That sounds different from my vague recollections on the matter
I would have thought Kuwait one of the money lenders backing Iraq in the Iraq-Iran war
I would have thought the Iraq attack on Kuwait later than the Iraq-Iran war by a decade
I would have thought the resolution of the Kuwait attack was american intervention (and a needed one at that) to free Kuwait.
I would have thought the Iraq War followed threats from george bush, bill clinton, george bush to intervene if proof was not given that weapons of mass destruction were no longer in his possession
*nods*
Difficult to get any accuracy but I tend to highball it myself, accounting for Mexico in the south, to the ice-covered far north regions.
Still, over 60 million people were killed in WWII, (6 million Jews were systematically slaughtered in the Holocaust, along with 6 million other nationality/ethnic groups)
The estimates I was referring to was for the Continental US. , and if you check my post, I mentioned it was the Continental US. which ranges from 1 - 5 million. Your 7 - 18 million estimate would be counting Mexico, Central America and Canada. The one estimate made by a person ( the 1 million ) was done by visiting several tribes and estimating the birth rate and the amount of natural means to sustain a human population in those areas. Granted it is still a estimate and could be off. But I feel confident it was under 6 million.
Here's how I see it.
Many parts of the world are very reliant on their alliance with the US to keep the peace. Japan and South Korea, for example, would have some far more serious issues with North Korea if it wasn't for the US threat. Who knows what China and Russia would do if it wasn't for the US.
The fact is that the US has the most powerful military in the world. Between our technology and sheer size of our military, it's the most powerful by quite a margin. The world should be glad that it is the US that has the most powerful military because for the most part we seem to be doing the right thing with it. Are we perfect? No. But it's not like we're trying to conquer other countries. All we really do is try to keep the peace.
IMO our allies should be grateful that we're taking on this burden considering no one else really wants to.
OP, the problem is with the millions of dead that USA has left behind in the middle east. I'd say that UN should be the world police and not one nation.
What the fuck do you even mean when you say you have no control over the past so don't bring it up? "Oh so europe conqured and fucked up this region and pulled out totally fucking up the area leaving it way worse than it was which contributed to today's state of things but just ignore that because it's the past!"
Really, that's mighty unfair considering it was YOUR elected leaders that decided to handle the migrant crisis in the way that they did with open gates. Don't blame us for your leaders handling a shitty situation in a shitty manner. No one except for Europe is the only place where they're having these issues with the migrant crisis because unlike Europe we had sensible leaders that realized we couldn't just let millions of people flood into our countries without a pre-existing system to help manage the flow of migrants and naturalize them.
"You guys have been in wars"
So...the world being under our hegemony has led to less war and less deaths than there ever has been while Europe on the other hand was busy fucking up the world with us helping them. Now it's just cleaning up mostly their and some of our own mess along the way.
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We are the best Nation to have a hegemony under... the UN you mean with Russia and China? pfft please... I rather America be the dominate power in the world. Frankly if it was some European nation with our power I feel they would have tried to expand.
How about the existence of Israel which was mainly established as a response to the Holocaust? That's not Europe's fault? How convenient.
P.S.
I feel like I should make this clear, I'm not pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, but I do recognize the existence of Israel in the middle east as an immense agitating factor in the region.
The World in a nutshell
Evil Dictator killing citizens and the US does something to stop them - "Evil warmongering Americans!"
Evil Dictator killing citizens and the US does nothing to stop them - "Why want America do something about this!?"
I didn't say it wasn't Europes fault. It's there now and we back them, not much that can be done about that. We need allies in the middle east and the Kurds are too fractured.
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Serioulsy? So you mean redrawing maps which led to wars in the middle east, which the Europeans did, which led to radacalization over time, was all our fault too? I mean the issues we are dealing with stem directly from the actions of European nations.