The aftermath of the 2020 US election has been analyzed by the “Nation” saying “Our endless wars led to the invasion of Congress.”
As a former soldier in America’s forever wars, I found what happened strangely familiar, almost inevitable says Kevin Tillman.
Just when everyone was shocked by what happened in Congress on January 6, for me as a soldier in America’s perpetual wars, the congressional incident was strangely familiar, it was somehow inevitable.
In my opinion, if we took the history of our kingdom seriously, none of us would have considered the incident of that day unprecedented or shocking.
The belief that the January 6 incident was a new event in our country is therefore a unique insult to the American theory of democracy and the discourse of public decency is incorrect.
However, since 1945, the country has regularly interfered in elections around the world and is doing very poorly; But this time we did it ourselves.
My limited experience with US intervention includes the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq; Being part of an illegal attack has lasting effects.
This particular intervention in Iraq began with a plethora of lies about Saddam’s possible supply of weapons of mass destruction, his famous links to al-Qaeda, and the idea of liberating the Iraqi people. Therefore, when I witnessed the January 6 uprising, my mind immediately turned to the period leading up to the Iraq war, except that this time, they were beating the drums of lies related to widespread election fraud. Obviously, the two events were very different in scale, complexity, and degradation. But they seem to have common ground.
American interventions in the administration of foreign countries through coups, regime change, and other tricks are common in our modern history. Replacing a number of democratically elected leaders, such as the Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mossadegh, who succeeded him to the throne (1953); The most famous case (1973), or Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in the US-backed coup (2009).
In fact, US intervention has been ongoing around the world: attacks, military coups, soft wars, economic sanctions, inciting existing conflicts. Take our neighbors in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean, for example. I do not think there is a nation in Latin America that has not fallen victim to American intervention in any way: Argentina (1976), Bolivia (1971), Brazil (1964), Cuba (1961), El Salvador (1980s), Grenada (1983), Haiti (2004), Honduras (1980 and 2009), Panama (1989), Paraguay (1962), Peru (1968), Suriname (1980s), Uruguay (1973)
