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@PeterRu My family in Vietnam lived/lives that fugly reality. One of my uncles was blown up in pieces from leftover #USAmilitary #munitions. 3 kids in our Indigenous village are disabled from buried landmine explosions. 36 villagers were blown up by a leftover USA bomb in 1984.

#USAterrorism #BoycottUSA #USATerroristState #WarmongeringMassMurderers

@PeterRu My family in Vietnam lived/lives that fugly reality. One of my uncles was blown up in pieces from leftover #USAmilitary #munitions. 3 kids in our Indigenous village are disabled from buried landmine explosions. 36 villagers were blown up by a leftover USA bomb in 1984.

#USAterrorism #BoycottUSA #USATerroristState #WarmongeringMassMurderers

@PeterRu My family in Vietnam lived/lives that fugly reality. One of my uncles was blown up in pieces from leftover #USAmilitary #munitions. 3 kids in our Indigenous village are disabled from buried landmine explosions. 36 villagers were blown up by a leftover USA bomb in 1984.

#USAterrorism #BoycottUSA #USATerroristState #WarmongeringMassMurderers

@PeterRu My family in Vietnam lived/lives that fugly reality. One of my uncles was blown up in pieces from leftover #USAmilitary #munitions. 3 kids in our Indigenous village are disabled from buried landmine explosions. 36 villagers were blown up by a leftover USA bomb in 1984.

#USAterrorism #BoycottUSA #USATerroristState #WarmongeringMassMurderers

@PeterRu My family in Vietnam lived/lives that fugly reality. One of my uncles was blown up in pieces from leftover #USAmilitary #munitions. 3 kids in our Indigenous village are disabled from buried landmine explosions. 36 villagers were blown up by a leftover USA bomb in 1984.

#USAterrorism #BoycottUSA #USATerroristState #WarmongeringMassMurderers

USA military and laws for a draft...

> A federal district court has ruled that male-only draft registration is unconstitutional. Contrary to popular myth a draft does not decrease the chances or duration or extent of wars.

https://worldbeyondwar.org/repeal/
#WorldBeyondWar #USAdraft #SelectiveService #USAmilitary

> In every poll since the Viet Nam war, reinstatement of the draft is overwhelmingly opposed by the general public, and even more so by veterans...
> Despite a 22% increase in sexual assault reports since 2015, convictions have plummeted by almost 60% in the same timeframe.

https://worldbeyondwar.org/14-points-against-draft-registration/
#WorldBeyondWar #USAdraft #USAmilitary #MilitaryDraft #SexualAssault #USAveterans #VietnamWar #InvasionOfVietnam

The Pentagon: A Global Oil-Protection Service

The most significant expression of this trend has been the transformation of the U.S. military into a global oil-protection service whose primary function is the guarding of overseas energy supplies as well as their global delivery systems (pipelines, tanker ships, and supply routes). This overarching mission was first articulated by President Jimmy Carter in January 1980, when he described the oil flow from the Persian Gulf as a “vital interest” of the United States, and affirmed that this country would employ “any means necessary, including military force” to overcome an attempt by a hostile power to block that flow.

When President Carter issued this edict, quickly dubbed the Carter Doctrine, the United States did not actually possess any forces capable of performing this role in the Gulf. To fill this gap, Carter created a new entity, the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF), an ad hoc assortment of U.S-based forces designated for possible employment in the Middle East. In 1983, President Reagan transformed the RDJTF into the Central Command (Centcom), the name it bears today. Centcom exercises command authority over all U.S. combat forces deployed in the greater Persian Gulf area including Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa.