Jimu news reporter Wang Liangliang Huang Jiaqi
Since the end of World War II, the United States, which prides itself on being the "world policeman," has repeatedly disguised itself as an internationalist cloak to arbitrarily intervene in the internal affairs of other countries abroad under the pretext of "maintaining world order."
Whether the U.S. role in the international community has always been "the world's policeman" or a "source of trouble" may be answered by Afghanistan and Iraq, which have been plunged into economic collapse and political chaos after its invasion.
Afghanistan: The economy is collapsing and 6 million people are at risk of famine
In 2001, the U.S.-led coalition invaded Afghanistan in the name of "counterterrorism," lightning stormed the capital Kabul, overthrew the Taliban regime, fostered minority factions to establish a republican form of government, and maintained a large presence in Afghanistan for the next 20 years.
According to Xinhua News Agency, in the military operation that lasted for 20 years, the US military caused huge losses of life and property to Afghanistan. In Total, more than 30,000 civilians in Afghanistan have been killed or killed by U.S. forces, and more than 60,000 civilians have been injured and about 11 million have been refugees.
A family in Afghanistan eats (Image: Ap News Agency)
Last August, the United States withdrew its troops from Kabul and the Taliban regime formally took over Afghanistan. The 20-year war in Afghanistan ended with the hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops and the return of the Taliban to power, leaving behind a devastated country and a suffering people.
On the first anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Chief Martin Griffiths issued a warning to the world on August 29 that Afghanistan's economy has been completely destroyed, that the local population is experiencing growing poverty, that the entire country is facing multiple crises such as humanitarian, economic, climate, and hunger, and that 6 million people are at risk of famine.
Malnourished boys in Afghan hospitals (Image: Associated Press)
Griffiths said the conflict, poverty, climate shock and food insecurity in Afghanistan "have long been a sad reality," but said what makes the current situation "so critical" is the cessation of massive international development assistance since the Taliban took over Afghanistan a year ago.
On February 11, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order arbitrarily distributing the $7 billion of Afghanistan's central bank assets he had illegally frozen, half of which was used to compensate the victims of 9/11, effectively appropriating the money for himself. This move has been fiercely attacked by all parties in the international community, and Afghanistan is strongly opposed.
In addition, the United States has imposed sanctions on the Afghan banking sector, plunging it into a financial disaster and losing the funds needed to import necessities.
The 20-year failure of the U.S. military invasion of Afghanistan has left the local population in misery, and after being unable to clean up the mess it has caused, it hastily withdraws and illegally detains Afghan assets.
Relief groups warn that if the United States continues to cut afghanistan off from the global economy, it will trigger a humanitarian crisis.
The irresponsible hegemonic behavior of the United States has stunned the Afghan people and the international community.
According to CCTV News, polls show that 56.6 percent of Afghan respondents believe that "when U.S. troops withdraw in 2021, the Afghan economy is more difficult than in 2001," and 52.3 percent believe that "when U.S. troops withdraw in 2021, the Afghan people are poorer than in 2001." In response to the US freeze on the Central Bank of Afghanistan's $7 billion in assets, 74.1% of Afghan respondents believe that this is "naked plunder", and 68.5% of global respondents believe that the United States should unfrozen these assets and return them to Afghanistan.
On the eve of the first anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Vasily Nebizia, at a U.N. Security Council meeting, harshly criticized the United States and its NATO allies for their "shameful 20-year operations" in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported.
He said the United States would do nothing to help Afghanistan's economic development and that their presence would only strengthen Afghanistan's position as a "hotbed of terrorism and drug production and distribution."
Nebizia also accused the United States and its allies of abandoning Afghans to face "destruction, poverty, terrorism, hunger and other challenges."
"They didn't admit their mistakes and didn't support the reconstruction of this devastated country." "Instead, It has blocked Afghanistan's financial resources and cut off the country's central bank from SWIFT, the main system for global financial transactions," Nebizia said. ”
Iraq: Political chaos and conflict in the capital, Baghdad
On March 20, 2003, the United States and its Western allies blatantly invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime on the grounds that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, despite the strong opposition of the international community.
On August 31, 2010, then-U.S. President Barack Obama ended his U.S. mission in Iraq, declaring no victory after seven years of bloodshed.
According to Xinhua News Agency, to date, the United States has not produced evidence of weapons of mass destruction. The war has led to the devastation and continued turmoil in Iraq, with extremist groups taking advantage of the chaos and frequent terrorist attacks and sectarian clashes. According to the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs in the United States, at least 180,000 to 200,000 Iraqi civilians died in the Iraq War.
Nineteen years later, the woes planted by the United States in Iraq are still bearing fruit.
Violent clashes in the Iraqi capital (Image: Reuters)
On August 29, local time, Muqtada Sadr, the leader of The Iraqi Shiite religion and leader of the Sadr movement, announced through social platforms that he would permanently withdraw from Iraqi politics and close his political office, and then his supporters broke into the Prime Minister's Office located in the international district of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, breaking out into serious bloodshed and causing heavy casualties.
By August 30, local time, violent clashes in Baghdad, the iraqi capital, had killed at least 30 people and injured 700 others.
Violent clashes in Iraq's capital (Image: The Guardian)
The political impasse in Iraq is still difficult to resolve, the new Government has been delayed in establishing, and street protests and bloody clashes have continued.
On the face of it, the violent conflict and political chaos in Iraq are the result of intensifying internal political factional tensions. However, if we look back at history, we can find that in fact, the root cause of Iraq's political chaos is still the war waged by the United States and interfered in its internal affairs.
After the United States invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime, it led Iraq to establish a set of quota-based political decentralization system, resulting in domestic social division, numerous political factions, difficult to reconcile contradictions, long-term political instability, and frequent conflicts.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Iraqi political analyst Nadum Abdullah said that the United States has forced Western-style democracy in Iraq in the name of "spreading freedom and democracy", which eventually led to the division of Iraqi society and frequent conflicts.
Faraj Dalí, a Libyan political analyst, said the U.S. and Western interventions in Libya were a complete conspiracy, and that regime change in Libya was achieved by force rather than the will of the people, which plunged "us into an unpredictable civil war."
Invading other countries under the banner of "counter-terrorism," "human rights," and "democracy," the arrogant, hypocritical, and barbaric United States has committed evil on a global scale, sowing endless sources of turmoil for other countries, and its criminal acts will eventually be spurned by the international community.
(Source: Jimu News)
For more exciting information, please download the "Jimu News" client in the application market, please do not reprint it without authorization, welcome to provide news clues, and pay as soon as you adopt it. 24-hour reporting hotline 027-86777777.