Although the US always justifies the wars it wages abroad with various pretexts, facts have fully proved that the US is a hegemonic power with an addiction to war and the greatest source of risks to global peace and stability.
\n\u201cIn the early 21st century, if any power sought world domination, coercing others and flouting rules, it was the United States,\u201d said an article published on the website of The New York Times in October 2020.
\nThe year 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Afghan war and the 10th anniversary of the outbreaks of the wars in Libya and Syria. These wars are all a result of America\u2019s excessive and willful use of force.
\nThe US is the biggest driver behind the escalation of conflicts in relevant countries, and is inescapably responsible for the humanitarian disasters caused by these wars.
\nThe history of the US is one of constant wars of aggression and imperial expansion, according to American historian Paul Atwood, who pointed out that war is the American way of life.
\nThroughout about 240 years of U.S. history, there were only 16 years when it wasn\u2019t involved in a war. After World War II, the U.S. became a superpower and found it harder to resist its desire to wage wars.
\nIncomplete statistics show that from the end of World War II in 1945 to 2001, a total of 248 armed conflicts happened in 153 regions in the world, among which 201, or around 81 percent, were started by the US.
\nWaging wars across the world on various pretexts, the U.S. is the real culprit threatening world peace, according to Tom Fowdy, a British political and international relations analyst.
\nAlthough some wars have ended long before, the wounds and scars they left in certain countries and the grave consequences they caused for regional security landscape can still hardly heal or be remedied.
\nIt\u2019s estimated that at least 800,000 tons of explosive remnants of war from the U.S. remain to this day in Vietnam, which, at the current rate, would take 300 years to clean.
\nSince the beginning of the 21st century, the international landscape has undergone profound changes and the international community has shown a stronger desire for peace. However, the U.S. has never stopped waging wars against foreign countries.
\nThe war machine of the U.S. has roared all the way across the planet, inflicting disasters on countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.
\nStatistics released by the Smithsonian Institution in the U.S. revealed that the wars and military operations started by the U.S. in the name of counter-terrorism since 2001 have spread to more than 40 percent of the world\u2019s countries.
\nThese so-called \u201cwars on terror\u201d have killed over 800,000 people, made more than 38 million people destitute and homeless, and are estimated to cost the U.S. government more than $8 trillion, suggested data from the Costs of War Project of Brown University in the U.S.
\nIn summer this year, the chaos caused by the hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan astonished the world.
\nThe Afghan war that lasted for 20 years has brought untold sufferings to the Afghan people. More than 100,000 Afghan civilians were killed or injured by the weapons of U.S. armed forces and its allied forces, and over 10 million people lost their homes due to the war.
\nEventually, the U.S. armed forces simply walked away irresponsibly, leaving the Afghan people to face the long-term sufferings inflicted by the war.
\nThe huge disasters caused by those wars started and conflicts provoked by the U.S. abroad should have been a wake-up call for the country. However, up to now, the trigger-happy superpower still hasn\u2019t reflected upon its deeds and plucked up the courage to change its course.
\nIn order to avoid being held accountable by the international community for those wars and conflicts, the U.S. has racked its brains in proving the justifiability of its misdeeds, creating such rhetoric as Pax Americana, human rights above national sovereignty, duty to intervene and rules-based international order.
\nHowever, no matter how hard Washington tries to beautify those wars, it can neither make up for the huge loss of life caused by wars, erase the deep wounds wars left on countless families, reverse the turmoil and disorder caused by wars in other countries, nor cover up the long-term challenges wars posed to regional security landscape.
\nThe US should reflect on the pernicious influence of its war machine, pointed out an article published recently on Al-Watan, a newspaper in Bahrain.
\nPeace, development, and win-win cooperation have become the prevailing trend of the times. Going against the trend, the US frequently interferes in the domestic affairs of other countries on the pretext of \u201cdemocracy\u201d or \u201chuman rights\u201d, and still indulges in hegemonism and power politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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