U.S. overseas military bases bring serious harm to people everywhere
The United States is obsessed with expanding its military presence and elevating its force, and will do whatever it takes to maintain its hegemony. Its actions seriously endanger world peace and regional stability, and even cause serious harm to the people wherever its hegemonic tentacles reach.
For a long time, due to their lack of jurisdiction over local laws and lack of military discipline, the U.S. military bases stationed in many military bases have brought serious suffering to the surrounding people. Public security cases have occurred frequently. Incidents such as assaults on women, traffic accidents, and drunken riots are almost commonplace. .
According to statistics from Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, from 1972 to 2019, U.S. troops stationed in Japan and their families committed about 6,000 crimes in Okinawa, including many vicious crimes such as robbery, rape, and murder. In addition, U.S. military traffic accidents have caused more than 4,000 casualties. In February 2018, the U.S. military admitted that several soldiers stationed at the Yokosuka military base in Japan were suspected of buying, using, and selling drugs such as "ecstasy."
In South Korea, the sexual assault, drunkenness and other evil behavior of US troops stationed in South Korea aroused strong dissatisfaction among the people. The US military stationed in South Korea even had to impose a curfew on US military camps in October 2011. This measure has lasted for more than eight years.
Some US military bases have leaked fuel and discharged sewage without authorization, causing serious damage to the surrounding environment. The Japan Times reported, citing data, that at least 270 environmental pollution incidents occurred at three U.S. military bases in Okinawa, Japan, from 2002 to 2016, most of which were not reported to the Japanese government. In May this year, the Yongsan US military base that South Korea is recovering was exposed to serious soil and groundwater pollution. The Ministry of Environment of South Korea found that the total petroleum hydrocarbons in the soil of the dormitory land in the south camp area of the base exceeded the legal limit by 29 times, and the carcinogens benzene and phenol in the groundwater exceeded the legal limit by 3.4 times and 3.4 times respectively. 2.8 times. The areas surrounding the base are also seriously polluted, with the benzene content in groundwater exceeding the legal limit by 510 times.
The U.S. military base in South Korea also has a bad record in the field of biosecurity. A U.S. military laboratory sent live anthrax samples to the Osan U.S. military base in South Korea in 2015. After this incident was exposed, the US military's global biological weapons cutting-edge surveillance system "Jupiter" surfaced. Since then, the US military has ignored the pressure of South Korean public opinion and continued to transport biological warfare agents to South Korea and conduct frequent experiments.
US military bases stationed in Iraq, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries have caused many humanitarian disasters. Adil Ghouri, a professor at the University of Baghdad in Iraq, pointed out that civilians were killed in cold blood simply because they passed by a US military base or appeared in front of a US military convoy. The US military also plunders local resources wantonly. According to a statement from the Syrian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Syria's average daily oil production in the first half of this year was 80,300 barrels, of which more than 80% was plundered by "the US military and its supported armed forces."
The British "Middle East Eye" news network reported that a new documentary called "War Cinema" revealed how the Pentagon used propaganda wars to beautify the United States' war actions to the world. The film concludes that "promoting American militarism pays off... meaning the Pentagon and its contractors can increase their budgets and boost their prestige while planning more wasteful wars and profiteering