At least 37 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a new report from Brown University’s Costs of War project. That figure exceeds those displaced by conflict since 1900, the authors say, with the exception of World War II.

The report accounts for the number of people, mostly civilians, displaced in and from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya and Syria, where fighting has been the most significant, and says the figure is a conservative estimate — the real number may range from 48 million to 59 million. The calculation does not include the millions of other people who have been displaced in countries with smaller U.S. counterterrorism operations, according to the report, including those in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and Niger.

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YEAH!!!!!!! DEMOCRACY!!!!

Man f*** this Imperial first world. This s*** makes me so sad. I praise my successful anti-imperialists, including, but not limited to Kim Jong Un, Thomas Sankara, Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi.

May we unite the global south to reach a revolution where people are considered more important than profit.

Why can't every one just get along?

even crazier when you realize that bush did 9/11 just to make his dad’s friends richer

Damn

The prospect of a revolution and putting the importance of people before profit sounds great and all. But hypothetically, if this was to be achieved, it's not long before our inherent greed kicks in, and humans begin to cause the same conditions which led to a revolution in the first place. The imagined order is a cycle, and one we are interminably enslaved to.

37 million?!

Got to keep American war machine going

Putting kim on that list

I feel your energy though

not good

We are next.

This subject scares me because I already know that what's happening to us right now will lead to American refugees, who will inevitably enter Europe and allow for further destabilization as the Europeans argue about us being there just like we did for Mexicans and Syrians. It's a common tactic.

But beyond that, the history of what America specifically has done to other countries, as the thread title hints at, is what worries me that whatever leads to us becoming those refugees will be exceptionally ugly. I think Russia, China, Turkey, etc. are looking to make an example out of us to the rest of the world

Dude is really praising Kim in name of valuing human life

refugee here 🙋🏽‍♂️