TIL U.S sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of chemical herbicides and defoliants during Vietnam war as a part of Operation Ranch Hand. Longstanding effects of the sprayed chemicals led to approximately 400,000 deaths and at least 500,000 children born with congenital disorders in Vietnam

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The military industrial complex supported communists several years before in South West Asia, in which interestingly, Martin Luther King, realizing his life was destined not just for the advocacy of justice and liberty within his own community but for all folks who wished peace against war, spoke out against the warmongering geopolitics of the Military Industrial Complex, calling them out for their utter hypocrisy in maiming and killing thousands for profit and for geopolitics sake. In his speecjes he was keen at illustrating the fact that the US armed and funded communist groups several years before. This is why he was killed. And the state then slandered him as a communist, when he understood it that both sides were not innocent.