David Vine
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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Thank you for having me.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
It's a difficult day to entirely embrace the happy 4th of July, but I feel very lucky to have a chance to talk together.
It's a darn good question, and I've been dedicating a lot of my working life to answering that question.
We can quickly dispense of any idea that U.S.
wars have been inevitable or somehow baked into the DNA of the country.
I think the easiest way, and surely many in Ireland can understand, to understand the history of endless wars that the United States has been fighting since independence, almost without cessation,
is to understand that, of course, the United States is a country that won its independence in a war with Britain.
It freed itself from the British Empire and very much inherited the imperial roots of the British Empire.
It was a war not just for freedom or democracy as...
Some of the myth would have it, but it was a war for imperial control and control over imperial mechanisms that enabled the United States to expand as an empire across the North American continent and then eventually to expand beyond North America to conquer and control lands around the world to become ultimately a global empire.
Exactly right.
Virtually the entire 19th century and most of the late 18th century after the United States won its independence from the British Empire was fought fighting a long series of wars against Native American peoples and nations.
And those were just some of the wars.
At the same time, the United States
invaded Canada on 11 separate occasions, invaded Mexico on 10 occasions, and took almost half of Mexico's territory, which is part of how I'm sitting now in the United States, living in California and not in Mexico, or for that matter, in Spain, or of course, this is ultimately occupied native lands.
We could spend the rest of the interview reading the 100 and more than 135 different nations and peoples that the United States military has fought wars with or engaged in some form of combat with.
Many, of course, are most focused, as we should be, on the last war.
Now, almost 25 years of war since the George W. Bush administration launched its so-called war on terror.
And in many ways, that is exactly why the United States is involved in yet another endless war.
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