New statistics released last month by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) reveal a disturbing trend. The world now has the most refugees ever. At the end of 2018, there were a total of 70.8 million refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people – including 13.6 million newly displaced people in 2018 alone. With all the tension around the topic of immigration in first world nations, you would think that the governments of those countries would be careful not to cause situations which would lead to more migration. You would think that they’d be careful not to enact policies which could potentially cause more refugees, especially if those refugees then look to emigrate to the country making those policies (blowback). But consistency has never been a strong point of US foreign policy.
What the UN Report Didn’t Tell You
The UN Report Global Trends Forced Displacement in 2018 is full of stats, but it doesn’t really tell you the reason for those stats. You can learn about the what but not the why. In the image above, taken from the report, we learn the top 5 nations from which people are fleeing. But why? The UN says it is due to conflict; to put it more bluntly, from war. So who’s initiating these wars?
US Wars and Regime Change Operations Causing Most Refugees Ever
Out of these top 5 nations, the US has invaded and/or occupied 4 of them: Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Somalia. Afghanistan has become infamous for US military waste (it was reported in 2013 that the US Army was to leave $7 billion in equipment behind there), not to mention brutality and ineffectiveness. The Taliban now control more territory than they did in 2011 when the US first invaded. The war in Syria has dragged on for years, becoming something of a stalemate, although at one point Russia helped the Syrian Government by getting rid of a lot of ISIS soldiers (since the US was unwilling to truly take on its own proxy army). All this took – and continues to take – a great toll on the Syrian people, many of whom became homeless in their own country and fled. Some people may not be aware of the US troop presence in South Sudan, but they’ve been there since before the country split into two. See the article How the United States Kept Arms Flowing into South Sudan for a very brief background to US intervention in Sudan. As for Somalia, the US entered in 1992 (part of a UN ‘peacekeeping’ force) for the purposes of humanitarian aid (‘humanitarian intervention’). In 1993, elite US special operations forces conducted a failed raid (leading to the deaths of 18 American troops). President Clinton pulled them out afterwards. The US military returned to Somalia in 2013, when they sent a small number of advisers to Mogadishu to help African Union troops.
The US in Myanmar
The only one the US Military hasn’t invaded (yet) is Myanmar, probably because it’s so close to China, another giant Empire and Superpower on the rise. However, there is more to the story in Myanmar than the public relations narrative that poor Rohingya Muslims are being chased out of the country by militant Buddhists. As I covered in the article Radical Islamic Terrorists: The Best Bad Guys Money Can Buy, the US and Saudi Arabia (and Israel too) are behind the funding of radical Islamic terrorism all around the world. There is evidence of US-Saudi interference in Myanmar, inciting jihad to hinder China’s geopolitical projects in Asia, notably the BRI (Belt and Road Initiative), the ‘New Silk Road’ joining Asia and Europe by rail and seafaring lines.
What About Venezuela? Didn’t a Lot of People Flee the Bolivarian Republic?
Yes they did. The US has been targeting Venezuela for awhile, especially from 2002 onwards, the year of the failed coup against Chavez. US neocons and hawks ramped up regime change operations significantly at the start of this year 2019 when they began promoting their stooge Guaido and trying to claim this puppet of a man was the legitimate president! Venezuela only has around 32 million people, and a shocking 2.6 million have fled (mostly to Columbia) – the most refugees by far in the history of the Bolivarian Republic. Some of this is undoubtedly due to internal mismanagement and corruption by the Madruo Administration, but a large part is due to aggressive US sacntions, economic warfare and attempts to overthrow the legitimately elected government there.
Sanctions Kill – Former UNHRC Secretary Alfredo de Zayas
Alfred de Zayas (a former secretary on the UN Human Rights Council and an expert in international law) wrote a report for the UN in September 2018. In it, he laid out why, to put it bluntly, “sanctions kill.” He wrote:
“The effects of sanctions imposed by Presidents Obama and Trump and unilateral measures by Canada and the European Union have directly and indirectly aggravated the shortages in medicines such as insulin and anti-retroviral drugs. To the extent that economic sanctions have caused delays in distribution and thus contributed to many deaths, sanctions contravene the human rights obligations of the countries imposing them.”
Sanctions tend to become a collective punishment which affect the poorest people in society the most. Sanctions provably lead to sickness and death through food and medicine shortages. There are many heartbreaking stories of Venezuelans who have had to leaves their homes, property and ancestral lands due to food and medicine shortages. For more background, you can watch this brief report by the Real News Network Sanctions Block Medicine from Venezuela, Killing Thousands.
Most Refugees Ever: A Quick Summary of the Stats
Here are some quotes and images with the official statistics from the UNCHR report:
“At the end of 2018, Syrians continued to be the largest forcibly displaced population, with 13.0 million people living in displacement, including 6,654,000 refugees, 6,184,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) and 140,000 asylum-seekers.”
Figure 18 above shows the major source countries of new asylum-seekers for 2017-2018. In 2018, the highest number of new asylum-applicants were from Venezuela, the 2nd highest were from Afghanistan, the 3rd highest were from Syria and the 4th highest were from Iraq. Guess what? The US has either conducted outright invasion, regime change operations or sanctions/economic warfare against all these countries.
Final Thoughts
This refugee situation is yet another reason for all of us to take off blinders, look squarely at the US-led NWO Empire and realize the terrible destruction it wreaks all over the world. If you care about illegal immigration, look at the US Military. If you care about the environment and reducing pollution, look at the US Military (the DoD/Pentagon is the biggest polluter on Earth). If you care about peace and avoiding war, look at the US Military. How much death and destruction is it going to take before more people wake up to this?
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Sources:
*https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/5d08d7ee7.pdf
*https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/06/20/193978665/u-s-army-to-scrap-7-billion-in-equipment-in-afghanistan
*https://fpif.org/how-the-united-states-kept-arms-flowing-into-south-sudan/
*https://thefreedomarticles.com/radical-islamic-terrorists-best-bad-guys/
*https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/09/08/is-new-kosovo-brewing-in-myanmar/
*https://thefreedomarticles.com/venezuelan-economic-crisis-cause-not-socialism/
*https://thefreedomarticles.com/venezuela-coup-time-2019/
*https://www.statista.com/chart/16766/venezuela-migration/
*https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G18/239/31/pdf/G1823931.pdf?OpenElement
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzfvgSdxDxc
24 Comments
I do believe that there by now,at least a fair number of people worldwide,who have woken up to the facts about the overall devastation,worldwide,brought about by the US perpetual war machine !
Unfortunately,us poor little folk worldwide,have little ability or power to put a stop to it – the MIC are way too powerful for that – i wish we could somehow stop it !
Since the U.S. is a vassal state for another country which country is really creating those refugees?
The US Govt is controlled by the (((Banksters))). These Jesuit Zionists own every central bank in the world, create all the money and own all the assets – including the UN. THEY are the evil force creating wars and refugees.
This article insinuates that US intervention creates refugees. It fails to show the proportion from this and other causes. So could be 5% or 95%. Very inconclusive and fails to substantiate its main point, leaving only an appeal to the emotions.
Thanks for your comment. I am not insinuating US militarism, aggression and intervention creates refugees. I am point-blank stating it as a fact.
As for the proportion … looks at the statistics I included in the article, but the source UNHCR report I linked to. it is full of stats. You can learn which nations have the most refugees, where they come from, where they flee to and much more. There is “official” UN statistic that’s going to calculate how much blame to assign to the USG! They will not bite the hands that feeds them … which is why I wrote this article to spell out the “why” behind the stats. As you can see, the US is largely responsible for the latest asylum-seekers in the top 5 source nations.
This is all about creating an Agenda21/2030 UN Fascist Corporatocracy. And the main culprits are: Obama, the UN, WHO, Soros, USAID. WE ARE BEING PLAYED. Trump was merely trying to fix this mess. The plan is to inundate the US, EU, Canada with Muslim extremacist: creating division and possibly civil war. Then comes martial law.
It’s not a partisan issue. Trump is pushing forward aspects of Agenda 2030 too. With his penchant for provoking various nations (Iran, China), engaging in regime change (Venezuela) and his strong support for US militarism, he is furthering the aims of the New World Order by attempting to subdue and destroy countries not (yet) in the orbit of the US-NWO Empire.
UNCHR doesnt cover the Palestinian Refugees who are covered by UNRWA. They are the largest and longest suffering refugee population.
Yeah right, another Seattle option, blaming everything on the U.S., which shows little in research efforts. Normally, any investors in anything, but especially in the large amounts that even third-world countries require, but when the investors get screwed out of any investments they made such as the oil companies being taken over and nationalized by the government, they can hardly expect anything but sanctions. Cause guess what, it is about the mafia banksters and globalists, but that’s irrelevant, even mafia gangsters don’t like getting screwed out of money and will respond with crippling sanctions. Sorry to burst your liberal utopian bubble, but get real , none of it happens in a vaccuum. All these countries played their role in reaping what they were sowing, so be realistic.
The “loans” to 3rd world and developing countries are predatory to begin with. See former economic hitman John Perkins for an explanation of how the game works. The idea is to saddle these nations with crippling debt, then take over their infrastructure. Why is it fair that the lion’s share of the profit of a nation’s resources leave the country to go to multinationals, rather than the people of the country that owns it?
The US doesn’t invade Syria, Libya and many other countries just to guard its investments – that is at the superficial level. It is mostly invading according to a long-held geopolitical agenda to knock off the weaker nations and encircle Russia and China.
This is about world domination:
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/wolfowitz-doctrine-us-plan-global-supremacy/
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/pivot-to-asia-militarization-of-pacific/
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/us-provoking-iran-again-66-years/
Most of these countries are also run by either socialist or Islamic dictators. The writer seemed to conveniently overlook that fact about the real situation in each of these countries, as well as several other contributing factors, like harboring terrorists, starving or killing their own people in genocidal actions, etc, etc, etc…
Pick something else to write about that you can do real research on and still be objective, instead of one-sided BS.
Recall June 1986 when the International Court of Justice (aka World Court) found the US government guilty of:
1. The illegal use of force (i.e. aggression);
2. Illegal economic warefare;
3. The illegal use of mercenaries against the civilian population;
In the US’s treatment of Nicaragua.
The court ordered the US to pay Nicaragua reparations. None were paid. Soon after the (Democrat)ically controlled congress voted to allocate another 100 million dollars of aid to the contras (freedom fighters).
No one knows this. The US has repeated resorted to aggression, economic warfare and proxy mercenaries ever since.
At this time the world order was demolished and continues to be. The US should have lost its permanent membership on the security council for these convictions. As the New York Times stated “the World Court is a hostile forum.”
I do believe that there by now,at least a fair number of people worldwide,who have woken up to the facts about the overall devastation,worldwide,brought about by the US perpetual war machine !
Unfortunately,us poor little folk worldwide,have little ability or power to put a stop to it – the MIC are way too powerful for that – i wish we could somehow stop it !
Since the U.S. is a vassal state for another country which country is really creating those refugees?
UNCHR doesnt cover the Palestinian Refugees who are covered by UNRWA. They are the largest and longest suffering refugee population.
This article insinuates that US intervention creates refugees. It fails to show the proportion from this and other causes. So could be 5% or 95%. Very inconclusive and fails to substantiate its main point, leaving only an appeal to the emotions.
Thanks for your comment. I am not insinuating US militarism, aggression and intervention creates refugees. I am point-blank stating it as a fact.
As for the proportion … looks at the statistics I included in the article, but the source UNHCR report I linked to. it is full of stats. You can learn which nations have the most refugees, where they come from, where they flee to and much more. There is “official” UN statistic that’s going to calculate how much blame to assign to the USG! They will not bite the hands that feeds them … which is why I wrote this article to spell out the “why” behind the stats. As you can see, the US is largely responsible for the latest asylum-seekers in the top 5 source nations.
Most of these countries are also run by either socialist or Islamic dictators. The writer seemed to conveniently overlook that fact about the real situation in each of these countries, as well as several other contributing factors, like harboring terrorists, starving or killing their own people in genocidal actions, etc, etc, etc…
Pick something else to write about that you can do real research on and still be objective, instead of one-sided BS.
This is all about creating an Agenda21/2030 UN Fascist Corporatocracy. And the main culprits are: Obama, the UN, WHO, Soros, USAID. WE ARE BEING PLAYED. Trump was merely trying to fix this mess. The plan is to inundate the US, EU, Canada with Muslim extremacist: creating division and possibly civil war. Then comes martial law.
It’s not a partisan issue. Trump is pushing forward aspects of Agenda 2030 too. With his penchant for provoking various nations (Iran, China), engaging in regime change (Venezuela) and his strong support for US militarism, he is furthering the aims of the New World Order by attempting to subdue and destroy countries not (yet) in the orbit of the US-NWO Empire.
The US Govt is controlled by the (((Banksters))). These Jesuit Zionists own every central bank in the world, create all the money and own all the assets – including the UN. THEY are the evil force creating wars and refugees.
Recall June 1986 when the International Court of Justice (aka World Court) found the US government guilty of:
1. The illegal use of force (i.e. aggression);
2. Illegal economic warefare;
3. The illegal use of mercenaries against the civilian population;
In the US’s treatment of Nicaragua.
The court ordered the US to pay Nicaragua reparations. None were paid. Soon after the (Democrat)ically controlled congress voted to allocate another 100 million dollars of aid to the contras (freedom fighters).
No one knows this. The US has repeated resorted to aggression, economic warfare and proxy mercenaries ever since.
At this time the world order was demolished and continues to be. The US should have lost its permanent membership on the security council for these convictions. As the New York Times stated “the World Court is a hostile forum.”
Yeah right, another Seattle option, blaming everything on the U.S., which shows little in research efforts. Normally, any investors in anything, but especially in the large amounts that even third-world countries require, but when the investors get screwed out of any investments they made such as the oil companies being taken over and nationalized by the government, they can hardly expect anything but sanctions. Cause guess what, it is about the mafia banksters and globalists, but that’s irrelevant, even mafia gangsters don’t like getting screwed out of money and will respond with crippling sanctions. Sorry to burst your liberal utopian bubble, but get real , none of it happens in a vaccuum. All these countries played their role in reaping what they were sowing, so be realistic.
The “loans” to 3rd world and developing countries are predatory to begin with. See former economic hitman John Perkins for an explanation of how the game works. The idea is to saddle these nations with crippling debt, then take over their infrastructure. Why is it fair that the lion’s share of the profit of a nation’s resources leave the country to go to multinationals, rather than the people of the country that owns it?
The US doesn’t invade Syria, Libya and many other countries just to guard its investments – that is at the superficial level. It is mostly invading according to a long-held geopolitical agenda to knock off the weaker nations and encircle Russia and China.
This is about world domination:
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/wolfowitz-doctrine-us-plan-global-supremacy/
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/pivot-to-asia-militarization-of-pacific/
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/us-provoking-iran-again-66-years/