Timeline of US wars of aggression and expansion

reedak · Jul 28, 2020

Part 1

1. The only US president to complete his term without war, military attack or occupation has called the United States “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.”

During his regular Sunday school lesson at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter revealed that he had recently spoken with President Donald Trump about China. Carter, 94, said Trump was worried about China’s growing economy and expressed concern that “China is getting ahead of us.”

Carter, who normalized diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing in 1979, said he told Trump that much of China’s success was due to its peaceful foreign policy....

Carter then said the US has been at peace for only 16 of its 242 years as a nation. Counting wars, military attacks and military occupations, there have actually only been five years of peace in US history — 1976, the last year of the Gerald Ford administration and 1977-80, the entirety of Carter’s presidency. Carter then referred to the US as “the most warlike nation in the history of the world,” a result, he said, of the US forcing other countries to “adopt our American principles.”...

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/19/jimmy-carter-us-most-warlike-nation-in-history-of-the-world/

2. In colonising the so-called New World, the British Empire has created a Frankenstein, or worse, a Dracula that sucks up all resources from other countries. What followed the American Revolution was more than 130 years of power struggle between the US and the British Empire.

Just look at Trump's "America First" policy. When it comes to the crunch, the US would dump its so-called allies, leaving them high and dry despite their so-called shared values and collective interests. For instance in April this year, German officials accused the US of "modern day piracy" for seizing 200,000 masks they had ordered from a 3M factory in China.

Germany accuses the US of 'modern day piracy' for seizing a shipment of medical equipment - as French officials claim they were forced to fight with American buyers for millions of masks on a Chinese tarmac

3. Below is part of the timeline of US wars of aggression and expansion

Conflict ==> Combatant that fought against the US

(a) American Revolutionary War ==> British Empire
(1775–1783)

(b) Northwest Indian War ==> British Empire and Western Confederacy
(1785–1793)

(c) Quasi-War ==> France
(1798–1800)

(d) First Barbary War ==> Eyalet of Tripolitania, Morocco, Tunisia and Regency of Algiers
(1801–1805)

(e) War of 1812 ==> British Empire
(1812–1815)

(f) Second Barbary War ==> Eyalet of Tripolitania, Regency of Algiers and Tunisia
(1815)

(g) First Seminole War ==> Spain
(1817–1818)

(h) First Sumatran expedition ==> Chiefdom of Kuala Batee (present-day Indonesia)
(1832)

(i) Texas Revolution ==> Mexican Republic
(1835–1836)

(j) Second Sumatran expedition ==> Chiefdom of Kuala Batee (present-day Indonesia)
(1838)

(k) Aroostook War ==> British Empire
(1838)

(l) Ivory Coast expedition ==> Ivory Coast
(1842)

(m) Mexican–American War ==> Mexico
(1846–1848)

(n) First Fiji expedition ==> Fiji
(1855)

(o) Second Fiji expedition ==> Fiji
(1859)

(p) Shimonoseki War ==> Chōshū Domain
(1863–1864)

(q) Formosa expedition ==> Paiwan
(1867)

(r) Korea expedition ==> Joseon Dynasty
(1871)

(s) Second Samoan Civil War ==> Mataafans and Germany
(1898–1899)

(t) Spanish–American War ==> Spain
(1898)

(u) Philippine–American War ==> Spain
(1899–1902)

(v) Moro Rebellion ==> Moro and Remnants of the Sulu Sultanate
(1899–1913)

(w) Border War ==> Mexico and Germany
(1910–1919)

(x) Occupation of Veracruz ==> Mexico
(1914)

(y) Occupation of the Dominican Republic ==> Dominican Republic
(1916–1924)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States

basionok · Jul 29, 2020

The United States declared war on Britain in 1812, after clashing with London over trade restrictions and ongoing British military encroachments in the United States. Most Native American groups sided with the British, which had been supplying arms, ammunition, and support to tribal leaders in regional land conflicts with Americans, including the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe. Native American communities, including the Chippewa, the Ho-Chunk Nation, and the Menominee Nation, sided against the United States in the brutal 1812 conflict.

The Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin "side[d] with the British against the United States. They [were] involved in a number of battles during the war, including the capture of Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island and battles in the Prairie du Chien area."

The Potawatomi clashed with American soldiers in one of the most violent conflicts of the war, the Battle of Fort Dearborn, in which 12 children were killed by indigenous fighters as they attempted to evacuate the fort. The leader of the evacuation, Capt. William Wells, had his heart torn out and eaten by the Native American tribe.

The tribe also participated in the Battle of Frenchtown, also known as the "River Raisin Massacre," in which tents for wounded U.S. troops were set on fire by indigenous fighters, and soldiers who tried to escape were killed with tomahawks.

Dem Platform Honors Native American Tribes That Fought Against U.S. in War of 1812

The preamble to the Democratic Party’s draft platform formally honors a list of Native American tribes that resided on the land where its convention is being held—but neglects to acknowledge that many of these groups allied with the British and took up arms against the United States during the...

freebeacon.com

reedak · Jul 29, 2020

basionok said:
The United States declared war on Britain in 1812, after clashing with London over trade restrictions and ongoing British military encroachments in the United States. Most Native American groups sided with the British, which had been supplying arms, ammunition, and support to tribal leaders in regional land conflicts with Americans, including the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe. Native American communities, including the Chippewa, the Ho-Chunk Nation, and the Menominee Nation, sided against the United States in the brutal 1812 conflict.

The Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin "side[d] with the British against the United States. They [were] involved in a number of battles during the war, including the capture of Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island and battles in the Prairie du Chien area."

The Potawatomi clashed with American soldiers in one of the most violent conflicts of the war, the Battle of Fort Dearborn, in which 12 children were killed by indigenous fighters as they attempted to evacuate the fort. The leader of the evacuation, Capt. William Wells, had his heart torn out and eaten by the Native American tribe.

The tribe also participated in the Battle of Frenchtown, also known as the "River Raisin Massacre," in which tents for wounded U.S. troops were set on fire by indigenous fighters, and soldiers who tried to escape were killed with tomahawks.

Dem Platform Honors Native American Tribes That Fought Against U.S. in War of 1812

The preamble to the Democratic Party’s draft platform formally honors a list of Native American tribes that resided on the land where its convention is being held—but neglects to acknowledge that many of these groups allied with the British and took up arms against the United States during the...

freebeacon.com

Well said. Thanks for the historical information.

basionok · Jul 30, 2020

The American Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with Russia, founded in fall 1920 and representing 800,000 New York union members, resolved that “the State Department take immediate steps to remove all obstacles to trade with Russia…,” a sentiment at odds with U.S foreign policy, which then had as its goal to strangle the infant socialist republic in its crib.

Additionally, the Labor Alliance and its objectives were “endorsed by 12 international and national unions, more than a score of state federations of labor, and the central labor unions of 72 cities in 29 states…,” all affiliated with the AFL and “representing a membership of 2,500,000 workers,” more than half of the Federation’s membership at the time. We even learn that Samuel Gompers’ (the AFL’s reactionary president) union, the Cigar Makers, endorsed normalizing relations with the Soviets, Gompers’ disdain for socialism notwithstanding.

In The Bolshevik Revolution we learn of the clergy’s early support for the revolution, as Dr. John Haynes Holmes, pastor the New York City Church of the Messiah, for example, would proclaim, “Thank God for the Russian Revolution.” We also hear directly from “a Wall Street millionaire, a banker, a captain of industry, a ‘mining king,’ Col. William Boyce Thompson,” who spent six months in Soviet Russia and told newspapers upon his return: “I sincerely believe that Russia is pointing the way to general peace, just as she is pointing the way to great sweeping world changes…,” not least of which was the then-ascending tide of workers’ revolts, strikes, the growth in unionism generally, and socialist revolutions to come.

We also learn of legendary socialist Eugene V. Debs’ early support for the revolution. He would write, “The world stands amazed, astounded, awe-inspired…” by the Bolsheviks, adding, “…whatever may be the fate of the revolution, its flaming soul is immortal.” It is a sentiment still shared by many one hundred years after its birth.

Debs would also declare: “I am a Bolshevik and proud of it.”

Just as important as the documentary history comprising Foner’s book is Gerald Horne’s introduction to the centennial edition, an introduction that places the revolution—though ultimately defeated—in world historical context.

Horne shows the linkage to and inspiration from another great revolution, that of Haiti. He sheds light on the role of Soviet communists as well as Haitian revolutionaries; the latter marked “a general crisis of the entire slave system…,” while the former marked “a general crisis of the entire system of capitalism,” and both “shook the world,” to paraphrase John Reed.

Further, Horne highlights the “widespread support” from African Americans—most notably W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson—for the revolution, and notes that, given the history of first slavery and then wage exploitation, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Bolsheviks received so much support in the United States, especially among Black workers.

‘Thank God for the Russian Revolution’: When America discovered Bolshevism

New People’s World series—The Centennial of the Russian Revolution November 7, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the world’s first socialist state.

peoplesworld.org

basionok · Jul 30, 2020

In the 1920s the cream of American firms involved with automobiles, electricity, and workplace management were eager to sell the state of their art—give or take a few years—to the “Reds,” despite powerful anticommunist voices on the right. The Soviets were ready to buy, despite their aversion to capitalism. (They distinguished, as many Americans cannot even today, between America’s history-shaping means of production and our free-enterprise economic superstructure.) The United States had never enjoyed greater worldwide respect—or envy—than after World War I. The Soviets believed that the American system of production could consolidate the Bolshevik Revolution.

The Soviet economy passed through several phases between the world wars. From 1917 to 1921, the period of War Communism, the Bolsheviks attempted desperately and unsuccessfully to turn industry over to trade unions and committees of workers. The country overcame the foreign and civil wars of these years only after the authorities began to restore managers and engineers to their old jobs. Then, in 1921, with the country near exhaustion and industrial production stalled, Lenin called for a New Economic Policy. It involved a temporary retreat from centralized planning and control. The regime now tolerated substantial private and market enterprise while retaining control of the “commanding heights,” which included heavy industry, transportation, and electricity supply. During these years the government embarked on the national planning process that culminated in 1928 in the First Five-Year Plan. With it came a drive to eliminate private enterprise in both industry and agriculture.

During the period of War Communism, the importation of Western technology and experts was impossible, but under the New Economic Policy, Western manufacturers were allowed to establish and operate plants in the Soviet Union. During the First Five-Year Plan, the Soviets turned to the outright purchase and import of foreign production plants. Foreign experts, especially American, supervising Soviet workers and engineers, set these plants into operation and then turned them over to Soviet managers; always fearful of dependence on the capitalist world, the Soviet leadership was struggling to avoid the import of manufactured goods by pursuing instead the adoption of the means of producing them. The large-scale transfer of technology that followed was the most intense in history, and it should be recognized as a major chapter in the Soviet past. Before then Russia still resembled a preindustrial nation, with a lingering reliance on human and animal power and an agricultural economic base. Joseph Stalin later claimed that he had found Russians using wooden plows and left them with nuclear reactors. That, of course, was rhetoric; railroads, iron and steel production, textile manufacture, and foreign loans were rapidly industrializing many regions of Russia before the 1917 Revolution. But the speed of change was multiplied after 1921 by the forced adoption of foreign technology.

How America Helped Build The Soviet Machine

To bring their nation to the leading edge of technology, Soviet leaders are turning to the United States. Their grandfathers did the same thing.

www.americanheritage.com

reedak · Jul 31, 2020

fishing conservative said:
America has not been colonial since 1945.

Leftists can stop lyie
There was one other war we should have fought..

We should have helped the Russians squash the bolsheviks.

Communism is immoral and no government has the right to impose it on their people.

Yes, you and your rogue politicians have the right to impose your tyranny on the Native Americans.

reedak · Jul 31, 2020

fishing conservative said:
No, they don't have that right at all.

Finally, you are talking some sense.

reedak · Jul 31, 2020

fishing conservative said:
Been talking sense the whole time.

Please keep it up. Don't let me catch you talking nonsense again.

basionok · Aug 3, 2020

t is August, 2020, now seventy-five years since the end of America's World War II hostilities with the nation then known as the Empire of Japan. August 6 and 9 are the historic anniversary dates of the first and only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. In the ensuing three quarters of a century, the attacks of 1945 on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — their usefulness and their rectitude — have been the subject of vigorous debate over their military, scientific, political, historic, and moral significance.

Schools of thought regarding yes-or-no justification generally break down as follows:

Yes. The European and Pacific wars were already too costly in lives and property. A quick end was mandatory.

No. The European war was already over, and the Pacific conflict was winding down. The Soviet Union, free from battling Germany, was soon to engage in hostile action against Japan.

Yes. There were no good options. This was the least bad alternative.

No. Regardless of military considerations, the attacks were a crime against humanity for the massive carnage of Japan's innocent civilian population, and Japan was presumably about to capitulate. America should apologize to Japan.

Yes. Western notions of chivalry, honor, and humane treatment of vanquished opponents were alien to Japan's ruthless, barbarous, and sadistic military culture. A powerful checkmate was required, and Japan should apologize to the world.

The Atomic Attacks on Japan: Justified or Not?

It is August, 2020, now seventy-five years since the end of America's World War II hostilities with the nation then known as the Empire of Japan. August 6 and 9 are the historic anniversary dates of the first and only use of nuclear we...

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