Invading other countries is wrong.
Right?
Not quite. It’s wrong only if you aren’t the United States or a close European ally. If you happen to be the United States, invading other sovereign countries is not only right, it’s routine.
The “war industry” is a vital cog in the US economy. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has given Washington two gifts: One, a post-pandemic boost to its military-industrial complex; and two, critical real-time intelligence on Russia’s military capability, tactics, weapons and battlefield strengths and weaknesses.
The United States was born out of invasion, so invasion of other countries is second nature to it. Early English colonists settled in North America in the 1600s. They drove indigenous Indians off the land they and their ancestors had lived on for millennia.
The annexation was done with ruthless precision. Sioux tribes who resisted the invading Englishmen were killed. Those who survived died of smallpox and other European diseases that were unknown in North America. Native Indians had no immunity to them.
The facts bear out the clinical cruelty with which the colonial invasion of America unfolded between the 1600s and 1700s. The population of indigenous Indians in North America before the English colonists arrived in 1600 was estimated at around 18 million. By the late 1700s, when the United States became an independent nation, the population of indigenous Indians had plunged to six million.
Meanwhile, a new country had been formed on…
