America is the most war-friendly country in the world

When words such as “interventionism”, “militarism”, “occupation”, “war” and “warmongering” come to mind, the name of the United States immediately comes to mind. A country that has deployed bases and military forces even in the farthest parts of the world, including West Asia (Middle East), which is thousands of kilometers away from this country.

It is not only the people and officials of different countries of the world who accuse America of arson, but the high-ranking officials of the United States also acknowledge and admit to occupying their country for more than two centuries in different parts of the world.

It was four years ago that Jimmy Carter, the former president of the United States, called Donald Trump on the phone, stating that out of the 242 years of American history, we have been at war for 226 years. The rest of the time was spent in war. America is the most warmongering country in the world because of its willingness to try to force others to adopt American values.

Now that four years have passed since that confession, it can be said that America has been involved in direct and proxy wars abroad for 230 years; An issue that was brought to the attention of high-ranking officials of Asian countries during Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi asked the US and the West to stop interfering in Middle East affairs and trying to change the region based on their own standards. .

American fire in the Middle East

America has turned this continent into an unsafe place in different parts of Asia, from Afghanistan, which it occupied under the pretext of fighting terrorism in 2001, to Iraq, which it occupied in 2003 under the pretext of destroying chemical weapons and mass murder. Therefore, the United States, by occupying Afghanistan and Iraq at the beginning of the third millennium, plunged these two countries into a deep crisis, which, of course, also faced significant political, financial, and human costs.

The two decades of occupation have been costly for the United States, and the United States spent about 1.8 trillion dollars between 2001 and 2017 for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Based on this, another evaluation of US spending in the Middle East in issues related to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan shows that about 3.6 trillion dollars were spent in the period from 2001 to 2016.

Also, the research results of the “Watson” Institute of Public and International Affairs at “Brown” University on the costs of American war show that Washington has spent more than five trillion and 900 billion dollars and killed more than 500,000 people in foreign wars after the September 11th attacks. has left

Turkey’s “Anatolia” news agency recently investigated the crimes of America from the 1990s and the Persian Gulf War until today and writes: First Asia and then the Middle East region became the target of America’s adventure, and since the 1990s with the Persian Gulf War, America has Focus area. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, the American presence in the region intensified and changed the landscape of the Middle East.

As a result of the Persian Gulf War, about 5,000 civilians were killed, and during the subsequent wars, the casualties grew exponentially.

After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, it is estimated that more than one million people died due to chaos and civil war.

During the US attack on Afghanistan since 2001, about 240 thousand people have been killed in the war zones of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

According to the Brown University report, more than 71,000 Afghan and Pakistani civilians have lost their lives due to the war by April 2021.

Middle East American gunpowder warehouse

The export of military equipment continues to increase, and the destination of most of the military equipment exported is the Middle East countries.

According to a two-year survey by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States is still the largest exporter of military equipment in the world, increasing its share from 32% in 2011 to 2016 to 37% in the five years ending in 2020. gave Also, between 2014 and 2018, this source announced that the US share in arms exports was 36%.

In this report, it was stated that “America sells military equipment to 96 countries of the world, but nearly half of its customers (47%) are located in the Middle East. In the five years ending in 2020, Saudi Arabia alone was the importer of 24% of all US military equipment exports.

A few days ago, the American analytical website “Defense News” wrote in a report: The United States sold $175 billion in weapons to its foreign partners and allies in 2020, which is 2.8 percent more than last year. This amount of sales is estimated until the end of Trump’s administration, a person who made the increase in arms exports the main part and platform of his country’s economic growth.

Export licenses through the direct commercial sales program in fiscal year 2020 totaled $124.3 billion for sales in fiscal year 2020, compared to $114.7 billion last year.

Meanwhile, a series of reforms began in the Obama administration and continued during the Trump presidency. Reforms that have pushed more defense goods into the commercial sales arena.

In general, America’s interventions and war-mongering in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Palestine, etc., as well as the White House’s tension-generating policy between other Arab and non-Arab actors in the region, have led to erosive and wide-ranging crises that must be defined in line with America’s interests; First, they make the presence of the American military necessary to protect the Middle East allies, and secondly, by continuing the tension and fueling the worries, they send a flood of weapons to these countries.