1846 - President Polk deliberately placed US soldiers on the border to provoke Mexico and initiate the Mexican/American War.
❌ Dead US soldiers: ~15,000
1898 - President McKinley falsely claimed that the USS Maine was destroyed by Spanish saboteurs, in order to initiate the Spanish/American War. (It was later discovered that the Maine was sunk due to an internal fire)
❌ Dead US soldiers: ~2,000
1915 - President Wilson colludes with Prime Minister Asquith to load a civilian ship (The Lusitania) with 3 million rounds of military ammunition and sail it into German occupied waters, in order to join Europe's "Great War". (WW1)
❌ Dead US soldiers: ~110,000
1962 - The Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed that the military murder US citizens, blame Cuba, and initiate the Cuban/American War. (Operation Northwoods. Link below.) President Kennedy refused... and was assassinated in 1963. Fortunately, the generals never got their war.
❌ Dead US soldiers: 0
❌ Dead US presidents: 1
1964 - President Johnson falsely claimed that the USS Maddox was torpedoed by the North Vietnamese Navy, in order to join the Vietnam War.
❌ Dead US soldiers: ~58,000
2001 - Saudi Arabian nationals bombed the World Trade Center, and in response the US declared war on Afghanistan nationals. This became the longest war in US history, finally ending in 2021.
❌ Dead US soldiers: ~2000 (plus ~30,000 suicides)
2003 - President Bush claimed that Iraq had WMD, and created the officially-sanctioned conspiracy theory that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, in order to initiate the US/Iraq war.
❌ Dead US soldiers: ~8000 (plus above 30k)
Remember this the next time the US government tells you why your sons and daughters should go die somewhere.
Remember that it has a history of compulsively deceiving their citizens in to justify their wars.
Remember that, as they are trying to lie their way into war with Russia today. (Who bombed Nordstream?)
Remember 9/11, and the war that never needed to happen.
Remember the 1,000s dead who never needed to die.
Remember.
Never forget.
PS - Check out the book "War Is a Racket" by Major General Smedley Butler while you're at it. He brings the receipts.
PPS - Check out the poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. It's tragically beautiful.