We all know that the US has been killing and repressing peoples and nations for a very long time. If it isn’t bombing and killing, it’s at the UN trying to threaten and scare people, and force sanctions on all those who don’t want to take US orders.
But recently, the US has taken up a new disgusting habit: breaking agreements.
This is actually an old habit, dating back to the US violations of treaties it made with the Native Americans.
Since Trump came into office, the US has been on an agreement-breaking spree.
Let’s review past and recent agreements the US decided to break and leave.
1. In 2002, George W. Bush announced the US withdrawal from the ABM treaty signed with the Soviet Union in 1972. The US withdrew from it in order to start working on their anti-missile shield in E. Europe. When Russians complained, they were told that this is not being done against them, but as a security measure against Iran’s missiles. Russia government stated that if this was true, why withdraw from the agreement with Russia, and why not jointly use a Russian anti-missile complex in Azerbaijan, which is close to Iran? The US ignored the offer, and gave no answer. The US lied when it stated that the ABM bases aren’t aimed at Russia. Also, Iran signed the JCPOA agreement in 2015, so US claiming a nuclear threat from Iran is no longer credible. From the events of the last 3 or so years, we can see that it was about Russia all along. As a last ditch attempt to find any sort of pretext, the US stated that it signed the agreement with the Soviet Union, not Russian Federation, so therefore the treaty is no longer valid. We can all imagine the fits at the UN if Russia was to use such a lame and self-serving excuse to withdraw from a landmark nuclear arms control treaty.
2. In 2003, the Bush regime attacked Iraq based on accusations that it is producing and hiding weapons of mass destruction. Up to that point, Iraq has followed all UN resolutions and got rid of its biological and chemical weapon stockpiles. In fact, Iraq was WMD-free since the mid 1990s. Yet the US invaded the country. Afterwards, no WMDs were found, and the US pretext for invasion turned out to be false. Iraq fulfilled its end of the agreement, but the US didn’t.
3. In 2005, George W. Bush also broke the agreement on North Korea’s nuclear disarmament with his ‘axis of evil’ speech, threatened North Korean with military action, and issued unfair demands on North Korea that were outside of the agreement. Up until then, North Korea was willing to disarm. This idiotic behavior by the US regime is directly responsible for the development and testing of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles by North Korea. The US knows that such behavior toward North Korea can only cause problems, hence why the question must be asked: what does the US really want in Korea? Peace doesn’t seem to be the priority.
4. During the regime of George W. Bush, the US managed to pressure Libya’s Leader, Muammar Khaddafi, to scrap his supposed WMDs. Khaddafi complied, and as a result sanctions on Libya were lifted. Khadaffi thought that this will end once and for all US abuse of the country. But alas, that was not to be so. In 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring, the US, now ruled by Obama, saw a chance to get rid of Khadaffi, so it made up atrocity propaganda that Libya was massacring its own people, and that the city of Benghazi would be destroyed, if something wasn’t done. The US managed to stir up enough frenzy to compel the UN to enact a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent Libyan air force from being able to use their air power to knock out rebels. But the US being the US, it promptly violated the agreement by itself attacking Libya’s military FROM THE AIR, killing many civilians, and enacting regime change. The results of this US/NATO war crime are well known, and continue to plague Europe to this day in the form of floods of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa. Was this just an unintended consequence, or deliberate?
5. In 2013, after a chemical weapons attack in a suburb of Damascus, the US accused the Syrian military of using chemical weapons against civilians. There was, and continues to be, no proof of this allegation. Subsequent investigations done by various 3rd party organizations found no evidence of Syrian army use of chemical munitions, yet US sticks to the lie. It almost attacked Syria over these lies, but Russia stepped in and convinced Syria to renounce and surrender all chemical weapons. Syria did so, yet the US has continued with its false accusations. Subsequent chemical attacks launched by various rebel groups affiliated with Al Qaeda and other terror groups have been blamed on Syria without evidence, and the US regime has refused any independent investigations on-site. It did its own ‘remote investigation,’ whatever that is, which only took the word of rebel forces into consideration. So even though Syria renounced chemical weapons, and became a party to the OPCW convention, this has not stopped the US from accusing Syria of using chemical weapons.
6. In 2015, Iran and the P5+1 signed the JCPOA agreement. It obligates Iran to significantly decrease its stockpiles of enriched uranium and allow more oversight and limits on its nuclear program, in return for lifting of UN sanctions. To date, Iran has observed the agreement, but US has refused to do so. It has attached unreasonable and illegal demands that Iran fulfill that were never a part of the agreement, and are not legally-binding. US has also renewed the same sanctions against Iran that it lifted under other pretexts that have nothing to do with the nuclear issue. Since Trump came into office, he has been trying to do everything he can to deliberately ruin the agreement. He has tried to provoke Iran, and falsely accuse it of all sorts of deeds in order to manufacture a reason to deem Iran not in compliance with the JCPOA. By doing so, the US is trying to break its word, and make it look like Iran’s fault. Such US behavior not only violates the core of the JCPOA, but also its spirit.
7. Most recently, the US accused Russia of being in violation of the Open Skies agreement on military overflights that both countries are allowed to perform as a confidence-building measure. The US has been putting limits on Russia piecemeal, and now complains that Russia is prohibiting the US from flying over the Kaliningrad enclave. Russia has stated that it broke up US military monitoring overflights over Kaliningrad into two separate ones because most of the US overflight time allotted by Russia focused on Kaliningrad too heavily, and this disrupted civilian airline traffic. Now the US is using this excuse as a cop-out to leave the treaty, when such disagreements could’ve been solved by discussion. Again, there is more to this US scofflaw behavior than meets the eye. The US regime most likely is trying to hide something it doesn’t want Russia to know about.
8. Since Trump came into office, he has been very much against free trade pacts. He announced that the US would not be participating in CETA, TIPP and TPP. He promised to put ‘America first.’ At face value, this looked like a good move, and it seemed like Trump would be moving away from the globalist economic policies and US-imposed economic diktat. It seemed that Trump was going to encourage fair, open trade, and work to make US more economically competitive in a civilized way.
But this was just an illusion. Trump’s America First rhetoric wasn’t simply about Americans putting America first. It was about forcing other countries to put America first, above their own interests. We can see now that Trump’s aversion to trade pacts had nothing to do with fairness; it had to do with not being tied to any obligation toward other nations when it comes to trade policies. What Trump wants is to force other nations to buy American, without any give on the part of the US. Trump’s use of sanctions against Russian and European firms involved in the Nord Stream 2 energy pipeline is a good case in point. Trump’s threatening of China and other Asian countries with tariffs and embargos is another. A trade pact would at least prevent Trump from forcing US products on others using threats. This reality exposes a very important fact: that the US cannot compete in certain spheres. It has to use unilateral, arbitrary sanctions and threats to force others to do its economic bidding, and buy American. But this strategy is self-defeating as it will scare off potential customers, and compel others like Russia and China to create their own separate economic blocs and policies, free of US influence and the dollar.
These are just some of the agreements that the US has violated because it didn’t feel like obeying them for its own reasons.
Whenever the US walks away from an agreement, it has a ready-made excuse. The excuse is either an outright fabrications, or a twisted version of the facts greatly exaggerated.
Each attempt by the US to renege on an agreement is done in such a way as to make some other party to the agreement look responsible for both the ‘violation,’ and its consequences. We can see this at work currently regarding Trump’s greasy and dishonest attempts to walk away from the JCPOA.
This casual US abrogation of agreements they signed makes the US look like an unreliable, untrustworthy country.
It also leads to other countries, whom the US doesn’t like for whatever reason, to come to the conclusion that signing any agreement with the US is worthless, since the US may abandon it at any time for any contrived reason. This is what forces these countries to arm themselves with powerful deterrents. This is presently the case with North Korea.
North Korea has been watching what happens to countries that sign disarmament agreements with the US, and agree to intrusive inspections. Iraq, Libya, Syria have all been attacked and turned into war zones by the US after signing agreements to disarm, and despite giving up their arsenals of biological and chemical weapons.
The US only seems to want to sign agreements from which it either is the main beneficiary with little give, or ones from which it can wiggle out of.
The US, by abandoning agreements for its own selfish interests, shows others that it cannot be trusted; that the US government’s word is worth nothing; that the US is unreliable and cannot be counted on to do what it signed onto. This will prevent other nations from signing anything with the US ever again. It will also drive nations to make deals with others who actually abide by what they signed. It also shows US adversaries that the US won’t leave them alone even if they agree to disarm, thereby leading those countries to arm themselves with nuclear and other deterrents to keep the US away.
These countries clearly see that disarmament agreements are a path to invasion, not peace. They see these agreements as a ruse, whereby the US, backed up by the UN or some other organization or group of countries, ensures than an adversary is weakened and possesses no strong deterrent against the US. The adversary simply turns itself into a soft, weak target of US military intervention later on. This way, when US forces do invade, they have much less to worry about.
It is utterly repugnant for Trump to use patriotic rhetoric and false pretenses to violate treaties. This is an act of a political hooligan without honor.
This aberrant behavior will lead to loss of allies and strengthening of enemies.
The US has already caused serious problems for itself by walking away from agreements it has signed. This trend will only continue.
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