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+<h1 class="title">Why America is involved in every major war</h1>
+<p class="author">axtlos (axtlos@tar.black)</p>
+</header>
+<h1 id="introduction">Introduction</h1>
+<blockquote>
+<p>“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes
+think they are going to profit from it.”<br />
+― George Orwell <span class="citation"
+data-cites="orwell-quote"></span></p>
+</blockquote>
+<h2 id="the-purpose-of-this-term-paper">The purpose of this Term
+Paper</h2>
+<p>At the time of writing this, war is starting to become a more
+important topic again, with the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 <span
+class="citation" data-cites="bbc-invasion-ukraine"></span>, increasing
+complications between China and Taiwan <span class="citation"
+data-cites="bbc-china-taiwan"></span>, as well as the US withdrawal from
+Afghanistan and the following takeover from the Taliban <span
+class="citation" data-cites="cfr-afghanistan"></span>.</p>
+<p>In the western world, people usually take a side with the US or other
+western countries and see them as the "good guys", however people often
+fail to see the background of wars and completely ignore the fact that
+wars are not for the "Liberation of a country" <span class="citation"
+data-cites="george-bush-liberation-iraq"></span>, but for the profit of
+those, who win the war. Which, due to the NATO mainly consisting of
+Western countries and being <em>the</em> strongest Military force, is
+guaranteed to be them <span class="citation"
+data-cites="nato-strongest-force"></span>. With this Term paper I want
+to show that there are no "good guys" in a war, only "better guys" at
+best.</p>
+<p>The reason I chose the United States for this is simple, they are the
+strongest force in the NATO <span class="citation"
+data-cites="statista-nato-aircraft-strength"></span>, which results in
+them having the most influence in NATO decisions. If I want to show the
+reasons for wars, then America will be the best example since other NATO
+countries follow America in a lot of military decisions.</p>
+<p>But it should also be noted that America is not the only country
+guilty of starting wars because of money, every war is in some way
+caused by money, no matter if the war was started by America, Russia,
+China or any other country. Every war is a crime on humanity and an
+example as to why Capitalism is a horrible economic structure.</p>
+<h2 id="list-of-wars-america-was-involved-with">List of wars America was
+involved with</h2>
+<p>Since the second World War, America has been involved in four War
+operations <span class="citation"
+data-cites="va-gov-american-wars"></span>. The Korean war, Vietnam war,
+Operation Desert Storm, which is also known as the Gulf War <span
+class="citation" data-cites="defense-gov-gulf"></span>, and the Global
+War on Terror <span class="citation"
+data-cites="va-gov-american-wars"></span>.</p>
+<p>In these four wars the US committed a bunch of war crimes, the
+most common one being massacres of unarmed civilians. The
+US made no efforts in cooperating with human rights organizations or the
+International Criminal Court, effectively commending any war crimes US
+soldiers committed <span class="citation"
+data-cites="globaltimes-us-evade-warcrimes"></span>.</p>
+<h2 id="vietnam-war">Vietnam War</h2>
+<p>The Vietnam War is most likely one of the most well-known wars
+America was involved with. The origins of this war date back to the end
+of the second world war in 1945, where Japan withdrew its soldiers from
+Vietnam, which then was split up into the Democratic Republic of
+Vietnam, under control of Ho Chi Minh, who strove to create a country
+following Chinese and Soviet Communism <span class="citation"
+data-cites="vietnam-war-history"></span> and the state of Vietnam under
+control of the French emperor Bao Dai, who wanted a Vietnam which had
+close cultural and economic ties to the West <span class="citation"
+data-cites="vietnam-war-history"></span>.</p>
+<p>Both sides of Vietnam had signed a treaty in the year 1945 during the
+Geneva Convention, which split Vietnam along the 17 degrees North
+Latitude, also known as 17th Parallel and set Minh in control of the
+North and Dai in control of the South.<br />
+This lasted until 1955, where Ngo Dinh Diem, a "strongly anti communist
+politician" <span class="citation"
+data-cites="vietnam-war-history"></span>, became President of the
+Southern part of Vietnam. Due to the cold war and the US hardening
+policies against any Communist states, the currently acting US President
+Eisenhower pledged "firm support to Diem and South Vietnam" <span
+class="citation" data-cites="vietnam-war-history"></span>.</p>
+<p>With the formation of the National Liberation Front in 1960, which
+was meant to be a resistance against Diem at the request of a US report
+team, John F. Kennedy started increasing US Military Aid in South
+Vietnam based on the Domino Theory <span class="citation"
+data-cites="vietnam-war-history"></span>, which assumed that once a
+country falls to communism, many other countries would follow, like a
+chain of dominoes <span class="citation"
+data-cites="cold-war-domino-theory"></span>.</p>
+<p>The situation escalated in 1965 when Lyndon B. Johnson sent US Combat
+Troops to Vietnam.</p>
+<h2 id="the-global-war-on-terror">The Global War on Terror</h2>
+<p>The Global War on Terror began after the Terrorist attack on the
+World Trade Center on the 11th September 2001, George W. Bush, who was
+the acting President at this time, announced that the US was creating a
+plan to locate and stop Terrorists all around the world <span
+class="citation" data-cites="gowt-bushlibrary"></span>. In connection to
+these announcements the US first started a war in 2001 with Afghanistan
+and then in 2003 in Iraq <span class="citation"
+data-cites="gowt-bushlibrary"></span>, these wars are part of the Global
+War on Terror, however the Global War on Terror also describes
+non-violent actions taken against the financing of Terrorist groups. The
+invasion of Iraq began on the 20th March 2003 <span class="citation"
+data-cites="cfr-iraq-war"></span> with US air strikes, the invasion was
+justified with the Global War on Terror and Iraq’s ownership of nuclear,
+biological and chemical weapons. <span class="citation"
+data-cites="britannica-iraq-war"></span>. The first stage of the war
+ended a month after the first air strikes with the downfall of Saddam
+Hussein’s regime on the 1st May 2003 <span class="citation"
+data-cites="cfr-iraq-war"></span>.</p>
+<p>The war however continues with the hunt for Saddam Hussein, who was
+captured on the 14th December 2003 and executed 3 years later on the
+30th December 2006 <span class="citation"
+data-cites="cfr-iraq-war"></span>. During this time the battle in Iraq
+continues after Shiites won the 2005 election <span class="citation"
+data-cites="cfr-iraq-war"></span>. Even though the war went on until
+2011, the Bush Administration admitted on the 24th January 2004 that no
+biological, chemical or nuclear weapons were found in Iraq, as the
+former US weapons inspector David Kay told the congress: "we were almost
+all wrong" <span class="citation"
+data-cites="cnn-david-kay-senate-hearing"></span>.</p>
+<p>This then begs the question, if it was already known that Iraq had no
+weapons of mass destruction in 2004, why did the US continue the war
+until 2011, what are the real reasons for the war?</p>
+<h1 id="the-real-reasons-for-the-wars-and-how-america-hides-them">The
+real reasons for the wars and how America hides them</h1>
+<p>As shown in the first paragraph, the US is not always fully honest
+about their reasons for invading a country or starting wars. So in this
+paragraph I am going to show the multiple reasons America, and other
+countries, go to war or start Invasions.</p>
+<h2 id="big--oil">(Big-) Oil</h2>
+<p>Big Oil is a term that describes the biggest Oil Companies under
+public ownership, these include BP plc, Royal Dutch Shell plc, Exxon
+Mobile Corporation, Chevron Corporation, ENI SpA and Total SA <span
+class="citation" data-cites="financial-dictionary-big-oil"></span>. Due
+to these companies being Government controlled, the Government will set
+regulations or even start Wars, just to benefit their Oil Companies.</p>
+<p>The Wars which are started for the acquirement of Oil are usually
+called "resource wars" <span class="citation"
+data-cites="belfercenter-oil-conflict"></span>, these however are not
+the only wars started due to oil. There is the petro-aggression, which
+is not a war directly started because of oil, but due to the domestic
+isolation which oil can cause, making a country more likely to try out
+potentially controversial foreign policies <span class="citation"
+data-cites="belfercenter-oil-conflict"></span>. Another type is the
+financing of other groups with profits made from oil, like Iran
+financing the Hezbollah through oil profits <span class="citation"
+data-cites="ny-times-lebanon-hezbollah-fuel"></span> and wars started
+over oil market domination, as seen in the US war with Iraq over
+Kuwait <span class="citation"
+data-cites="britannica-persian-gulf-war"></span>.</p>
+<p>However, the existence of oil wars are a very controversial, there
+are people who claim that oil has no cause in wars, while others claim
+that oil is a very important factor in wars. Often these discussions are
+made on the example of the wars in Kuwait, to which the US Secretary of
+Defense Donald Rumsfeld stated that it’s "nonsense to suggest that the
+US invasion of Iraq involved oil in any way" <span class="citation"
+data-cites="stokes_blood_for_oil"></span>. Even among political
+Scientists oil, or even energy in general, is rarely mentioned, the few
+scientists who do focus on the involvement of oil in wars also disagree
+about the importance of oil, one group argues that resource wars play a
+major role in wars, while the other group rejects this claim due to the
+lack of systematic evidence <span class="citation"
+data-cites="fueling-fire-jeff-d"></span>. The main issue with these
+discussions is that people often fail to check the influence of oil in
+the country before the war started, as oil may not be the direct cause
+of the war, but start a chain reaction of other events which eventually
+lead to a war. It is also noteworthy that oil is a very important
+resource and simply cannot be ignored when analyzing international
+security. This can also be seen in the aforementioned discussions about
+the involvement of oil in the Iraq wars, as scientists argue about
+involvement of oil in the war, rather than the preconditions caused by
+oil <span class="citation" data-cites="fueling-fire-jeff-d"></span>.</p>
+<h3 id="resource-wars">Resource Wars</h3>
+<p>A major example of resource wars is the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in
+1990 and the following US Military operation Desert Shield, in which
+Iraq successfully annexed Kuwait and gained control of 20 percent of oil
+reserves <span class="citation"
+data-cites="history-iraq-kuwait"></span>. This is more proof that oil is
+not always the cause of a war, but rather a precondition of war.</p>
+<p>Although the goals of Oil Resource Wars are not always only the
+ownership of more oil, but also the gain of more Control over the
+Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, also known as OPEC,
+which would allow a country to have more control over the worldwide oil
+price, and as a result of this power also cut countries out of oil
+trade.</p>
+<h3 id="oil-market-domination">Oil Market Domination</h3>
+<p>Wars about Oil Market Domination are similar to Resource Wars,
+however they differ in one main point, the wars aren’t for personal gain
+of oil, but rather to make sure that the opposing force has less oil
+Power <span class="citation" data-cites="fueling-fire-jeff-d"></span>.
+The US fears that countries with a big oil power could artificially
+raise the Oil price, which OPEC would have to follow with, allowing the
+country to enrich itself on oil profits.</p>
+<p>Oil Market Domination wars are often a cause of Resource wars, a good
+example is the US operation Desert Shield, which itself started due to a
+fear of Oil Market Domination from Iraq, but was caused by the Iraqi
+invasion of Kuwait, which, as already mentioned, was a Resource War.</p>
+<h2 id="communism">Communism</h2>
+<p>Communism as a cause of war is an interesting topic, the US did not
+start any wars against communism ever since the cold war, yet Communism
+and Socialism are still an important topic in modern foreign policies
+and even internal policies, with the rise of Communism and Socialism
+among Millenials and Gen-Z <span class="citation"
+data-cites="theguardian-genz-capitalism"></span>, it becomes a more
+broadly discussed topic in politics, with the majority of politicians
+not being very happy, as they are a prime target of Communist and
+Anarchist movements.</p>
+<p>As a reaction to this, the US tries to silence any Communist
+politicians or countries, be it through direct wars, secret CIA
+operations or the influence of media to spread false information <span
+class="citation" data-cites="theguardian-anti-communist-usa"></span>.
+Secret CIA operations include assassinations of Communist leaders, like
+the Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, who survived over 600 murder
+attempts from the CIA and ended up dying naturally at the age of 90 in
+Havana on the 25th November 2016 <span class="citation"
+data-cites="cnn-fidel-castro-assassination"></span>.</p>
+<p>The war against communism however is not always violent. During the
+cold war and the Red Scare, the US also made a huge effort to keep
+people away from Communistic believes through state propaganda. This
+propaganda was usually spread through movies, literature, music,
+television and art. It would usually mock the soviet union and communism
+through misinformation. The US Government however did not display it as
+propaganda and insisted that everything shown was factually correct. <a
+href="#section.4">An example of this propaganda can be seen in the
+attachments.</a></p>
+<h2 id="power-in-other-countries">Power in other countries</h2>
+<p>Most wars which involve gaining power in other countries are not
+military wars, but economic wars. The US in this case often sets
+embargoes on countries that do not follow them in their decisions, like
+with Cuba, Venezuela or a lot of countries in the Middle East <span
+class="citation" data-cites="us-treasury-embargoes"></span>.</p>
+<h3 id="cuba">Cuba</h3>
+<p>The US embargo against Cuba started with the Cuban Revolution in
+which Fidel Castro took over the Cuban Government, even though the
+currently acting US President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially recognized
+the new Cuban Government as legitimate, relations rapidly started to
+deteriorate after Fidel Castro began nationalizing more companies and
+started the agrarian reforms, in which the Government broke up large
+landholding and redistributed them to the people who work on that land
+and the state. With each state take-over of privately owned land the US
+embargo rose in strength, up to the point where any trade with Cuba was
+prohibited for US Companies. This embargo also got extended to the point
+where the US threatened any non-US based company with sanctions if they
+were doing trade with Cuba <span class="citation"
+data-cites="cfr-us-cuba-relations"></span>. The US opposition to the
+Cuban government under Fidel Castro even went as far as the CIA
+attempting to assassinate Fidel Castro over 600 times <span
+class="citation"
+data-cites="cnn-fidel-castro-assassination"></span>.</p>
+<h3 id="israel">Israel</h3>
+<p>Israel is a very controversial topic in international politics, which
+also makes it a prime reason for wars. The controversy stems from the
+fact that Israel lies on land stolen from the Palestinian
+population <span class="citation"
+data-cites="aljazeera-israel-illegal-settlement"></span>. During the
+second world war, Palestine was controlled by the British, due to the
+holocaust in Europe a lot of Jewish people immigrated into Palestine,
+under supervision by the British. They formed their own villages, also
+called kibbutzim, and were not interested in forming any Jewish State.
+After the British retreated from Palestine, Zionist groups started
+attacking Palestinians with the goal of starting a Jewish State. The UN
+tried to settle these attacks with the 1947 Partition Plan, which would
+split Palestine into two parts and assign one half to the Zionists.
+Palestine openly expressed their dissatisfaction this plan as it would
+illegally steal part of their country, while the Zionists seemingly
+agreed with it <span class="citation"
+data-cites="aljazeera-israel-illegal-settlement"></span>. After the
+Partition Plan was completed and Palestine was split into Palestine and
+Israel, Zionists started attacking the Palestinian land and claimed it
+for themselves, causing Palestinians to flee into other Arabic countries
+like Jordan or Lebanon <span class="citation"
+data-cites="aljazeera-israel-illegal-settlement"></span>. Even though
+Palestine is an occupied territory, Israel continues to send their
+population into these territories and apply Israeli law, which directly
+violates the fourth Geneva Convention. Despite this, countries still
+acknowledged the new Israeli territory as a legitimate part of
+Israel <span class="citation"
+data-cites="aljazeera-israel-illegal-settlement"></span>.</p>
+<p>With Israel being a country with western ties in the middle east, the
+US had an interest in forming good ties with Israel in order to have a
+proxy in the middle east. This has been the case with the Iran-Israeli
+Proxy conflict, in which Iran threatened to dissolve Israel and give the
+land back to the Palestinian people. And now is a proxy war involving
+Syria, Lebanon, Russia, the United States, the United kingdom and Saudi
+Arabia <span class="citation"
+data-cites="aljazeera-israel-iran-shadow"></span> <span class="citation"
+data-cites="smh-shadow-war-israel-iran"></span> <span class="citation"
+data-cites="lemonde-shadow-war-israel-iran"></span> <span
+class="citation" data-cites="time-shadow-war-israel-iran"></span>.</p>
+<h1 id="conclusion">Conclusion</h1>
+<h2 id="what-to-take-from-this-term-paper">What to take from this Term
+Paper</h2>
+<p>In the end, what to take from this Term Paper is up to the Reader,
+however I hope that this Term Paper cleared up that there are no good
+reasons for War. Even if countries tell us that their War is for the
+"removal of Nazis" or for the "liberation" of a country, it is never the
+truth. Every War always boils down to the gain of power or money,
+although nowadays these things are the same.</p>
+<p>The war for Oil results in a shift of power in OPEC, which allows the
+most powerful country to influence the international Oil price. Due to
+this easy way of gaining a monopoly, any state can abuse their position
+in OPEC very easily.</p>
+<p>The war against Communism has the goal of defeating an idea that goes
+against everything the US stands for. Communism tries to abolish the
+entire concept of a class based society, which would result in the
+Government any rich people would loose their power. It is clear why the
+US government tries everything they can to avoid any Communist movement
+in any country, since they seemingly still believe in the Domino Theory,
+and fear that any communist country that gains a lot of power could
+cause other countries to move towards communism.</p>
+<p>And finally, the attempts of gaining power in countries. This is not
+always very easy, as seen with the example of Cuba, getting power over
+countries can also mean completely blocking any cooperation with
+specific states, in this case setting an embargo on Cuba and threatening
+non US companies to sanction them if they decide to trade with Cuba.
+This gives the US control over every company that is interested in
+having the US as a partner, which usually every company wants. Based on
+this example it becomes clear that wars with the objective of directly
+gaining power in countries does not always mean getting power over the
+country in which the war is happening, but to gain power over other
+countries through this war.</p>
+<h2 id="what-i-learned-from-this-term-paper">What I learned from this
+Term Paper</h2>
+<p>The core information of this was nothing new to me, however the
+extend of what the US does to justify their wars and war crimes was very
+shocking and only increased my critical attitude towards US politics.
+This Term Paper showed me, that countries are able to ignore war crimes
+through and lie to the population in order to make them seem better to
+retract a statement, which also is the reason why I want to retract a
+statement I made in the beginning of this Term Paper, I said that there
+are only "better guys" in wars, not "good" guys, after writing this
+Paper it has become clear to me that even "better guys" do not exist in
+wars. Everyone who participates in any war is a horrible person and it
+does not matter what their political opinion is. They all commit
+genocide towards groups of people and point at the others saying that
+they are the ones violating human rights, while leading a genocide
+against transgender people in their own country and secretly murdering
+children in a state based on stolen land. I have also noticed that
+Imperialism is not dead, as many assume. Imperialism never ended, except
+that now the government knows how to hide their Imperialism and sell it
+to the population as a "Liberation", "removal of Nazis" or "fighting
+terrorist groups". Due to this system of gaining power through money and
+gaining money through power it is only a matter of time until every
+country turns into some sort of fascist, imperialist state.</p>
+<h1 id="attachments">Attachments</h1>
+<h2 id="sec:Propaganda">Anti-Communist propaganda</h2>
+<p><img src="Propaganda/is-this-tomorrow.jpg" alt="image" /> <img
+src="Propaganda/colleges-hire-red-professors.jpg" alt="image" /></p>
+<img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" />
+This Term paper is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0<br />
+<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"
+class="uri">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</a><br />
+The source, including LaTeX and bibliography files can be found at<br />
+<a
+href="https://github.com/axtloss/Term-Paper-America-Involvement-In-Wars"
+class="uri">https://github.com/axtloss/Term-Paper-America-Involvement-In-Wars</a></p>
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