ since the days of the first city states. "reform" in the title of a bill they want passed full of anything but actual positive reforms. But the masses blindly associate "reform" with positive change for instance.
I’m a veteran and I struggle when someone thanks me for my service. I know they intend well, but have no idea what their military is doing, where and why they are killing people. It all comes with a heavy cost-Dollars, lives, integrity, peace and peace of mind. We can’t afford the good things all other advanced countries enjoy because of our oversized military. Vote for peace. Work for peace. Demand draw down.
What they are even at war with?
Humanity
okay pog
I am an Afghan vet, USMC infantryman, this
dude doesn't speak for all vets.
Military spending isn't why we don't have those.
@@Doctor_ko but your saying “okay pog..” you gotta be joking
Something I learned is for every uniformed us soldier there are 3 contractors, aka mercenaries (though not all do combat). so anytime you hear 'we have x number of troops in blank' multiply it by 4
Something to balance this assertion by is a mechanic, fixing vehicles or lunch-lady as an overseas base is just as much a private military contractor (or PMC), as blackwater (academi) Merceneary. So multiplying by 4 is a bit innacurate. If you work for the US armed forces overseas, you are PMC, even if you "just" flip burgers and clean toilets.
@@frederik7338 that's the thing isn't it, 50 or 60 years ago those jobs would have been done by soldiers also
@@frederik7338 The guidance systems make up the majority of a missile.
The military is a massive logistics engine. Every bit of it geared towards making it easier to vaporize people at the drop of a hat.
To attempt to separate the burger flipper from the paratrooper is to completely miss the forest for the trees.
There's nothing lower than a stinking mercenary.
@@JamesRobertSmith do you have personal experience with PMCs or something?
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to frame this as purposeful manipulation to maintain conditions favorable for some key players in the US economy? A perpetual stimulus plan for contractors? Any company that can get a government contract or, more specifically a military contract, is guaranteed a long-standing and large revenue stream at the least.
And what better way to justify these expenditures than with the specter of enemies in a scary world waiting to eat our children? The destabilization is the point, not the consequence.
Amen to that
American empire, if you want to call it that, is too expansive to be characterized as any one thing. It is the defense contractors getting rich off our tax money, but they're also creating new clients overseas who need weapons because of increased instability. It's the "keynseian military state" that provides stimulus to our economy, providing government-funded jobs and industry (to specific areas and people) to keep our economy going without admitting that it doesn't all work on markets. Its the new resources we gain access to when we invade a country, and all the new markets that an invasion opens up. Its about eliminating competition as well, typically either a non-market, less capitalistic economic system that is working well and must be destroyed, or an alternartive to the hegemonic influence of the US dollar. Its about destabilizing the third world and keeping them poor so that we can keep exploiting them economically, or keep our clients desperate and loyal. Its about throwing a wrench in other countries foreign policy so we can outmaneuver them.
Can there be a cia video next?
The usa has made the military it's surplus sink.
Since ww2 the usa has had an economic surplus, at first it solved it by sending money to europe and have them buy the surpluss off of the usa and called it the marshall plan.
When europe recovered and created it's own surplus in productivity the usa needed to find a new way to keep jobs alive but get rid of it what it produced. And what better way to burn loads of money and productivity without getting anything for it in return?
War, bombs, bases, soldiers planes that need replacement all the time, tanks that need endless maintenance etc etc.
Unless the usa finds a new productivity sink it can never give up the millitary. It would create runaway inflation and collapse the economy.
@@nathanielibrahim3492 America is ruled by psychopaths ua-cam.com/video/RM0uvgHKZe8/v-deo.html
To think that we still have tens of thousands of troops in Japan and Germany after 76 years is honestly absurd
Those American troops are in Germany and Japan not for the purpose of protecting them.
They are there to occupy those countries so that they stay in line and obey the wishes of the the US government , and they have the additional pleasure of paying for their own occupation and the responsibility/ duty of purchasing weapons from the US MIC.
Those troops were there to keep the Soviets out not police the locals. They're still there at the behest of the local government.
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And Donald Trump said he wanted to bring his many of them home as possible and everybody in Washington DC including the liberal media went crazy.
Can someone explain how magically it becomes a bad thing if the Republicans want to bring the troops home??
@@qwopiretyu - Honestly I struggle figuring out if you're simply naive, ignorant or a really sad combination of both! Either case the sheer taught that more like you can exist. It's scary at best!
You want to convince yourself that invaders turned into occupier's are welcomed anywhere on this planet? Geez! That's absolutely ridiculous!
BTW Just because US media Censor and suppress any mention of protests, etc. It will never mean they don't exist!
The amount of human lives we waste in these wars is just incomprehensible to me. How do you just decide that it’s just to decimate families and countries with no goal or purpose? I know the answer, money and power, but… come on. It’s depraved.
Not to mention, that if the military budget was cut in half even, and that money spent on pollution and carbon solutions, how much better off would all of us be.?
Psychopathy.
@@jaegrant6441 Also the military is the biggest carbon polluters. The huge jet fueled tanks and planes and subs and boats. Bombs etc etc. We pollute so much using miitary
The worst part about it is that media and political figures only seem to recognize the American lives and not the lives lost of literally everyone else.
@@Palguim ua-cam.com/video/CNjqppyesUE/v-deo.html
i love how these guys have been around for barely a year and the visuals are already objectively better then anything prageru has ever made
PragerU is a suspected white supremacist thinktank
WITHOUT BILLIONS of dollars from oil billionaires
@@secularnaturalist3764 it is absolutely a white supremacy indoctrination media outlet, the think tank is a combination of it's contributors and the sponsors of them all.
@j - k don't speak ill of our democratic, free, open, and fair markets. Capitalisms win.
@Spencer Havens Mike Rowe says it's dumb to follow your passion.
Or military is nothing but the corporate state's military. Our solders don't protect us, they secure favorable investment opportunities for corporations. Period.
The 10-year cost for Pentagon spending is over 8.31T. Never let anyone tell you that we can’t afford to pay for things that would actually help people (healthcare, education, etc.).
Capitalism is a wicked and diabolical system.
imagine if all that money goes to fighting climate change or anything else just imagine how beneficial it would be.....
@Account NumberEight Won lots of wealth and power for billionaires and ghouls.
Of course we can't afford things that would help the 99% - where would the 1% (Wall St, big pharma, military-industrial complex, fossil fuels, etc) get all the loot they're stealing?
@Account NumberEight Winning would defeat the purpose. Gotta keep the infinite wars going so we always have a crisis to spend more tax money on to enrich MIC while setting up puppet governments to control power and resources and keep that foreign labor cheap to sustain the illusion that us poor idiots in the US are living the dream of abundance and prosperity.
As a recent military retiree, who enlisted three months prior to 9/11 and got my 20 year letter shortly after we left Afghanistan, thank you for bringing this to light. Hopefully this will sway some people away from blind support of the military-industrial complex.
Thank you for your service☮️🇺🇸☯️
I've always preferred supporting the troops over supporting any of the wars. I want people like you or like my family members who've enlisted to be treated well because the politicians and military industrial complex sent you guys into situations that were tough and many don't make it back from.
Please run for office, sir. We desperately need men like you fighting the actual enemy here at home...
What’s your opinion on Biden?
Meanwhile faux news be all like “Bojack hates the troops !!!”
I really wonder if it is even possible to calculate the cost to taxpayers for ongoing cleanup of American corporate interests in the fallout of oil exploration in the middle east, global pollution, loss of North American manufacturing, industry caused climate change etc. And compare it to the net gain (or I think loss) to the American working class.
A select few get rich in the short term and leave the working class to pay trillions to repair the damage they caused. It's so short sighted..
Would love to see the gravel take on the climate crisis
We're hard at work on it!
@@TheGravelInstitute I hope that you use as many angles on the problem as possible, as it is everyone's concern. I don't think most people have the full picture, as much of the economic side of it is controlled by ESG funds by BlackRock and is very deceptively biased and myopic.
@@TheGravelInstitute
please no science fiction.
permaculture and community gardens.
watch that Woody Harrelson documentary "Kiss The Ground" beforehand.
@@donHooligan Gravel doesn't do science fiction. I've never seen anything but facts on their channel. They even cite their sources, so you can verify all the information they present.
@@renatocorvaro6924
K
down, boy
excitable scamp, aintcha?
"Peace through Strength" sounds a little like "Work sets you Free" the slogan over the gate entering Auschwitz.
You're right.
In America, you're ridiculed and feared for having such extremist beliefs such as... **check notes** not wanting to be at war
we should start the Anti-War Party
@@donHooligan this is the way
Also *checks notes* not destroying the planet. Or having a physically healthy, well educated, critically thinking country of people. Yup. That's pretty extremist here
@@donHooligan That actually used to be a thing.
@@hedgehog3180 yeah.
SLP and CPUSA were both 100% anti-war.
Eugene Debs was thrown in prison for opposing war.
an American citizen....was thrown in prison....for being against war.
Convict # 9653 For President
"8 decades, 0 wars"
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Exactly
What does 2+2=?
@@jonanderson4474 5 ...if the Party says so!
Universal Healthcare & tuition free college combined costs $160B per year.
900+ American military bases around the world costs $200B per year.
Murderous priorities...
When you get your source from McDonald’s.
It’s lower than 160 billion, but the country has a population of 330 million so that make sense.
We all know that imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
An endless waterfall of money and blood, all so the rich can have cheaper caviar.
People still eat Fish eggs?
It's more like an empires pulled beyond its means, until collapse. Money is simply the trail of cause. Believe me, it would be nice to just claim greed, then we'd have simplicity.
@@prouddegenerates9056 I'm pro imperialism.
There is more than one way to take over other nations. More then one way to win.
Yet America thinks war is the Go to method.
I think culture and commerce is what will take the middle eastern nations. War hasn't worked out. Taking the middle east seems like something America can easily do.
Keeping it is a whole other matter entirely.
We need to win the people over.
But that's not something I could ever succeed at.
I would be very confused if I actually had the ability to win hearts and minds.🤔
@@Gfish17 that isn't imperialism that is an alliance. Imperialism is essentially another nation takes yours and say they are better than you.
@@artypyrec4186 You saying Empires don't have Alliance's. You get allies then you assimilate and appropriate the is Thier cultures. Instead of putting another nation down say: we can help lift you up. And we hope you decide to join our nation.
Then you deliver. Help with Food, inferstructer, Healthcare, Jobs, Birth control, Education.
That's how you grow an empire.
While I am totally pro-war and Pro-death that doesn't mean you run in Shooting like an Astartee.
"First of all, this needs to be said: _There never was a war._ "How can you say that, Bill?" Well, a _war_ is when _two_ armies are fighting. So... you can see right there I think we can all agree it wasn't exactly a war." - Bill Hicks 1992
I had a college professor say that America, in every good and bad way (mostly bad) is just speedrunning through ancient Rome.
Exactly. I think at this point we will have the best record time of under 300 years! Wooo! AMURRRRICA!!!
i mean and all other empires this is simply how they go they are inherently unsustainable things just move faster now a days
@@larry6601 "we dont have slaves" said the idiot about one of the few countries in the world where slavery is not only legal and extremely widespread
also yes the us doesnt conquer places in the same way empires of old (anymore they certainly did plenty of it in the 1800s) did but it certainly is an empire and it certainly does expand thru war it just likes to pretend the places it conquers are free while they are ruled by american corporations in the exact same shit just with the aesthetics of not being that and even the aesthetics are wearing thin now a days
@@larry6601
"Could you elaborate if this is happening in America, and where? I don't catch your meaning. The practice was abolished in 1865."
read the 13th amendment it is not a coincidence that despite having less than 5% of the population of the world the US has more than 20% of all prisoners
its not a coincidence that people with a bit of weed can get 20 years in prison
slave labor in sweatshops but mainly farms is extremely prevalent in the US and it has been since the 70s
the comparison is the US and Rome the whole history of both the reasons why the US did the things it did in the past are still around they just cant get away with it anymore
and here u are conflating things that dont matter such as global trade between imperial core countries and things that matter and that i am talking about which is imperialism
i dont care if the US sells whatever to germany or japan literally no one cares
what we are talking about here is imperialism
its the US sending its troops to a country like say iraq to install a regime that will let American corporations do whatever they want
what we are talking about is the CIA overthrowing countless democratically elected governments around the world to install fascist dictators that again will let American corporations do whatever they want
and this is only on the violent and direct side of things
modern imperialism doesn't stop there
even in "friendly" trade between imperial core countries exploited countries extract wealth from these countries i mean why do u think 3rd world countries or as is trendy now """undeveloped countries""" stay undeveloped
go read "imperialism the highest stage of capitalism" if u want a good explanation legit im not smart enough to give u one i was gonna but then i was just quoting stuff from there without context and it just wasnt good its short and despite being almost 100 years old perfectly explains a big part of what is happening today in the world
and about mao idk i think his pretty based he did some good stuff but the cultural revolution wasn't really one of them as far im concern cant really leap anywhere when u dont have an industrial basis to leap from
@@larry6601 Hey Larry, who made the clothing you wear? Who made all of those incredibly cheap products? We've redefined slavery. Poverty wages are slavery, except the economic responsibility has been pushed onto the slave, largely exported overseas and invisible.
If you care at all, look at the people who made the things you own.
It's amazing that a group of slave owners created a political system that is now used. May I ask: Who are the slave owners in the new era? Who are the slaves?
The Gravel Institute back with another great video. Keep it up guys!
Well done dude. But, let's not forget Nuclear Annihilation and the environmental damage these wars and the war games are causing. Greed and the lust for power need to be brought to an abrupt and immediate halt or we are all dead.
Correction: Capitalism needs to be brought to an abrupt and immediate halt or we are all dead.
@@TheAmericanAmerican And what do you suggest to replace it, hmmm? Communism and full on socialism has never worked in a nation, they all stay as dictatorships before reforming or collapsing. “Socialist” like things like free healthcare, schooling, housing, welfare, public works, etc are great and work, but capitalism is here to stay until we have a post scarcity society and something like AI oversight, and that is centuries to millennia away.
@@Barabel22 just look at your medical bills vs other nation.
Capitalism only benifit certain group. By certain group not many of us fall in that group because our circumstances itself is different than them or simply we don't have capital.
@@harrisiskandar8356 I said public healthcare is FINE. I don’t want people to have to go into bankruptcy to pay for lifesaving care.....but I also do not want the failure of communism to rear its head again either. Policies mixing elements of socialism and capitalism like in the Nordic Countries are the best route for the the time being in my opinion.
Okay.... then bring to an abrupt and immediate halt then?
Keep publishing things like this! Dispel the illusion of separation, the world thinks we are evil warmongers, and they ARENT WRONG!
Everyone is “evil” and a “warmonger”, some people just lack the same power as others
Before you make fun of someone for still believing in Santa Claus, just remember some people still believe the troops fight for freedom.
Unfortunately I work with a girl who's now husband was in a peaceful mission in Afghanistan. She still believes it is to save the world. I almost lost my mind, when she started telling me stuff about politics. No wonder people are stupid!!!
Fighting ISIS isn’t fighting for freedom? I mean this video is extremely biased, so I would take this as a grain of salt.
@@franfinesim Aren’t we fighting the terrorist in Afghanistan, the Taliban, that try to invade Afghanistan? You don’t get to call anyone stupid but yourself.
@@vihailevagi oh, another person who thinks it's intellectually advanced, but cannot count 2+2. What fight against talibans? America literally trained the guys and armed them you idiot 🤣🤣🤣
@@franfinesim That was in 1979 dummy, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
You guys should be hiring translators and passing this around in other countries' social media too. A lot of people around the world would love this video, and it would gin up more recognition and support for Gravel Institute
A lot r bilingual like me
So it's not a lost cause
I think the videos are mostly addressed to US/UK citizens. To teach them their own history they'll never hear at school. And to show what kind of government they're supporting.
@@CaemmYsWoed trust me that's the case around the world
Countries glorify their oppressor and no one cares..it's good that in west atleast u seek out truth and care what happens
Off topic, but the based Halo fans at the Gravel Institute have my everlasting respect.
The use of color was phenomenal in this presentation. The red, white/black, and blue tells a story of its own.
I enjoyed the background music as well!
@@onemanmob6756 nostalgic and 80's sounding!
As the last good Republican POTUS said in his farewell speech to the nation:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, January 17, 1961
Than the boomers completely ignored his warning and somehow made it worse
Ronald reagan??
@@akimbolamp1619 Ronnie is actually the worst republican POTUS of the modern era. He actually the one who set in motion the majority of problems that you and I are suffering from today... think about it, when was "America Great"? Most people would say back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. What else was "great" back then? Unions and strong regulations on the corporations/rich/elites meaning that the working class(you and I) had more say, more power in controlling our lives.
And then came Ronnie in 1980 with his BS trickledown "economics" and his anti-union BS... He deregulated/dismantled the strong labor laws, unleashed the corporations to do pretty much whatever they wanted, and said it would all be great because they would make more and more and then it would trickle down to everyone else... well guess what? It didn't happen. Turns out that the rich love to hoard money in banks offshore! Crazy, huh??
Oh and one of the quickest ways for the corporations to get richer was to fire their entire workforce in the US and move their operations abroad so they did just that, gutting the American working class in the process.
Fast forward to today and nothing has changed... 40 years of corporations being unregulated has lead to Bezos, Musk, Gates, and many other insanely rich @ssholes that can unite and literally control and corrupt our government for themselves and get laws passed that help only them while we workers suffer more and more every year...
Finally if you want more proof, look at the UK's economic history... it's almost identical to ours in the last 40 years. Why? Well maybe it also goes back to when Ronald met Margaret Thatcher and she decided that her country too would benefit from Trickledown "economics"...
@Federal Bureau of Investigation
There are a few reasons, but why don't you enlighten us with what you think it is?
@@TheAmericanAmerican Chile, Pinochet, same recipe.
Good thing we're walking away.
This gravel institute needs to grow further... So purely informative...
Left wing propaganda
To our American brothers and sisters: Thank you for trying to change this.
thank you for not retaliating irrationally.
anybody even leaning left in this country is desperate for change.
....and even most of our right wing citizens are (were) anti-war.....but, for some odd reason, both parties are for it.
almost like it's one big (MIC) team.
All dozens of them... dozens!!! 🤣
Do you know that America is a continent, right?
@@marceloconde2968
you do know that most people living in the USA call themselves Americans, right?
the don't say United State-ians.
@@donHooligan ok, it is not wrong. But the people os US are not the only Americans. All people that live in American continent are Americans.
Smh America is a business not a country.
And exactly why I want out
I literally had Trump supporters tell me before the '16 election "this country should be run like a business."
It wasn't already being run that way? How's that working for ya??
And that's why capitalism is anti-democracy. Democracy hurts the capitalists' profits! Filthy peasants always whining for a better life!
@@jonathanrobles7377 same.
It is a continent...
And yet they call Russia and China "Warmongers". HMPH, with what right you critize them?
I love how Star Wars shows what happens when a corrupt republic crumples from within and becomes a galaxy wide empire that uses its military to dominate. It’s one of the best comparisons I use because so many people will watch something like Star Wars whilst ignoring the real things happening around them. We are the Empire and we use our military to dominate the planet.
Well we are a republic not an empire if we were an empire we problably wouldnt have lasted long
@@lovelyhomeboy2782 We’re definitely an empire. I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive.
@@2FadeMusic I just checked out your music its pretty good
@@2FadeMusic idk considering one is built on democracy of participants and the other is forced subjugation of others, I would say they are pretty mutually exclusive; unless you consider influence akin to empire. IMO the age of empires ended with the decolonization period.
@@captaincapitalis1205 Empires can be democracies, monarchies or whatever, Rome was already an empire while a democratic republic. And that is without even taking into account neo imperialism, don't want to open your economy to the USA? You get sanctions, coups, "counter terrorism", outright invasion.
Growing up I remember hearing about how other countries hate us because of how free we are. Carefully leaving out how the endless wars cause endless enemies
Yeah and in Afghanistan alone 11 million "collateral damage" was caused it's just said those children that were bomb to bits by America didn't do 9/11
42% of everyone killed in Afghanistan were innocent civilians. Verified by an American study from Brown University. "The cost of War"
Brainwashing starts in public schools
On UA-cam the comments said USA was most hated country in the world.
And the fact our country really isn’t that free
This is why India never allows USA/ NATO to station itself on India.
wake up babe, new gravel institute banger
thanks babe
While the solution is certainly more complex than i can imagine, the simple truth is this, America, seriously just go home and let the world handle it´s issues without your destructive input in everything.
I don't think the solution is that complex. I mean, there is some level of detail, sure, but it beats the hell out of the alternative (endless slaughter).
profit don't allow it
Literally the only way that will ever happen is either by dismantling the global capitalist economic system via a transition into a global socialist system OR by the complete collapse of the USA as a global super power similar to the collapse of the USSR... my money is on the latter...
@@TheAmericanAmerican "Hey, Google! How long do empires usually last?"
@@TheAmericanAmerican why the hell would the US returning to isolationism automatically result in the implementation of global collective ownership? One does not necessitate the other. Socialism requires the violent and coercive acquisition of resources to give to those who have not earned those resources.
No two people can eat the same grain of rice.
Us number of bases; 700
China; 1
And yet we are made to believe that china is a warmongerer
Watching this from the Philippines. How about you?
On a side note, the animations are quite good
I'm watching from Brasil!🇧🇷
So, how is the weather in there?
#fsociety if you like socialism, you should watch Mr Robot
@@robertwinslade3104 I with you there fuck Amazon and their 7 day free trial while everyone else gives a month or more
This is giving me UNCOMFORTABLE "Rome in Germania" and "Rome in Scotland" vibes. Like, sustaining war because the war needs to be sustained otherwise the whole system collapses if it isn't actively expanding.
Hideo Kojima was really onto something with the War Economy plot of Metal Gear Solid 4; it hasn't been fully privatized yet in reality, but we're really really uncomfortably close to living it in America. Our society and economy are largely based on continuing armed conflicts. That should concern everyone.
Solid Snake said it himself:
"War has changed.
It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines.
War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine.
War has changed.
ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.
Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control… everything is monitored and kept under control.
War… has changed.
The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history.
War… has changed.
When the battlefield is under total control, 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚."
We're missing those ID tags on everything and the nanomachines, but everything else is looking scarily familiar from where I'm sitting.
Damn that's crazy I think I need to play mgs4 now
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
"This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
"The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement.
We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
"This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
- US President Eisenhower, *1953*
Quite.
if we(all war mongering countries) ever use half the military budget on humane research, we would had permanent bases on moon, easy high capacity high speed transport across the oceans, unlimited resources through space mining, high speed worldwide communications, frontier settlement on mars, scheduled space travel routes in space etc.
I miss guys like Eisenhower, the last really good president the US had.
@@JB-yb4wn america has never had a good president
@@jmacsbiggestfan9020
Not even Truman? I thought he was fairly decent.
“Peace through Strength” has bought pain, misery and death to millions of people worldwide.
“Peace through Prosperity” shall bring life, happiness and hope to millions more across the world.
Tell me, what one do you prefer?
What do you mean by "prosperity?" And shall it bring peace?
Nick Hanauer has been speaking up about this for a few decades. Coined the term "middle out economics" it makes sense. If we boost the prosperity of those in the middle, it will spread to either side of them. "Trickle down economics" does not work, well it works for a few people lol. And if the trickle is actually just a small sporadic drip, even less so.
@@guilhermeteodosio40 The idea that if we bring prosperity in the form of quality education, healthcare, housing, food, water, and more to people the world over, it will do much to bring about peace. Education especially makes people less vulnerable to being swept up in extremist movements. While it certainly wouldn't achieve true world peace, it absolutely would cut down on a great deal of suffering and misery the world over, and in many places this suffering and misery is directly linked to ongoing violence.
Peace through harmony
sustainability is the only thing that will prevent extinction.
....and we aint even close. (to "sustainable")
Peace Through Prosperity = Belt and Road Initiative
I lost all braincells and any form of mental strength for critical thinking because of this video... thx
yuupp.. this marxist propganda is so lame.
@@williampierce4513 literally bro did u watch the whole thing?😂
@@ericayala7387 fvck nah dude, i couldn't stomach it.. watched like half of this nonsense
LETS GOOOOO
Feed the algorithm
The US has gone full "Starship Troopers." What have we done? Would you like to know more?
GREAT VIDEO. Thank you for making this. I would share this with all my 'liberal' friends who support the proxy war in Ukraine, but it would sadly fall on deaf ears as they've become neocons in recent years, though they don't realize it.
Yeah
Out of all the wars the US has been in recent history, Ukraine makes the most sense to actually back, because we are supporting a nation that was unjustly invaded, we get to send equipment that we didn't need anyway, and we weaken russia using only a small fraction of our military budget, like about 3%-5%. Being in the Middle East was pointless and a huge waste of money, but I think ukraine is more worthwhile.
Looking at the history of the US, it's easier to count how many years at peace we have ever had versus years of conflict we inflict as an empire. It's not even close the ratio of years of peace to conflict
I once did the math. 33 years of peace vs over 200 years of war.
@@PropagandasaurusRex Sheesh. Not a great ratio
Even when the US is "at peace", it engages in war by other means.
@@johnkesich8696 I accounted for that. The peace years were mainly in the 19th century and a few years between WWI and WWII, when the US was isolationist.
The last peace treaty that the US signed was with the Japanese after WWII. Since then it has been an ongoing war with ever changing opponents.
@@PropagandasaurusRex did you count the indian wars?
Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism.
Military Operations Other Than War
Foreign Intervention
Overseas Contingency Operation
Non-War Military Activity
Authorized Use of Military Force
Peacekeeping Operations
Humanitarian Operations
Special Military Operation
Would love to see the Gavel institute tackle the hypocrisy of Ben Shapiro. He's gained too much mainstream, and needs a counter force!
For all his "Owning triggered SJWs with FACTS and LOGIC", he sure himself got triggered when he listened to an 80+ year old song by John Lennon - "Imagine all the people".
@@GTAVictor9128 imagine is only 50 years old, but yeah
How anyone can take him seriously is beyond me..
Ben Saphiro use logic and arguments, it is normal liberal gonna be triggered of him. And you kid better switch your username and profile pick you don't deserve him
@@mariano98ify he never uses logic though
Such a waste of money... and human life.
As an American I apologize for everything. I wish my taxes went to better shit :(
As a proud Veteran of 22 years of service, entering the military in 1991, it pains me to say this video is pretty much on target. ☮️🇺🇸☯️
dafuq you proud of?
@@donHooligan one can’t be proud?
@@donHooligan Duh fact you would ask so rudely shows me you would never understand even if I wasted my time to break it down for you.
I bet you have never even done a selfless act in your life, nor have you even bothered to understand the message in this video.
So sad for you…
☮️🇺🇸☯️
@@ajarofmayonnaise3250
i never said that.
sit down, kid.
@@donHooligan you are one just being rude to a person for no reason at all.
To think, we could cut our military budget in half, and we'd still be spending more money on our military than any other country on Earth.
Don't forget NATO, wherever America goes, NATO follows
Crimes against humanity - An American History
They only fight weaker nations, they have never tested their strength with equal adversaries, only then
do you really wanna see it tested? ..
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@@tomkat69pc themselves , no one should love war, except when enforced
Star wars fact.
Qui Gon Jin died fighting darth Maul on Naboo.
Don't remind me of that
@@obi-wankeknobi8413 Remember this comment
@@darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832 Oh I don't think so
Well it's pretty interesting. 😎 But not surprising. 😎
its better to be the strong one rather than have somebody else stronger cause then they control you
Whoever came up with that Captian America graphic deserves a raise. 2:52
As southpark said, america is a country where we learned if we do one thing and say another you can get away with alot
“Fighting against terrorism”? War IS terrorism.
Controlling the language is basic. ''War is peace''. ''Freedom is slavery''. You know the rest.
With just 3% of the pentagon budget we could end homelessness.
If only we tried to be as creative at helping each other as we are at killing each other...
While I agree with many of your points and believe America should use military force only when every other option has been tried to. If America were to step down from its position of power and return all the troops overseas a huge power struggle would ensue and due to many countries relying on US intervention they have small militaries that would be unable to defend themselves if they were to be attacked. If you truly wish to solve a problem you need a plan because if you don’t you might you just be postponing the inevitable. And let’s not forget that good can come out after a war for example Japan after the Second World committed countless war crimes in order to achieve their goals but after the war with americas help they became into a great country.
Yeah I'd wish they also show the good side of it all, To give some context to the wider problem at hand
Well the point of videos like this is to feed into a echo chamber for leftists. Although the information is technically correct, the context is lost and so overall complexities. But it’s not like the leftist eating this up will actually apply any critical thinking.
I don't think its reasonable for united states to have hundreds of intervention and troops all over the world, a select few for its allies without peacekeeping means maybe but hundreds, don't be ridiculous, do you think all people on that places always want chaos? do you think the modern world right now with globalization have so many aggressor? most aggressor are major military power, primarily united states itself...what i always seen and heard from news in my country and internet sources since i was a little kid, its always the news about how united states intervene in foreign country and give them so called "freedom and democracy"...
Peace through strength sounds alot like trickle down economics
War is a racket.... Smedley D. Butler
End uniform worship. Every soldier I know is some dude from high school that ran out of chances but we tell them they're heros for doing something they don't understand
Love the video, though it is doesn't show the horror that is the actual US military, it gets the point across.
What an excellently made and thought provoking video, well done and Im glad the right criticism is being made about the US and how dangerous it has been and continues to be to the rest of the world.
Its only taking over where England has left off. Do you know how many countries England hasnt invaded in its history? 2
@@Coz-I-Can I’ve heard 22, but that really doesn’t help much.
This is very well done both in content and presentation. Thank you
Imagine the free college and healthcare the US could afford without wars. That would benefit mankind wayyyyy more.
Hard to think of a more important topic to cover than this one.
Homelessness. Overpopulation, Affordable housing, Healthcare, just to name a few.
Wars keep the population in check.
@@Gfish17 ???
The planet?
@@Gfish17 Overpopulation looool
@@kaplou9716 Yes captain planet.
Water, Earth, something, Heart.
As a service member i can see what the civilians are thinking but at least tell they story form all three sides (US Military, Opposing forces, and what the communication between the countries involved) this is one of the problems with Americans in general a argument or a problem is either 1 sided or non imformative of the opposing argument… the korea situation is completely different than afghan because ROK ( South Korea ) contracts US to HELP defend against an invasion or attack from North Korea something that is also in a treaty that BOTH countries have said to keep their part on… Afghan was different, we fought 4 different groups 1 being insurgents and the rest are all terrorists, forgein policy says we cannot negotiate with terrorists but can only try and de escalate, they didnt want to… also when you are in a different country where you do t know the land and you have rules to engagement but the opposite side dosnt it makes military operations that much harder especially in an urban setting….. Somalia was a group effort with Italy, pakistan, The UK, and other nations sent by the UN to give food and water to the people of Somalia duringthe Civil Wars, neutral in the situation it wasnt until Americans where killed and peaceful food gatherings where raided and turnt into warzones that Americans where authorized to use deadly force leading to the infamous batlle of mogadishu or better known “Black Hawk Down”…. Next time do more research and talk about the whole story not one sided if civilians knew everything that was going on the world the conversation would be completely different
I never realized we never declared war in Korea or Vietnam
Or Cambodia but we bombed there too during the Vietnam War.
I think the world needs a strong China and Russia to keep America honest. I also think it needs a nice Europe, and a nice South America, so the Americans getting screwed too bad can "vote with their feet".
Keep America honest? Have they ever been honest? Will the USA ever be honest? I'm quite certain that answer is no. I do agree we need a strong China though. They are the only large nation with a government that is capable of keeping the capitalist class under control.
We should Help out South America and the Caribbean Countries , So they'll be more like Europe Countries instead of American puppets .
Cuase of rigth now the only nations capable of threating America are half way around the world
@@JcoleMc To be fair, even European countries have been American puppets to a lesser extent after the Marshall Plan.
Fuck no
I am concerned about where the world will go, currently because of Ukraine, the United States was driving a militaristic "wave" in addition to exposing the conflict to have the "Pretext" that NATO has united more than ever (despite the fact that in the last 30 years this only increased its number of members and technically unity) something that would have remained just as if nothing happened in Ukraine, no member in the last 30 years has left the Alliance, now these tensions may still increaseMoreover, on the part of NATO since Russia has been restricted to Ukraine, and it is increasingly shown that NATO and the United States are doing everything possible to prolong the war by sending more equipment, I think it will reach the point where they will send vehicles like Leopard 1. I don't know how this will end, but I hope it will end sooner rather than later.
Oh, I've missed you guys.
And yes, 100% True. Children in the Middle East used to pray for cloudy days so that American Drones would be less functional. It's all because the United States wants to remain a global hegemonic force.
Funny when they said they want peace but with the amount of personnel stationed in middle east could easily outweighs number of the natives army. I think USA is roman number 1 fans just like how roman stationed its army in the past.
@@harrisiskandar8356 Indeed so.
This is why America should not go to wars unless it's morally right.
@@dinosaurus598 The most justified war in history was stopping fascism in WW2.
And yeah, the Civil War to end slavery too. Though, the original intent of the war had nothing to do with slavery.
Protecting countries? Or protecting foreign elites who serve Wall Street interest?
Hit the nail on the head.
I doubt giving afghans 20 years of democracy was there just to serve wall street interest
Precisely. And that foreign interest has free health care, education, vacations- everything that the US wage slave lacks. while billions are given to that power every year.
And how many of these wars are pointless all of them
"The War is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous"
George Orwell
And before Conservatives spam me saying Orwell was a republican, no, he was a strong socalist.
He was actually anarchirst.
Orwell also snitched communists to British intelligence at the height of the Great Patriotic War. I don't think he's a person that deserves to be looked up to.
@@luc6284 Yeah kinda a jerk move by him. I understand that he hated Stalin(How can you not) but that was definitely him just being paranoid. Oh yeah, and he was homophobic as well. Still, a strong symbol of democratic socialism, and 1984 is a literary masterpiece.(And the main inspiration for the modern right tactics)
@@ethanpappas2502 I understand where your hate towards Stalin comes from, but I don't think it is justified, though there is nevertheless still a lot to criticise him for. Had it not been for Stalin though, WWII would have likely been lost to the Axis powers, resulting in countless millions more casualties throughout Europe, but especially the USSR itself, where the Nazis essentially fought a war of extermination rather than occupation.
I believe Stalin was a genuine communist who happened to be the most capable of leading the newly born first ever socialist country into industrialisation, great improvements to physical quality of life and the defense against ceaseless attacks from the capitalist world, not only in the form of invading armies but also in the form sanctions and insurgencies funded by the West. A claim often made against Stalin is that he was paranoid, but honestly I think he had plenty of reason to be. Spies, fascists and opportunists supported by the capitalist world constantly tried to infiltrate and destabilise the socialist government structures which posed an enormous threat to the Soviet Union and its people. There is a lot more context to the topic of Stalin than simply "powerhungry dictator", so please do some more study about it. You may be surprised what you find.
@@luc6284 It is true that the USSR is a complex topic. The general US perception that it was a staving nation of illiterate slaves is obviously nonsense, it had a well-educated population and a pretty good economy until Breshnev and Afghanistan crashed it. That being said the notion that it was a Marxist paradise is also not true, it was a quite authoritarian and paranoid country. Stalin does deserve at least some credit for his rapid but crude industrialization of Russia certainly helped it beat the Nazis. Likewise, the capitalist west was obsessed with Destroying the USSR, many not recognizing it as a country until the 30s. That being said, my negative opinion of Stalin Stands. (At least he wasn't Pol Pot) He was unniessiarly paranoid, killing many in the communist party itself which prevented the ideology from developing or democratizing. He was extremely hard on religion(something that as a Christian Socialist, I take great offence to) He was quite anti-Semitic and his purge of the red army in 1938 cripled it and left it woefully unprepared for the Nazis wrath, which would kill a fifth of the Soviet population. And of course theirs the Holodomor. Yes, there was a grain shortage but Stalin's handling of the famine was absolutely disastrous. Exact death estiments from Stalin vary(There are some far-right circles that claim it was 60 million, which is outlandish) but he did directly kill millions of people. Orwell was not right to have communists jailed in the UK, but he did have reason to be terrified of Stalin. (He fought alongside a Trotskyist group in the Spanish Civil war, which led to many of his views on the Soviet Union)
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Fighting war is profitable for defense industry and also, contractors. They in turn will spend more money on lobbying, more money and war they can do business in. And more dollar spent on lobbying, more the politicians will benefit.
It's a win-win circle for defense industry, contractors, and US politicians.
We have become the very thing we swore to destroy, the antithesis of what we claim to be; we’re just like the Galactic Empire in Star Wars.
More wars equal more money for the Military Industrial Complex.
When I read War Is A Racket I stopped supporting our military when they are overseas. We need to stop sending our young people overseas. Like General Smedley Butler when there’s a war the end result is money to be made at the taxpayer/solidier expense.
I absolutely love the retrowave style visuals for this. Amazing work by the graphics artists involved.
Good ominous soundtrack to.
Agree