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Long ago, the U.S. wanted to give itself the image of a true democracy, the defender of human rights, the policeman of the world, the defender of justice and humanity.

Perhaps the “founding fathers” of the American Republic had this in mind, but the ideal was never realized and has been in ruins since the so-called “War on Terror” was launched in 2001.

Before this episode, there were already countless wars by the U.S., like the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The Americans tried to justify all that by claiming they had liberated Europe from Hitler’s fascism, and subsequently, they were purportedly freeing the world from “evil communism”.

However, a fateful turning point emerged, heralding the demise of the American empire.

The terror attack of 9/11 was allegedly by radicalized Muslims. But there are too many questions and above all lies. The U.S. has become an empire of lies about what happened, and who did it.

The biggest lies were told about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. After all the alleged attackers almost all came from Saudi Arabia. That their leader, Osama bin Laden, would have hidden in the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan might be possible, but there was still no justification for the war and bombing of that country back to the Stone Age.

As with Iraq, a country which mainly consists of 80 percent Shia, not radical Sunnis typical of Al Qaeda.

The Americans then under President George Bush Sr. left these Shia in 1991 to die at the end of the First Gulf War against Iraq. His son President George W Bush Jr. started it again in 2003, reportedly as revenge for the failed assassination plan on his father, justifying it by the so-called 9/11 attack.

As Nick Turse details in this article, Suicide Squad, the War on Terror is not over yet and the majority of victims these days are American soldiers and servicemen who commit suicide in large numbers.

The United States, which now spends more on its military than the other top 10 countries combined, has failed to win a single war that matters. It lost the Korean and Vietnam Wars. It lost the never-ending Global War on Terror, and it spent 20 years losing in Afghanistan and Iraq.

About 7,000 American soldiers lost their lives in combat during the War on Terror since 2001, but the real epidemic of deaths can be found in the U.S. itself. Approximately 2,530 soldiers died between 2014 and 2019 from causes ranging from car crashes to drug overdoses to cancer, while more than one-third took their own lives.

Just 96 soldiers died in combat during those same five years. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Returning soldiers from the War on Terror often end up on the streets, homeless and addicted, left alone with their trauma about what happened especially in Afghanistan or Iraq and more recently Syria.

In my opinion, the biggest trauma of these U.S. soldiers is not from shell shock, that is, brain trauma from bombs, grenades, and rockets, in warfare. The bigger trauma is from what they have done (and still do) in torture centers in Bagram, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and numerous other “black sites” in Europe and elsewhere across the Middle East. They torture prisoners including children and even kill them.

The CIA has admitted to using waterboarding, which simulates drowning by pouring water into a person’s nose and mouth, as well as other torture techniques, such as prisoners being beaten and punched while dragged naked through corridors, isolated in total darkness, exposed to constant deafening music, rape and locked in coffins.

The so-called “free and democratic” Europe has also participated in this since 2001. In 2018, it became known that there were CIA “black sites” in Poland, Lithuania, and Romania. Muslims or other suspects were picked up from the streets, tortured in these invisible prisons, and then sent to Guantanamo Bay where they often confessed guilt under torture. Some people are still there imprisoned after more than 20 years.

The former CIA torture detention center called “Violet“ in Lithuania is for sale. The Lithuanian government wants to get rid of the property, they say. The government’s real estate fund, which manages assets the state no longer needs, says it is preparing the sale. The real estate fund took over the building from the Lithuanian secret service, which held training sessions there from 2007 to 2018, perhaps for the impending proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

A notorious ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoner from Iraq and very confusing to many is Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, not to be confused with Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ostensible leader of ISIS (Daesh). Or are they the same? Was al-Baghdadi, as many Iraqis and Syrians claim, a phantom, a Mossad agent posing as the “leader” named Shimon Elliot?

What we know is that there were many prisoners, mostly ex-soldiers and officers of Saddam Hussein’s army detained in Camp Bucca in Iraq, which is a CIA black site.

In July 2007, U.S. military spokesman Brigadier General Kevin Bergner, claimed that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi did not actually exist, and that all of his audio statements were actually read by an elderly Iraqi actor.

Another option regarding the mysterious Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the story of a captive identified as Khaled al-Mashhadani, a self-proclaimed intermediary for Osama bin Laden. He claimed that al-Baghdadi was a fictional character created to give an Iraqi face to a foreign-led group. In March 2008, the spokesman for a rival insurgent organization, Hamas of Iraq, also claimed that al-Baghdadi was a fabrication by Al Qaeda.

The other Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became famous in 2014 as the leader of ISIS. But, as I said, it could very well be that it was all faked by the Americans, who might have used an actor in the form of a Mossad agent in Camp Bucca, or perhaps an American agent.

Back to the War on Terror, which some researchers and journalists call the endless war of the U.S. We have seen an upsurge in terrorist attacks lately, like in Russia, the Middle East, and Africa. For me, this upsurge in terrorism is fueled by the U.S. which uses terrorists and neo-Nazis as their proxies. The terrorists of ISIS, Al Qaeda and other groups were pushed back from Aleppo to Syria’s Idlib province by the Syrian army aided by Russia.

Many of these American terrorist foot soldiers have left for Ukraine, to join existing terror groups there such as the Sheikh Mansur Brigade. They have also joined the Ukrainian Foreign Legion because they have a grudge against Russia. The American-led War on Terror continues until today.

Nevertheless, America and the West are declining empires. The collapse started with the War on Terror over two decades ago. The terror rebounds in the U.S. making its soldiers and veterans die by suicide, drugs, and poverty.

Osama bin Laden may have been right after all when he reputedly said: “America has been touched by God in one of his softest places” – and he did not mean the Twin Towers, as it turns out, but the suicide and addiction rates among the U.S. military.