{"id":32412,"date":"2018-03-16T06:59:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32412"},"modified":"2018-03-16T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T12:01:21","slug":"what-results-when-u-s-invades-a-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32412","title":{"rendered":"What Results When U.S. Invades a Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What Results When U.S. Invades a Country<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The U.S. Government certainly leads the world in invasions and coups.<\/p>\n

In recent years, it has invaded and occupied \u2014 either by military assault or by coup, but in either case followed by installing (or trying to install) a new regime there \u2014 a number of countries, especially Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.<\/p>\n

U.S. propaganda says that its invasions and military occupations (and it denies its coups) are to benefit the people in the invaded and militarily occupied countries, or to bring them \u2018democracy\u2019, and are not done merely to benefit the people who control the U.S. Government (which itself is not<\/i> a democracy<\/a>, and even the neoconservative \u2014 pro-invasion or \u201cimperialistic\u201d \u2014 American magazine The Atlantic<\/i> has finally acknowledged this fact<\/a>, even though it contradicts their continuing neoconservatism).<\/p>\n

Polling and other evidences within the invaded\/occupied countries shows the opposite of the U.S. claim: America\u2019s invasions\/occupations (after World War II, and especially after 2000) destroy<\/i> those countries, not<\/i> help them.<\/p>\n

The most authoritative such study that has yet been done on this matter was recently released, and its findings regarding this matter will here be presented, and then supplemented with other relevant data so as to provide a fuller picture.<\/p>\n

The U.N.\/Gallup surveys of the happiness\/misery of the residents in 155 countries, as reported in 2017<\/a>, were physically in-person interviews in almost all countries, but there was at least one exception, as they explained: \u201cIn Libya, telephone survey methodology has been used since 2015 owing to the country\u2019s high rate of mobile phone coverage and ongoing instability which has made it too dangerous to use face-to-face interviewers.\u201d<\/a> That\u2019s a highly euphemistic way of saying, actually: Libya was too dangerous, and perhaps too miserable, for opinions to be sampled by the ordinary methodology, the scientifically sound methodology, which is in-person interviews. It\u2019s a way of saying this without even mentioning the invasion and war there \u2014 as if those things don\u2019t even count. Therefore, the finding that Gallup reported about Libya is presumably being included in Gallup\u2019s otherwise excellent report purely for Western propaganda purposes \u2014 they know that it\u2019s not an actual scientific finding about Libya, not a finding that can reasonably be compared to the survey-findings in the other countries. As a result, Libya, which might have been the most miserable of all countries after the U.S.-UK-France-Canada invasion<\/a>, scored in the top half of all countries, #68, 5.525. But, all of the other countries that the U.S. has recently invaded (the nations that are boldfaced<\/b> below) scored at or below #132, 4.096 \u2014 Ukraine<\/b>\u2019s score \u2014 as is shown here below from that U.N. report:<\/p>\n

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What Results When U.S. Invades a Country The U.S. Government certainly leads the world in invasions and coups. In recent years, it has invaded and occupied \u2014 either by military assault or by coup, but in either case followed by installing (or trying to install) a new regime there \u2014 a number of countries, especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2321,4394,292,3215,442,4373,821,827,844,901],"class_list":["post-32412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-coup","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-failed-state","tag-invasion","tag-iraq","tag-the-saker","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us-military","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32413,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32412\/revisions\/32413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}