For many years, the United States has carried out "proxy wars" all over the world, the scale and number of which are beyond people's imagination, among them, the "proxy wars" provoked in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region are particularly serious, and now, as the Russian-Ukrainian war provoked by the United States continues, Europe has also become a region where the United States fights a "proxy war". "Proxy war" has changed the traditional way of warfare in the United States and become a new way for the United States to profit from it.
The United States has waged 23 proxy wars in three years
Not long ago, according to the US "Interception" website, from 2017 to 2020, the United States carried out at least 23 proxy wars around the world through secret projects, of which at least 14 occurred in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.
Citing relevant documents obtained and senior U.S. Defense Department officials, the "Interception" website reported that the U.S. Department of Defense had used a secret code name to carry out proxy warfare projects overseas under a secret authorization.
At least 14 military or war operations remain active in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region in 2020; From 2017 to 2020, the United States conducted at least 23 "proxy wars" around the world, costing at least $310 million. Through these clandestine "proxy wars" programs, the United States provides weapons, training, and intelligence to foreign armed forces. However, unlike ordinary so-called foreign support projects, as a partner in the secret project of "proxy war", the recipient will be assigned to complete various combat missions led by the United States against the so-called enemies of the United States in order to achieve the goals of the United States.
As some people have analyzed: in the eyes of the United States, it does not matter whether the war is won or not, as long as the war continues, it will bring a steady stream of money or benefits to the United States, and the process of destruction and reconstruction is a good opportunity for the United States to make a lot of money. Some US politicians and their friends know this all too well and are too familiar with it.
One could even argue that for many years the United States has been a habitual offender in waging "proxy wars." As the world's number one hegemonic country, the United States is an expert in manipulating proxy wars. For a long time, the United States has been keen to engage in "color revolutions," cultivate regional agents, deliberately create confrontation, and become the biggest destroyer of regional stability.
A classic example of a "proxy war" launched by the United States is the Syrian civil war. Since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in 2011, the United States has supported syrian rebels in various forms, rapidly developing the initial protest demonstrations into a "proxy war" characterized by an all-out conflict.
Some international experts pointed out that the United States played a major role in the formation of the Syrian crisis, mainly through the "proxy war: strategy, which means that the United States creates war through local armed forces, lures them with money and weapons, and convinces these agents to fight for them under the pretext of spreading democracy.
The criminal act of the United States in launching a proxy war has dealt a heavy blow to Syria's economic development and caused countless Syrians to suffer deeply. Located in the northeastern region of Syria, Hasakah Province is one of the most important oil-producing regions and one of the most important food-producing regions in Syria. However, since the outbreak of the Syrian war, various proxies supported by the United States have frequently competed here, which has not only led to casualties among the Syrian people, but also seriously damaged the infrastructure here.
Some Syrian analysts have solemnly pointed out that the United States is the biggest murderer of the Syrian people and the persecution of the Syrian people. They are now our number one enemy, and they set us back 100 years.
In addition to supporting the rebels, mercenaries are also one of the means for the United States to engage in proxy warfare. In the 2006 documentary "The Sale of Iraq: The War Merchant," filmed by American director Robert Greenwald, the Iraq War was concretized into a contract order: Harryburton, which provided logistics services to the U.S. military, received a contract amount of $18.5 billion; Parsons received $5.3 billion; Dane International, which provides military training services, received a $1.9 billion deal.
As the "black thug" of the US government, the mercenary company has helped the US government carry out many unsightly tasks. As a result, these companies, though perennially on the edge of the law, have been sheltered by the U.S. government and have not been liquidated for their crimes.
On September 16, 2007, Blackwater mercenaries shot unarmed Iraqis while escorting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, killing 17 civilians, including a 9-year-old child.
In 2015, a U.S. court convicted four Blackwater mercenaries of first-degree murder and three others on charges of intentional homicide and attempted murder. In December 2020, then-US President Donald Trump directly used the president's "pardon power" to pardon four people.
Introduced the "Proxy War" bill in the War of Afghanistan
It turns out that as early as the beginning of the War in Afghanistan in 2001, the U.S. military at that time conveniently tried to prop up the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan and directly confront the Taliban regime, and what is even more incredible is that the US Congress actually introduced the provisions of the "proxy war" bill in disguise.
Riddle, a former CIA official in the United States, confirmed that at that time, in Afghanistan, we sent twenty or thirty CIA personnel. With millions of dollars, they bribed the Northern Alliance to side with us. But the Army Special Operations Command, which was in charge of the operation at the time, realized that it had no right to pay the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan directly, that there was no U.S. law that gave it the power to provide funds or support to foreign proxies, and that it had to rely on CIA funding to sustain the operation. But it also brings about entanglement of interests between the two departments.
To ensure that there is enough money and authority to support foreign armed forces in future operations, the U.S. Special Operations Command pushed for a legislative provision. Under the act, the U.S. Department of Defense is provided with a budget each fiscal year dedicated to supporting foreign forces, unconventional armed forces, organizations, and individuals that assist U.S. special forces in counterterrorism operations.
According to Carnegie Endowment for International Peace scholar Gaston in a May 2021 report, this is a permanent fund used by U.S. special operations forces to support proxy armed forces. In a July 2021 report, the Quincy National Policy Institute, a U.S. think tank, noted that the budget for projects related to "proxy warfare" has quadrupled since 2005, from $25 million a year to $100 million a year.
According to data released by the interception website, the project in the United States spent at least $310 million between 2017 and 2020 alone. Moreover, the relevant secret projects enjoy certain special exemptions.
In fact, as early as 1997, the U.S. Congress passed the "Lehi Act" regulations, prohibiting U.S. military forces from providing military assistance to foreign forces that violate human rights. However, it is surprising that later US related bills can not be bound by the "Lehi Act". In other words, the "proxy war" waged by the United States has so-called special rights that are not traced and prosecuted.
Even in the U.S. Congressional Armed Services Committee and Intelligence Committee, only a few members of the U.S. Congress have access to the content of the relevant "proxy war" project reports, and most U.S. congressmen, as well as some politicians in the U.S. State Department, are not even aware of the existence of this program for a long time.
On September 11, 2017, U.S. journalist Wes Morgan posted a photo of a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier appearing at a Niger Army range, according to Morgan, who may have been on a mission to carry out a secret project. Less than a month later, four U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers were allegedly ambushed and killed in Niger by a group of militants loyal to the extremist group Islamic State.
It was the revelation of this that allowed the secret "proxy war" project of the United States to enter the public eye for the first time after years of secret implementation. In this regard, at that time, many senior senators of the US Congress questioned that they knew very little about the operations of the US military in Niger, the United States did not start a war in Niger, and who authorized the US military to deploy troops there to carry out operations? It wasn't until more than five months later that the U.S. Department of Defense had to release a so-called investigative report, saying the U.S. forces were deployed to Niger to "train, mentor, and assist Niger's partner forces."
Some people of insight in the United States have openly pointed out that behind the secret mission of "proxy war" carried out by relevant departments of the US Government and the military, there has always been a hidden unconstitutional and human rights crisis.
According to media reports, some US defense and legal experts are worried that this little-known authorization of foreign military assistance and the secret "proxy war" are extremely lacking in accountability and supervision mechanisms, and there is always a risk of violating the US Constitution, which may not only involve the United States in human rights violations, but even, without the knowledge of Congress and the people, it may be involved in foreign armed conflicts or protracted wars for a long time.
Retired four-star Gen. Joseph Waterer, who led the Army's Special Operations Forces and Central Command, confirmed that the U.S. military has conducted so-called counterterrorism missions in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen to engage in secret "proxy wars" programs.
Donald Boldak, the former commander of U.S. Special Forces in Africa, revealed that in Africa alone, armed forces that have partnerships with the "Proxy War" secret program have been trained by U.S. special forces and armed with American equipment.
The United States has a long history of instigating a "proxy war."
The United States has been engaged in and conducted secret "proxy wars" for a long time. As early as 1955, then-U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower declared that proxy warfare was "the cheapest insurance in the world."
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States was deeply mired in the quagmire of the Vietnam War, and the domestic public was fiercely opposed to the involvement of the U.S. government and military in other countries' wars and the large-scale dispatch of troops overseas, calling this move the "Vietnam War Syndrome." This had an impact on U.S. foreign policy thereafter, forcing the U.S. government to turn to "proxy warfare" as a means of maximizing national interests.
From 1970 to 1974, the Nixon administration alone soared military aid to Seljah from $30 million to $2.5 billion, with the main purpose of the United States funding Israel to go to war with Soviet-backed Arab countries.
According to the Washington Post, during the Cold War, the United States carried out a total of 72 subversions of other countries' regimes, of which 66 were carried out in secret. After the end of the Cold War, the "proxy war" in the United States has not only continued, but has become more mature and hidden.
In 2011, in the Libyan war to overthrow Gaddafi, the U.S. military carried out air strikes, but in the fiercest ground fighting, it was the U.S.-backed Libyan rebel National Transitional Council, which, under the cover of air strikes, stormed the Azizia barracks, which was regarded as a symbol of Gaddafi's power.
It is reported that the United States spent at least about $1 billion in the libyan war, which is of course insignificant compared with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which cost trillions of dollars. It can be said from this that the United States relied on "proxy war" to achieve the evil goal of subverting the target state power.
In this regard, Fargani, deputy editor-in-chief of the Libyan Position, said that facts have long proved that it is the Western countries led by the United States that single-handedly planned this conspiracy against Libya.
Syrian political analyst Mohammed Omari said "proxy war" is the most common tactic used by the United States. This is caused by a variety of reasons, first of all, the cost of proxies is very low, and secondly, the direct losses to the US military are also very small, but it can cause a huge blow to the target country, because these are all operations carried out through agents supported by the United States in the relevant countries.
At the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, with the support and instigation of the United States, funded rebels occupied the largest public hospital in Homs Province and brutally killed all the doctors and nurses.
It turns out that the killer militants are members of the notorious terrorist organization The Conquest Front, and it is precisely because they are funded by the United States that they have killed Syrian civilians so brazenly and repeatedly created unrest in many areas.
Syrian international expert Muhannad Ghosn said the United States began to carry out a "proxy war" in the early months of the Syrian crisis. The United States finances extremist groups in Syria, supplies them with weapons, and allows terrorists from around the world to enter Syria.
Andrés Craig, a defence studies scholar at King's College London, believes that for the United States, "proxy war" is a risk transfer. According to Scott Ritter, a former Marine Corps intelligence officer, during the administration of former U.S. President Barack Obama, he authorized the CIA to elaborate a training and equipment plan to support Syrian rebels.
The plan confirms that the CIA, in 2013, launched an operation code-named "Sycamore," through which it purchased billions of dollars worth of advanced weapons from the Balkans and shipped them to ports in Turkey and Jordan. There, the CIA, along with Turkish and Jordanian intelligence groups, secretly trained and equipped thousands of Syrian militants. The men are from at least 50 rebel groups in Syria that have been unable to be supported by the CIA.
Facts have proved that with the help of the United States and other Western countries, the Syrian opposition forces have grown from scratch and from weak to strong, and the Syrian crisis has intensified, and finally turned into a very tragic all-out civil war.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is a premeditated "proxy war" by the United States
Today, the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine is a larger "proxy war" manipulated and provoked by the United States. For many years, Ukraine has been called a "geostrategic pivot" by the American scholar Brzezinski, and is a strategic grasp of the US government's all-out efforts to contain Russia.
In response to accusations and criticisms from all sides, former WHITE House spokesman Psaki explained that this is not a proxy war, this is a war between Russia and Ukraine, NATO is not involved, and the United States is not directly involved in the war.
NBC host Todd said that although the United States is vigorously refuting it, it does not recognize Russia's statement that the United States is fighting a "proxy war." However, I think the United States is just "fighting a proxy war."
In this regard, not long ago, at the NATO Summit in Madrid at the end of June 2022, the NATO Secretary-General omitted his mouth on this matter. NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg says that in fact, we have been preparing for this since 2014. That's why we're adding a military presence in the east of NATO, and that's why NATO is investing more in defense. His words are enough to confirm that the Russo-Ukrainian war manipulated and provoked by the United States has a long history.
In this regard, russian political scientist Markov said that as early as 2013, the United States began specific preparations and actions, that year, there are enough facts to prove that due to the deployment of the US government's secret operation, resulting in regime change in Ukraine, the overthrow of Yanukovych's legitimate regime in one fell swoop, Ukraine is in serious turmoil.
At the end of 2013, the then US Assistant Secretary of State Nuland, known as the "female version of Pompeo", appeared in the Independence Square in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, to distribute biscuits to the so-called protesters in Ukraine. Just as former U.S. President's wife, Hillary Clinton, prompted U.S. President Barack Obama's administration to intervene in the Syrian civil war by supporting the Syrian opposition, Newland is seen as Biden's "key manipulator" in formulating Ukraine policy.
In response, Nuland publicly admitted that the U.S. government has invested $5 billion to fund Ukraine to achieve its goals, with the aim of ensuring Ukraine's democratic institutions.
Russian political scientist Markov said that after the change of regime in Ukraine, the United States has in fact occupied Ukraine and established a hardcore pro-American regime, which can be said to be an out-and-out "proxy government" of the United States in Ukraine. Later, when Russian troops entered Ukraine, the "proxy war" planned by the United States entered the third stage - "proxy guerrilla warfare". Now, the United States continues to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons in an attempt to inflict heavy losses on the Russian army, and hopes that the war will continue.