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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[–]Tom_Bombadil 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

This crime is multiplied many times over, as contaminated persons may have long term birth defects and health complications for multiple generations.

Multigenerational and Transgenerational Effects of Dioxins - NCBI

To make matters worse dioxins are:

  • Exceedingly temperature resistant (many dioxins are produced during incineration, so incinerators don't destroy them)
  • Environmentally persistent
  • Evaporate at room temp
  • Many condense a few degrees above the freezing point (and eventually accumulate at higher latitudes)
  • Bioaccumulate

https://www.alsglobal.eu/specialities/dioxins-testing/dioxin-testing/about-dioxins

The seriousness of this hazard cannot be overstated.

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The seriousness of this hazard cannot be overstated.

Absolutely not! And don't forget about Depleted Uranium as well. Many innocent soldiers and civilians have been harmed because of it in Iraq and Afghanistan for generations.

[–]JasonCarswell 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

It's stuff like this that make me retch every time someone goes off on the "commies" - as if we're the good guys. As if "we" meant we. ("We" didn't win the Superbowl. A few guys on the team did. "We" watched.)

The real battle is between the ruling class and everyone else. #FightElitesNotEachOther

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

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.