Trump's Genocidal Outbursts Continue the Endless US Holocausts: The Left Chapter w. Michael Laxer
- The Left Chapter
- 5 days ago
- 1 min read
The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer examines the latest, shocking, genocidal outburst from Donald Trump saying a "whole civilization will die tonight" in the horrifying context of the endless holocausts the United States has visited upon the world.
"In “Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire”, David Michael Smith estimates the US has been directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of at least 54 million people in its wars abroad from 1945 to 2020. On Smith’s accounting, once you widen the frame to include what he calls “domestic social murder” and extend the timeline across the full history of the empire, the toll approaches 300 million.
This short century alone, the violence has been apocalyptic. Stephanie Savell of the Costs of War project at Brown University estimates that since 2001 the post-9/11 wars waged by the US and its allies have contributed to at least 4.5–4.7 million deaths (direct and indirect) in post-9/11 war zones. That’s approximately 1.08 human beings killed every three minutes for about 24–25 years."
Far from ending the US forever wars as he promised during the election Trump has continued this sickening "tradition" and now promises to escalate it even further.
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