Thread by @caitoz

Tens Of Millions Of People Displaced By The ‘War On Terror’, The Greatest Scam Ever Invented

A new report has found that at least 37 million people (a conservative estimate) have been displaced as a result of America's so-called “war on terror” since 9/11
medium.com/@caityjohnston…

That number, “at least 37 million”, happens by pure coincidence to be the exact same number of Americans reported to suffer from food insecurity because their government spends their wealth and resources killing and displacing people overseas.
hungerandhealth.feedingamerica.org/understand-foo…

This inconvenient revelation, which was actually reported on by The New York Times for once, is causing conniptions for all the right people.

Sure @joshrogin, it’s not like the extremist forces who flooded Syria with the goal of toppling Damascus were backed by the US and its allies and sprung into existence as a direct result of the regional destabilization caused western interventionism in the name of fighting terror

Oh wait no that's exactly what happened.

“It tells us that U.S. involvement in these countries has been horrifically catastrophic, horrifically damaging in ways that I don’t think that most people in the United States, in many ways myself included, have grappled with or reckoned with in even the slightest terms.”

Tens of millions of people forced to flee their homes in desperation as a result of the violence and destabilization caused by US interventions justified by the need to fight “terrorism”. How many Americans have indeed grappled with or reckoned with this in the slightest terms?

Contemplated the scale and the depth of the suffering those interventions are causing real human beings with the same capacity for anguish as themselves? Asked themselves if the ends really justify the devastating means? And who the real terrorists really are?

The “war on terrorism” is just high-budget, mass-scale terrorism, and it creates more terrorism of the ordinary variety as well. Suicide bombings have been unequivocally shown to be almost entirely the result of western interventionism,
foreignpolicy.com/2010/10/18/its…

The “war on terror” is not only terrorism itself, it is an established fact that it actually creates more of the type of terrorism it purports to eliminate.
theintercept.com/collections/me…

And why wouldn’t it? Why wouldn’t destroying and destabilizing entire nations cause people to want to fight back against you? It is self-evident that it would. As Jonathan Marshall wrote for Consortium News in 2017:
consortiumnews.com/2017/11/14/the…

So why does it continue, then? Why is this interventionism and occupation continuing and escalating, despite the fact that we know all it does is create more misery, displacement and terrorism?

Easy: because that’s exactly what it’s designed to do.

Perhaps the single greatest scam ever devised is the way the empire found it can kill and displace people in geostrategically crucial regions under the guise of fighting terrorism, then when violence and extremism inevitably arises use it to justify more killing and displacement.

It’s an endless self-reinforcing positive feedback loop of violence, and it enables imperialist forces to move ever more troops, bases and war machinery into the areas they need to lock down to help them choke off nations that disobey them.
medium.com/@caityjohnston…

The more devastating interventionism the US causes, the more people want to fight the US. The more people want to fight the US, the more devastating military interventionism can be justified to a public that doesn’t grapple with or reckon with it in even the slightest terms.

And the oil keeps flowing. And the money keeps stacking. And the beat goes on.

We are ruled by monsters.