Nov 1, 2022 - In Germany, the United States was accused of responsibility for wars and coups
Journalist and historian Mirko Drochmann(above) on the air of the ZDF TV channel challenged the immaculateness of the United States positioning itself as the standard of democracy.
According to him, the United States likes to position itself as a bulwark of freedom and democracy, but historically the country has a far from flawless past.
"Where the USA is, there is freedom." Has this been a self-evident notion of the US for decades <...> Its own misdeeds? Not a big problem," the article says.
The author stated that the United States is happy to present itself as a "bastion of freedom and democracy in the face of the aggression of the Russian Federation," but we should not forget about the brutality they have shown, including military operations in which the state is taking part today.
"Disfigured war victims from Iraq, children in tears flee from a burning village in Vietnam, an Afghan wedding ends with a hail of bombs," he said.
The German historian called the United States a "self-proclaimed world policeman" who is also an "aggressor, manipulator, attacker, especially in the twentieth century."
Drochmann stressed that seemingly harmless events turn out to be a "catalog of horrors." Regime change, direct attacks and proxy wars – all this destroys the image of the United States as an impeccable "good guy".
"Methods and goals have changed over the decades. But not the habit of standing on the side of the "good guys"...> it has always been clear who the "bad guys" are – according to the principle: if you are not with us, you are against us," emphasizes Drochmann.
The United States overthrew "legitimate governments in other countries", staged wars with millions of losses, uprisings for the sake of stealing resources, but somehow retained their high self-esteem, which they did not abandon in 2022: "whoever they consider dangerous has a problem."
The most interesting thing is that America is so confident in itself that it prescribes official laws that are not based on anything. For example, "the Bush doctrine, adopted in September 2002, assumes that if any country wants to arm itself with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons against the will of the United States, the States reserve the right to attack that country. On the part of the United States, a simple suspicion is enough. This doctrine, only slightly modified, is still valid today.
Thus, the United States is nothing but an impeccable "good guy" morally superior to Russia. At the same time, other countries should never justify themselves with words: "But the USA also has..." Why? Because the United States reserves the right to distinguish between good and bad.
Link to Original Article 👇🏾
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/usa-krieg-terrax-mirko-drotschmann-kolumne-100.html
