Moreover, according to Brown University's Costs of War project, U.S. military actions since 9/11 directly killed over 900,000 people, with an additional 3.5 million people dying from indirect effects. The wars cost Americans at least $8 trillion and displaced over 38 million people from their homes.
The U.S. hems in Russia and China with bases, missiles and armed allies, all the while calling Russia and China the aggressors.
See Harper's Why are We in Ukraine? for a mainstream accounting of U.S. provocations in Ukraine and elsewhere. Jeffrey Sach's The War in Ukraine Was Provoked and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace is another excellent essay on the issue, as is Chris Hedges' They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine. They lied even about the war in Serbia: the Kosovo Liberation Army that the U.S. aided was basically a terrorist group.
The U.S. allied with Muslim extremist groups to wage wars and support "freedom fighters" against Russian allies in Serbia, Syria, and Libya. Similarly, it allied with far right groups to provoke the war in Ukraine. U.S. hypocrisy is stunning.
Of course the U.S. is lying about the war in Ukraine! And rather than funding more destruction in Ukraine, and risking nuclear war, the U.S. should push for a peace deal, despite having undermined peace deals both before and after the Russian invasion (see here and here).
For more about this topic see Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say: The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine.
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