American military adventures since the end of WWII

Came across this list of American invasions that have occurred since the end of World War II. It’s not a complete list since I can think of a couple of others, and to give Vietnam a single line is to diminish its significance. Personally, I was happy with the anti-communist efforts, although that may be a view I developed perhaps post-1975. But it is an amazing list.

1948 PHILIPPINES – CIA directs war against Huk Rebellion.
1950 PUERTO RICO – Independence rebellion crushed in Ponce.
1951 KOREA – USA and South Korea fight China and North Korea to stalemate.
1953 IRAN – CIA overthrows democracy deposes President Mossadegh, installs Shah.
1954 GUATEMALA – CIA directs exile invasion.
1958 LEBANON – US Marine occupation against rebels.
1960 VIETNAM – Fought South Vietnam revolt and North Vietnam; 1-2 million killed.
1961 CUBA – CIA-directed exile invasion fails.
1962 CUBA – Naval blockade during missile crisis; near-war with USSR.
1964 PANAMA – Panamanians shot by US troops for urging canal’s return.
1965 INDONESIA – Million people killed in CIA-assisted army coup.
1965 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – US Marines land during election campaign.
1966 GUATEMALA – Green Berets intervene against rebels.
1969 CAMBODIA – Up to 2 million killed in decade of US bombing, starvation and political chaos.
1970 OMAN – USA directs Iranian marine invasion.
1971 LAOS – USA directs South Vietnamese invasion; carpet-bombs countryside.
1973 CHILE – CIA-backed coup ousts elected President Allende, installs Augusto Pinochet.
1975 CAMBODIA – US troops captured ship, 28 die in helicopter crash.
1976 ANGOLA – CIA assists South African-backed rebels.
1981 LIBYA – Two Libyan jets shot down in manoeuvres.
1981 EL SALVADOR – Overflights aid anti-rebel war, soldiers briefly involved in hostage clash.
1981 NICARAGUA – CIA directs exile (Contra) invasions, plants mines in Managua Harbour.
1982 LEBANON – US Marines expel PLO and back Phalangists, US Navy bombs and shells.
1983 GRENADA – US invasion deposes elected Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.
1984 IRAN – Two Iranian jets shot down over Persian Gulf.
1986 LIBYA – Air strikes to topple nationalist government.
1987 IRAN – US intervenes on side of Iraq in war.
1989 LIBYA – Two Libyan jets shot down.
1989 VIRGIN ISLANDS – St Croix Black unrest after storm.
1989 PHILIPPINES – Air cover provided for government against coup.
1989 PANAMA – Nationalist government ousted by 27,000 soldiers. More than 2000 people killed.
1990 IRAQ – More than 200,000 people killed in invasion of Iraq and Kuwait.
1992 SOMALIA – US-led UN occupation during civil war; raids against one Mogadishu faction.
1992 YUGOSLAVIA – NATO blockade of Serbia and Montenegro.
1993 BOSNIA – No-fly zone patrolled in civil war; USA downed jets, bombed Serbs.
1994 HAITI – Blockade against military government; troops restore President Aristide to office.
1995 CROATIA – Krajina Serb airfields attacked by USA before Croatian offensive.
1998 SUDAN – US attack on pharmaceutical plant alleged to be ‘terrorist’ nerve gas plant.
1998 AFGHANISTAN – Missile attack on former CIA training camps used by Islamic fundamentalist groups.
1998 IRAQ – Four days of intensive air strikes after weapons inspectors allege Iraqi obstructions.
1999 YUGOSLAVIA – Heavy NATO air strikes after Serbia declines to withdraw from Kosovo.
2001 AFGHANISTAN – US attack and invasion, deposes government and installs US puppet President Karzai.
2003 IRAQ – US attack and invasion, deposes President Saddam Hussein.
2007 IRAN – US Congress allocates $400 million to overthrow elected government, mounts covert infiltration.
2011 LIBYA – USA and allies attack Gaddafi government assets in civil war using cruise missiles.

And while the present American administration is hopefully an anomaly, for we in the West American power remains indispensable. Nevertheless, I also think this is undeniably true: Joe Biden ‘in bed’ with Chinese Communist Party.

When the New York Post published its blockbuster reports on the evidence from the laptop just three weeks before the 2020 election – indicating Joe Biden not only had knowledge of his son’s business dealings, contrary to his claims, but also profited from them – the CEO of the company formed to deal with CEFC China Energy, Tony Bobulinski, came forward.

Bobulinski, Devine said, “verified, corroborated the material that we had published and had a whole slew of his own emails and documents and WhatsApp messages with Hunter Biden referencing Joe Biden.”

“And Tony Bobulinski had also met with Joe Biden twice when the former vice president was vetting him to be the CEO of this new joint venture with a Chinese energy company,” Devine noted.

I don’t think I ever thought any politician ever did what they did out of pure altruism, but the corruption that is evident at every turn across most of the West at the present time is astounding.

Alfred Adler

I have had a long-time interest in psychology – even having studied it at university as part of my undergraduate degree. But Freud I have never found made much sense and Jung does seem to go off in odd directions of his own. It is Alfred Adler that I have found the most compatible with my own way of thinking.

I came across this which has only made me appreciate Adler even further: Alfred Adler Quotes That Will Make You Reflect. This is what it says about Adler himself:

Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.

Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler are all giants in the world of psychology.

Adler was one of the original core members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, which was led by Freud. His ideas were counter to Freud’s, and he split from the group and proposed an “individual psychology” based on his own original theories. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority, the inferiority complex, is recognized as an isolating element which plays a key role in personality development.

Adlerian psychology enjoys a broad base of support in Europe and the United States, and presents simple and straightforward answers to the philosophical question: How can one be happy?

I must admit, I didn’t even know of Alfred Adler or Adlerian psychology until I came across the book “The Courage To Be Disliked” by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. It’s an excellent book and a great way to learn about the principles of Adlerian psychology in order to live a happy life.

Anyway, go to the quotes of which this one particularly stood out for me:

“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”

The other 39 are amazingly insightful as well. Oh well, let me mention one more.

“What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure… There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.”

There are now the other 38 for you to investigate yourself.

In case you have been wondering about Novavax


I have been looking everywhere for a medical assessment of Novavax which is the vaxxine that is more traditional and does not rely on mRNA molecules to produce whatever effects it supposedly produces. I have now been sent this for which I am extremely grateful.

This is its title, Novavax – hope or hype? but as a hint of what is to come, this is the sub-head: “Spoiler alert: it’s not what you were sold.” You can read the whole thing at the link. It’s quite detailed, and the writer seems knowledgable, but as with so much you will have to decide for yourself how much any of this can be trusted. This is how the post ends:

Even if adverse reactions to the Novavax vaccine are rarer than to the AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna shots, any risk at all is, in my opinion, a completely unacceptable price to pay for a product that offers no clinically meaningful benefit to individuals nor any social benefit.

So, don’t bother inviting me to join your Novastan cult. I’m staying in the control group.

And if there are other assessments out there that you know of, please note them in the comments. 

Further evidence of how mad the world has become