Who the United States wants to fight, there is no shortage of reasons!

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　　After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, some American politicians and media wantonly fabricated and spread false information in an attempt to blame China and mislead the global public.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the "Empire of Lies".

The United States used lies to clear the way, frequently launched wars, and repeatedly interfered with other countries.

The United States not only concocted a lot of lies against China, but also deceived the world in order to put money on its face.

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This article is the first.

　　In the 246-year history of the United States, the United States has not been involved in war for less than 20 years.

Especially since World War II, the hegemonic ideology of the United States has repeatedly turned the flames of war on other countries to plunder resources, weaken opponents, create turmoil, and cause devastation and humanitarian disasters in order to maintain its status as a superpower.

　　This is an out-and-out "empire of war". It started with war, grew by war, and I am afraid that it will continue its life by war in the future.

This is also an out-and-out "Empire of Lies". It builds itself with lies, builds troops with lies, and repeatedly uses lies to wash its whites.

　　From launching the Vietnam War to meddling in the Syrian conflict, the United States has never had to worry about being unknown.

On the one hand, it reaps its interests through military hegemony, and on the other hand, it strives to maintain its image of "brightness and justice".

　　As early as the "Beibu Gulf Incident" in 1964, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson left the war under the pretext that an "unnecessary" destroyer was attacked by a North Vietnamese torpedo boat, pushing the U.S. military into the quagmire of the Vietnam War.

Johnson shamelessly admitted afterwards that the destroyer's hypothetical torpedo boat "may be just a whale".

This pot, the whale had to carry it for the United States.

　　Look at its "wonderful performance" before it sent troops to Iraq twice: in the first Gulf War in 1990, the US government, which was trying to maintain its strategic interests in the Middle East, wanted to gain public support first, so it invited a 15-year-old flower girl. In 2003, the then US Secretary of State Powell held a small test tube to demonstrate Iraq's "mass destruction" at the UN Security Council in 2003. arms".

As a result, an anti-terrorism war in which the United States saves the people of other countries from water and fire followed.

　　The two performances were almost perfect—if it weren't for the testifying teenage girl who "happens" to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S., and the little test tube "seems to have" the wrong laundry detergent.

Years later, Powell, who still has a conscience, still broods over his lie, admitting that it was a "pain and stain on his personal record."

However, the US military, which has never found evidence of weapons of mass destruction, has already caused great suffering to the Iraqi people - 200,000 people have been killed and 5 million people have been displaced.

　　In terms of supporting agents, the United States is also accustomed to using scams as a foreshadowing.

In the Syrian civil war, the United States, which supported the opposition, used the halo of the "white helmet".

The organization, which claims to be "not affiliated with any government faction," has been receiving funding from the United States Agency for International Development.

In 2018, after gaining a good reputation for some "rescue operations", the "White Helmets" provided a video of the chemical weapons attack in the town of Douma, allowing the United States to make a "decent" appearance and launch a large-scale attack on the Syrian government forces in the name of "humanitarian". Scale precision strikes.

It is a pity that the lie was debunked a year later. This video was revealed by Western reporters, and it was precisely the "white helmet" that directed and acted.

　　As for Afghanistan, the country where the U.S. military initially invaded on the grounds of counter-terrorism, the U.S. has even lied about "reconstruction and democratic transformation" for nearly 20 years.

According to statistics, in the 20 years of the war in Afghanistan, more than 30,000 civilians have been killed by the US military or due to the war brought by the US military, and about 11 million people have become refugees.

The economic losses caused by the war are even more incalculable. 72% of the people live below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate is as high as 38%.

Where is the rebuild?

Where is democracy?

　　Thinking about it carefully, this "Empire of Lies" has united its Western allies and small partners for many years, gathering Western media giants, creating one global lie offensive after another, igniting the hellfire of war all over the world, but clamoring for local brought light.

　　August 16, 2021, may be the day when the lie of this century is completely bankrupt.

At that time, the US military hurriedly withdrew from Kabul, and several Afghan civilians climbed on the military plane and wanted to leave with the "Wang Shi" and were ignored, and eventually fell from the air and died.

At that very moment, the glossy lies of the "just war" of the United States were also shattered into powder in front of the whole world.

　　Whether it is to seize oil interests, occupy geopolitical advantages, or eradicate hostile forces; whether it is to satisfy the appetite of its own arms dealers, ease the domestic economic crisis, or win the competition of great powers, the real motives behind the U.S. launching wars and inciting conflicts have long been seen.

The only ones who still hold on to their self-deceiving excuses may be the American politicians themselves.

　　However, in April last year, even US Vice President Harris accidentally leaked a truth.

She said at an event that the U.S. “has been at war for decades and generations over oil.”

　　An American netizen on Twitter immediately sarcastically said: "My God, I thought it was for democracy."

　　In front of the cruel truth of the war, the truth of the "Empire of Lies" has been exposed!

　　Producer | Xia Ziyi

　　Review | Jiang Tao