/pol/ - Politically Incorrect

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The Swedish government allowed bad people inside of Sweden - one of them murdered Ebba Åkerlund and others in Stockholm in 2017.

If the Swedish government allows US military forces inside of Sweden, it is very likely that US military forces will murder Swedes.

Further, US military forces inside of Sweden will treat Sweden like a toxic landfill and poison the Swedish environment and Swedish people - the same way the US military poisons Americans and others that live near US military bases.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/16/military-defense-overseas-bases-united-states-force-posture/

Overseas bases can indeed reassure allies, but in some cases, this strategy may work too well and risks making allies complacent in their own defense postures, content to free-ride off the United States’ largesse with little incentive to spend more on their own capabilities.

A U.S. military presence can stoke resentment among local populations and their leaders, alienating the allies that bases were intended to reassure. Labor violations, criminal conduct by U.S. soldiers, and violations of sovereignty that occur at or near U.S. military bases can jeopardize delicate diplomatic relationships and fuel anti-U.S. movements among locals.

Osama bin Laden famously cited the presence of U.S. troops on foreign soil as one motivation for the 9/11 attacks. In November 2002, he wrote, “Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them.”

https://www.unz.com/article/the-us-military-excuses-an-anti-white-massacre/

Members of the 24th Infantry were guilty of the racially-motivated murder of 15 white Houstonians, seven of whom were civilians. The US troops were not trying to quell a race riot; they were the race riot.

Sergeant Henry led over 100 armed soldiers toward downtown Houston by way of Brunner Avenue and San Felipe Street and into the Fourth Ward. In their two-hour march on the city, the Blacks killed fifteen Whites, including four policemen, and seriously wounded twelve others, one of whom, a policeman, subsequently died. Four Black soldiers also died. Two were accidentally shot by their own men, one in camp and the other on San Felipe Street.

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/08/afghanistan-iraq-generals-soldiers-disciplined-911/

Austin congratulated the Afghan military for having “retaken and reestablished security in key areas, such as Kunduz.” He did not mention that the battle for Kunduz involved a U.S. aircraft attacking a hospital and killing 42 civilians — doctors, nurses, patients. It was the kind of civilian slaughter that typified U.S. military operations. Austin and an entire generation of generals did their best to avoid mentioning these inconvenient details, denying them unless they were confronted with irrefutable evidence, and then doing little in the aftermath to prevent these atrocities from reoccurring.

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/01/war-on-terror-deaths-cost/

The U.S.-led global war on terror killed nearly 1 million people globally and cost more than $8 trillion since it began two decades ago. These staggering figures come from a landmark report issued Wednesday by Brown University’s Costs of War Project, an ongoing research effort to document the economic and human impact of post-9/11 military operations.

Of those killed, 387,000 are categorized as civilians, 207,000 as members of national military and police forces, and a further 301,000 as opposition fighters killed by U.S.-led coalition troops and their allies. The report also found that around 15,000 U.S. military service members and contractors were killed in the wars, along with a similar number of allied Western troops deployed to the conflicts and several hundred journalists and humanitarian aid workers.

The death toll calculated by the Costs of War Project focuses only on deaths directly caused by violence during the global war on terror and does not include “indirect deaths, namely those caused by loss of access to food, water, and/or infrastructure, war-related disease” that have resulted from the conflicts. The report’s footnotes also state that “some of the people classified as opposition fighters may actually have been civilians as well, since there are political incentives to classify the dead as militants rather than civilians” — a caveat that dovetails with the U.S. government’s own confessed practice of labeling any “military-age males” killed in its operations as combatants unless proved otherwise.

The Costs of War Project report states that its findings about deaths in the wars are conservative, leaving many still uncounted. Although nearly 1 million people were killed since the global war on terror began, even that staggering figure is, in the words of Crawford, the project co-director, “likely a vast undercount of the true toll these wars have taken on human life.”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_pit

A burn pit is an area of a United States military base in which waste is disposed of by burning.

According to the United States Army field manual, there are four other ways outside of burn pits to dispose of solid waste: incinerators, burial, landfills, and tactical burial.

The waste burned using burn pits included chemicals, paints, medical waste, human waste, metal and aluminum products, electronic waste, munitions (including unexploded ordnance), petroleum products, lubricants, plastics, rubber, wood, and food waste. A typical burn pit uses jet fuel (usually JP-8) as the accelerant.

https://grist.org/health/military-burn-pit-health-effects-veterans-overseas-domestic/

How the U.S. military’s toxic burn pits are poisoning Americans — overseas and at home

The burn pit sprawled across nearly 10 acres of Joint Base Balad, a U.S. air base 50 miles north of Baghdad. Plumes of noxious black smoke rose from the pile, which contained a long list of detritus from the base’s daily operations: Styrofoam containers from the dining hall, batteries, metals, plastics, paints, petroleum products, medical waste, amputated limbs, sewage, discarded food, ammunition, and more — all of it doused in jet fuel and kept smoldering 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Department of Defense currently operates 38 toxic burn sites in the U.S., mostly in low-income, rural communities. At these sites, the military collects excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions, including bullets, missiles, mines, and the bulk explosive and flammable materials used to manufacture them, and destroys them by adding diesel and lighting them on fire, or by blowing them up. Last fiscal year, the Department of Defense destroyed 32.7 million pounds of explosive hazardous waste on U.S. soil using these methods, known as open burning and open detonation.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/13/pfas-pollution-us-military-bases-forever-chemicals

Plumes of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” flowing from at least 245 US military bases are contaminating or threatening to pollute drinking water for nearby communities, and hundreds more are likely at risk across America, a new Department of Defense report finds.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-18-mn-96-story.html

The United States’ far-flung network of overseas military bases, operating far outside the reach of American environmental regulation, left a quagmire of chemical contamination all around the globe.

For years, the brook that runs through Rohl just beyond the runways of Bitburg Air Base was a dumping ground for unwanted jet fuel, chemical solvents and firefighting chemicals.

US military installations polluted the drinking water of the Pacific island of Guam, poured tons of toxic chemicals into Subic Bay in the Philippines, leaked carcinogens into the water source of a German spa, spewed tons of sulfurous coal smoke into the skies of Central Europe and pumped millions of gallons of raw sewage into the oceans.

As the world’s most extensive industrial enterprise, the US military generates huge quantities of hazardous wastes--used oils and solvents, paint sludges, plating residues, heavy metals, asbestos, cyanide, PCBs, battery acid, pesticides, herbicides and virtually every other toxic substance known to man.

The Pentagon also creates such special classes of lethal byproducts as high-level radioactive wastes from atomic weapons plants, high explosive powder, outdated chemical weapons, rocket fuels and ordnance practice ranges full of unexploded bullets, bombs and artillery shells.

While there is no systematic effort under way to determine how badly polluted America’s overseas bases are, the US Army--without even looking formally--identified 300 contaminated sites in West Germany alone. Of the total, 30 are on bases slated for closure and 25 are currently deemed serious enough to require expensive long-term remedies.

The US Air Force acknowledged that it polluted soil, streams or ground water at every one of its airfields in Europe.

The US Navy says it does not know the extent of contamination at its many overseas bases because it has neither money nor a legal requirement to study the problem. The US Navy’s senior environmental officer conceded that the service is aware of a number of polluted sites worldwide but refused to identify them because, he said, it would create “problems with host nations.”

In theory, the American armed services abroad follow US or host nation environmental law, whichever is stricter. In practice, they follow neither because US regulation does not reach overseas while military installations are generally exempted from host nation laws under basing agreements, said Rep. Richard Ray (D-Ga.), chairman of a House Armed Services Committee panel that monitors military environmental practices.

In response to requests by The Times under the US Freedom of Information Act for data on contamination at specific foreign bases, the US Air Force said it could not meet the law’s legal deadline and would provide some information at an unspecified future date. The US Navy did not respond at all.

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> killed in its operations as combatants unless proved otherwise.
Hmmm i wonder which particular ethnostste in middleeast coined this strat from its now dismounted technically state in 90s and its shamelesly using it to this day