The US spends more on defense [sic] than the next 10 countries combined
(what do we get for all that money?)
I could go on for pages about the myriad myths of both U.S. military spending and U.S. military “glory.” In fact, I’ve written two books about it — plus hundreds of articles.
For the sake of this post, I’ll share just one example of our [sic] beloved and expensive armed forces in action:
During the 78-day U.S./NATO bombing campaign (read: war crimes) over Yugoslavia in 1999, U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen declared: “We severely crippled the Serbian military forces in Kosovo by destroying more than 50 percent of the artillery and one-third of the armored vehicles.”
One year later, a U.S. Air Force report revealed a different story:
Original Claim Actual Number
120 tanks destroyed 14
220 armored personnel carriers destroyed 20
450 artillery pieces destroyed 20
744 confirmed strikes by NATO pilots 58
The report also found that the Serbian military fooled cutting-edge U.S. technology with simple tactics like constructing fake artillery pieces out of black logs and old truck wheels.
One vital bridge avoided destruction from above when, 300 yards upriver, a phony bridge was erected out of polyethylene sheeting. Vaunted U.S. pilots bombed the fake bridge several times.
Confronted with this evidence, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon went into spin mode: “We obviously hit enough tanks and other targets to win.”
Keep in mind that Bacon is talking about an intervention that was a violation of the United Nations Charter and labeled as a war crime by Amnesty International.
If Putin does something like this, he’s the “next Hitler.”
When Bill Clinton does it, well… chalk another one up for the Home of the Brave™.
Reminder to the “right”: The propaganda and deception didn’t start in March 2020.
Reminder to the “left”: The propaganda and deception didn’t end in March 2020.
In so many ways, on so many levels, about so many peepul, our eyes have been opened. ~~~The home of the brave, the naturally kind, the normally conscientious, the early trained, well mannered young, with reverence towards life and the sacred….thinking back to usetah be? Well, forget that TV program, forget “remember that song?” Who can understand the words, and anyway, who would want to? Yuk! ….Screaming……save my hearing! All that not so important now. ~~~We look back to realize America has stuffed our closets with the good and beautiful and brought out the frayed and damaged and stinky from attic and basement thinking we need a change, we have no right to protect good citizens, the bad ideas and the criminal need tolerance and acceptance too! Oh Lord help us, a lightning bolt please to our stupidity, that the truth will be exposed in its flashing brilliance, and the sickness in our brains be removed, before we lose our world~~~~
and then plays the victim 'David' status versus whoever sees fit...... been going on for far too long, when will Americans stop cooperating with such abuse with also affects them at home....when?