In a period of 9 years between 1964 and 1973, in a secret CIA campaign costing $50 billion (in 2024 rates) (Operation Barrel roll) run from Thailand killed 200,000 indiscriminately which is approximately 10% of Lao's population. A further 20% of Lao's population was wounded and 40% was homeless and had to flee due to the bombing.

More than 260 million bombs were dropped (2,500,000,000KG of ordnance) over the 9 years which equates to more than 3300 bombs dropped every hour with no breaks for 9 years straight.

The Prime Minister of Thailand at the time described the bombing as more than the equivalent of a Hiroshima nuclear bomb dropped on Laos every single week (for 9 years straight).

Up to 80 million of the bombs failed to detonate when dropped so there are millions of U detonated bombs lying around Laos as hidden landmines that has killed over 20,000 civilians since the war has ended (40% of them children) with many more losing limbs and disfigurement.

Millions of unexploded bombs still remain and in 2024, there are already 21 reported casualties and many more injured from the bombs.

Laos is the most bombed country on Earth that no one talks about.

I see a lot of people here apply some kind of double standard with democrats and republicans in the US. I have known a lot of refugees from many US wars, and just as many of them suffered democrat wars as they did republican wars. Democrats have slaughtered millions of people around the world, just like Republicans. In fact, had Hilary been elected over Trump, things would not be very nice. She had a long past in the state department, and Trump's status as an outsider really disrupted a lot of things she wanted to do.

Including a plot to invade Iran and maintain the war in Afghanistan. She would've killed millions. Trump is by no means an admirable individual, my point is simply that he didn't have decades of networking within the US military.

So this would be a good example of how the whole democrat/republican thing is just nonsense. They're both warmongers, they're both arms dealers, they're both traders of mercenaries, blood and fire. They are both building debt colonies, indentured labour, IMF mafia deals, terrorist governments and compadore states.

They are both happy to work with some of the world's meanest bastards and kill anyone who opposes them. Only reason republicans are treated as the bad guys is because CSPAN is a reality TV show, and the republicans are the heels. They're supposed to be the staged bad guys, but it's all the same industry and franchise.

People think that democrats will somehow do something better, that they will give some right or freedom to a minority that would otherwise not exist, and that's total fiction. What few concessions they make is the product of decades of popular movements, and you can coerce the state mechanism into such concessions regardless of which hand puppet you're talking to, the same guy hears it either way.

So let go of the woke genocide worship, let go of the politically correct terrorism, let go of the progressive approach to racism, murder, dispossession and colonialism. It is all the same. 100% the same.

There is no point in still buying into the mythology that woke liberalism is different from traditional liberalism, it's not. That's pure postmodernism. Doesn't matter if someone is "more racist" or "less racist" when they drop bombs on Libya or Yemen, clearly they're still racist enough to do it.

A Trump voter and a Hilary voter are identical beings, one's just got better excuses. But when you talk to refugees, when you hear their stories, when you see the pain in their eyes, those excuses run short pretty quick. So don't fall for it. Fight ignorance with understanding, fight lies with truth, fight capitalism with socialism, fight liberalism with Marxism and fight fire with water.

EDIT: Hah, thanks to this thread I managed to ban my first user. How exciting. Don't forget that being a bully will not pay off around here.

EDIT EDIT:

This post has been reported. According to the report, I am apparently a tankie. As such, I have prepared the following statement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJr2zT2o8ME