{"id":2710,"date":"2020-10-01T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:08:39","slug":"types-of-wars-and-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/01\/types-of-wars-and-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Wars and Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"\nI keep thinking of the slaughter of people which occurs by such things as dropping an atomic bomb over them. This is a mass extermination of people, as are genocides. I also have in mind dropping of napalm on villages and cities, as in Vietnam and Japan. [See: <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/japan\/napalm.html\">67 Japanese Cities Firebombed in World War II<\/a>]\n<p>\nMy naive picture of war used to be the picture of a battle in which two armies faced each other &#8212; something like the Napoleonic battles. Below is a depiction the Battle of Austerlitz:\n<\/p><p> .<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AotbMs7BIhE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>\nBut mass extermination has no semblance to these pictures of two armies facing each other. It has semblance more to an execution or pest control.\n<p>\nAs to Napoleonic type battles which represent all State wars of the past, they all have the stench of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pyrrhic_victory\">Pyrrhic victories<\/a>.   Who is the winner? And the winner of what?\n<\/P><p>\nThe winner is normally some individual &#8212; a monarch, a president, a general, or, today, some corporation and some CEO.\n<p>\nAnd who is the loser? The countless bodies on the battlefields (the &#8220;pawns&#8221;) and civilians .  Think of Napoleon&#8217;s invasion of Russia in 1812. It involved more that 1.5 million soldiers, of these .5 million dead French soldiers, and .4 million dead Russians.\n<\/p><p>\nOr, think of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s invasion of the South in 1861. [It was not a &#8220;civil war&#8221; since it did not involve a struggle over the replacement of the federal government; it was a war against secession.] According to Wikipedia, &#8220;The war resulted in at least 1,030,000 casualties (3 percent of the population), including about 620,000 soldier deaths\u2014two-thirds by disease, and 50,000 civilians.&#8221;\n<\/p><p>\nWhat is appalling today are the assassinations and &#8220;collateral damages&#8221; by the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkey_shoot\">&#8220;turkey shoots.&#8221;<\/a> I have in mind the targeted killings by the use of helicopters and drones as  below:<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5rXPrfnU3G0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>\nAnd there is concerted effort today in the U.S. to suppress reporting about such &#8220;turkey shoots.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_Assange\">Julian Assange<\/a> is facing a British court which is deciding whether to extradite him to the U.S. to stand trial for violating  the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Espionage_Act_of_1917\">Espionage Act (1917)<\/a> by publishing on Wikileaks materials provided to him by Chelsea Manning about such U.S. &#8220;turkey shoots.&#8221;\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep thinking of the slaughter of people which occurs by such things as dropping an atomic bomb over them. This is a mass extermination of people, as are genocides. I also have in mind dropping of napalm on villages and cities, as in Vietnam and Japan. [See: 67 Japanese Cities Firebombed in World War &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/01\/types-of-wars-and-killings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Types of Wars and Killings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}