Dear,
The article published on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack accurately points out that the United States of America “is the state which has repeatedly violated every rule and norm of state-to-state relations that has been agreed upon since the Second World War.”
The following is a list of the wars, armed interventions and coups organised by the USA since the end of the Second World War. The list may not be exhaustive.
1946: US occupied Philippines and South Korea
1947: US armed forces landed in Greece to suppress the anti-fascist forces
1948-49: US forces intervened in China’s liberation war and helped establish Taiwan
1949: CIA organised a coup in Syria
1950-53: Korean War
1953: CIA organised a coup in Iran
1954: US invaded Guatemala and installed a puppet regime
1955-75: Vietnam War
1961: Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
1962: US marines deployed to fight communists in Thailand
1965: US forces occupied Dominican Republic
1965-67: US armed fascist regime in Indonesia which killed millions of communists
1973: US aided Israel in Yom Kippur War
1973: CIA organised a military coup in Chile in which President Allende died
1979-88: CIA waged proxy war in Afghanistan
1981-86: CIA waged proxy war in Nicaragua
1988: US forces occupied Panama
1991-93: US armed Iraq to wage war on Iran
1994: US invaded Haiti
1995: US-led NATO bombing of Bosnia and Herzegovina
1998: US bombing of Iraq and missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan
1999: US intervention in the war in Kosovo
2001-21: US invaded and occupied Afghanistan
2002 onwards: US supported Saudi intervention in Yemen; drone strikes in Pakistan
2003 onwards: US invaded and occupied Iraq; assassinated Saddam Hussein
2007: US armed intervention in Somalia
2011: US-led NATO forces aggressed on Libya; assassinated Gaddafi
2012 onwards: US armed so-called rebels in Syria
2014: CIA engineered a coup in Ukraine and installed a pro-US regime
It is indisputable that US imperialism is the worst violator of national sovereignty and all accepted norms of civilised state-to-state relations. It thrives on war and interference in other people’s affairs. It poses the biggest danger to world peace.
Yours etc,
Mukund,
Vijayawada