Ideological chaos and the death of dissent

THE ideological shifts since the Soviet-Afghan War in 1979, with covert USA CIA involvement, through to the invasion of Granada in 1983, the Gulf War in 1990, the US involvement in the 1999 Kosovo war, the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 based on false information that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, as well as the US “War on Terror” launched by President Bush in 2011, and its involvement in the overthrow of the Libyan government in 2011, it is clear that the United States of America has a long history of using war for regime change and political destabilisation.

- LORENZO A DAVIDS

The Cold War between the traditionally referred to “Capitalist West” and the “Communist Eastern Bloc” became a pretext for the many US wars waged to scare the world and test its weapons industry's products.

The outcome of the US's pseudo ‘global policeman’ role has not resulted in a safer world but in a series of devastating consequences for the rest of the world. Russia, seeing its enemy parading its war prowess on the global stage, did a copy and paste and began with invasions in Afghanistan, Crimea, and, more recently, Ukraine. These invasions and destabilisations became a proxy war between the two countries, fought by each invading or overthrowing other, less war-prepared nations.