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I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.According to a recent global survey, the United States is perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace today. Its unrivalled war machine, out of control surveillance programme, decades-long record of attacking other nations, and its use of drones to carry out extrajudicial killings, lend credence to the charge that America is the world's number one war monger. It has not always been so. Before the Second World War the United States was reluctant to intervene militarily overseas, and no American troops were stationed in any foreign country.
Martin Luther King
"Because of the history between the Russians and the Chechen people who splintered to form the Caucasus Emirate, Sochi is a prime target for terrorism," said Woo, who has advanced insurance modelling of catastrophes, including designing a model for terrorism risk. (International Business Times)
Comment: While the U.S. was intervening militarily overseas as early as the mid-19th century when it conquered northern Mexico and slaughtered half a million Filippinos, it does seem to have become hyper-aggressive as a result of WW2 - Project Paperclip, the National Security Act, the Bomb, the CIA, the NSA, the Pentagon, etc. - during which psychopaths like the Dulles brothers selected the most psychopathic Nazis to bring across the Atlantic and institute 'The Beast' that America has become.
Having said that, there is reason to be suspicious of the claim that the US was forced to enter WW2. There is evidence that the attack on Pearl Harbor was foreseen and 'allowed' to happen to provide justification for a US entry into the war. The statement in the above article that "the United States had been forced, by Hitler and Hirohito, into wars in Europe and Asia in which it did not wish to be involved" runs counter to the fact that wars are very profitable for major world powers, and provide a means to secure territory and therefore resources, overseas. When looked at objectively, there is little to dissuade the ruling elite of any major world nation from entering or starting a war, and much to encourage them. The fact that millions of citizens may die, is of little concern, as the 'elite's of major world nations in modern history are, almost invariably, psychopaths, who are unable to empathise with or care about the suffering of other people.