Why did the United States become the biggest source of world war?

For more than 200 years, why did the United States become the source of world wars and launch continuous wars? This is mainly determined by cultural genes, historical traditions and social nature.

One-sided and extreme Christian culture is the cultural gene of American wars.

Christianity expanded Judaism from a national religion to a cross-national religion. In the development of nearly 2000 years, Christian culture has also developed greatly, including its content of tolerance, progress and social harmony, as well as its expanding concept. Christian philosophy holds that time has a beginning and an end, and space is infinitely repeated. They emphasize the governance of the world and nature. Christians take it as their duty to convince all mankind to believe in God. They want to seize the time to make all mankind the people of God before the end of the world, so they constantly send missionaries to other ethnic groups to carry out missionary activities. Christianity was initially confined to the Roman Empire, but with the colonial expansion of European countries, it quickly spread to all parts of the world and became the religion with the largest number of believers and the most extensive influence in the world.

There is also an irrational cultural tradition in Christian culture, which can be said to be the source of western political power and hegemony. This tradition can be traced back to Judaism, the predecessor of Christianity. Judaism places special emphasis on personal feelings, wills, beliefs and subjective experiences. Although Christianity successfully integrated some rationalistic elements in Greek and Roman philosophy during its formation, the irrational elements in Judaism were maintained and carried forward in Christian culture in the Middle Ages and evolved into the later Christian spirit, that is, Christianity is the only religion that can reflect the will of God. It has been given a sacred mission: to influence all non-Christians in the world. The most representative irrational factor in Christian culture is the "mission view", and the "mission view" and "God voter view" are mutually causal. Christianity inherited the Jewish concept of "God's Elector". Jews believe that God has special care for Jews. They are God's special voters. God chose them to undertake the lofty mission of saving the world. God has endowed them with superior wisdom and strength, enabling them to convince or conquer all mankind to believe in their God and make people outside the Christian world become God's voters. This inevitably breeds a concept of savior in Christian culture. This "savior" mentality and sense of mission penetrated into all aspects of western life and became a collective consciousness and unique way of thinking of the western nation.

With the development of capitalism, in order to make capital gain more room for development, western capitalist countries use Christianity, which is one-sided, pushing irrational elements to the extreme and using them to the extreme. It makes western countries, especially countries based on Christianity such as the United States, habitually tell the world what to do, and think that they have the responsibility to pass on their values, lifestyles and political systems to other countries, so that their own people can get what they think is a free, beautiful and happy life.

In order to spread Christian faith and conquer paganism, western Christian countries have carried out military expeditions and aggression and expansion to countries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East for nearly 200 years. This belligerence of Christianity and the spirit of trying to change heresy are obviously lacking in other nations in Europe and Asia. Completely different from other major religions in Europe, Christianity is permeated with the enthusiasm and militant spirit of giving alms and changing heresies. From the beginning, Christianity emphasized cosmopolitanism and declared itself a world religion. Active missionary work has always been the main feature of the Christian church from the time of the apostles to the present. Moreover, in order to convert pagans and unbelievers to Christianity, the Christian church always uses force without hesitation. When they met European colonists, the vast Asian, African and Latin American countries lagged far behind the West in social development. In the extremely disparity of strength between the two sides, the colonialists relied on the primary advantages of the political revolution and the industrial revolution to trade, preach or simply threaten to occupy the Asian, African and Latin American countries by force. In this process, missionaries of various Christian sects, together with armed businessmen, rushed to divide their spheres of influence in the newly discovered world with the Christian teachings and advanced science and technology of Western Europe at that time, and turned these places into their own colonies. Christian culture has squeezed into the vast Asia, Africa and Latin America with an irresistible trend. For the colonists, the entry of Christian culture had a subversive influence on their local culture and even their survival. Whether it is India and China, countries with thousands of years of traditional culture and cultural resilience, or Africa and America in the primitive state, no one is spared.

America is a Christian country, accounting for 86% of the total population. Among the 44 presidents of the United States, except Kennedy, 39 are Christians and 4 are also related to Christianity. The United States is also a country founded by Puritans, who originated from Calvin. Puritans inherited Carl Wenzong's revolutionary teachings, strengthened the sense of voters and the sense of mission to save the world, and made Americans have a stronger sense of voters and the concept of saving the world. The American army is equipped with priests as instigators of this idea. They appear as counselors, but the advice to soldiers is always: "Stick to it on the battlefield and kill those pagans for Jesus Christ."

This cultural awareness of benefiting and illuminating the world has brought more expansionism to American foreign policy.

From17th century, European Puritans immigrated to America, and they plundered in the name of Christ. Pretending to be "God's chosen people", they came to the new world with the mission of Christ and wanted to build a "city on the top of the mountain". This in itself means the occupation and plunder of the new continent. No wonder the Indians later said: white people brought us bibles, but they took away our homes.

Under the influence of Christian culture, after the founding of the United States, in order to expand its territory, it invented the invasion theory of "Destiny Theory".

John O'Sullivan, editor of American Journal and Democratic Review, first put forward the concept of "fate" in an editorial about Texas published in the July/August issue of Democratic Review 1845. He described the annexation of Mexico and Texas by the United States as an act of God, the so-called "theory of destiny". 1846 At the beginning of the year, when the US Congress debated the Oregon issue, Massachusetts * * * and Party Senator Robert C. Winthrop formally used the word "fate" in the congressional forum. Since then, "the theory of destiny" has become a majestic banner for the US government to expand its territory.

Another theory of American expansionism is racial superiority. They think that the Anglo-Saxons are the best people in the world and the darling of God. In the early colonial period, Richard Hacklewitt, a British official in charge of organizing immigration, asserted that the Anglo-Saxons were doomed to occupy and develop the new continent. No country in the world can undertake such a huge task. Albert beveridge, a US Congressman, said publicly before instigating the war against the Philippines: "Did God choose us as his people just to watch us sit here brooding and narcissistic? Absolutely not! He hopes that we can become the masters of the world and establish a new order in a chaotic place. " Roosevelt Sr wrote in 1897 that English-speaking races should rule South Africa. America should rule the western hemisphere. Successive American governments used the so-called racial aristocratic bloodline theory to invade and expand unscrupulously.

With the one-sided and extreme Christian culture, the United States has become a country that advocates violence. Fighting violence with violence is the main theme of American culture. When resolving disputes, the first thing that comes to mind is to resort to force unilaterally. In the United States, weapons manufacturers and sellers are the most profitable and influential industries. According to American statistics, there are more than 300,000 people engaged in the arms business in the United States, and there are as many as 6,543,800+7,000 gun shops nationwide, with an annual turnover of 5 million. Although shootings, robberies and murders continue to happen year after year, the number of guns held by Americans is increasing year by year. The United States has a population of a little over 300 million and nearly 300 million guns. Many people hold more than 1 gun. Americans buy an average of 7 billion bullets a year, which rose to 9 billion in 2008. In the same year, 14 180 Americans died in the shooting. Sixteenth President abraham lincoln, twentieth President james garfield, twenty-fifth President william mckinley and thirty-fifth President john fitzgerald kennedy were all assassinated. The 40th President ronald wilson reagan was also assassinated and injured. The famous black leader Martin Luther King was also shot. Shootings that cause death and injury are frequent in all parts of the United States. 20121214 in February, a shooting tragedy that shocked the whole world occurred in Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, USA, killing 28 people, including 20 children. However, Obama's gun control proposal was strongly opposed by arms dealers. Their theory is that only by owning more guns can shooting incidents be prevented! What a ridiculous and terrible fallacy this is! Reminiscent of the above-mentioned phenomenon that the president who started the war is easy to be re-elected, it is enough to show that Americans have deep-rooted war genes in their bones.

Great economic benefits can be obtained by using the shortcut of war, which is the historical and economic reason why the United States keeps waging wars.

Since the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Americans have become the only economic and military power in the world. The biggest secret is war. The war brought great economic benefits to Americans. But also a shortcut to develop the economy with the shortest time, the lowest cost and the highest efficiency. It can be said: when the cannon rings, there are two thousand gold!

At that time, groups of Europeans, Wan Li all the way to America, killed hundreds of millions of indigenous people, robbed other people's land and established a new country. It also seized a large area of land in North America through war, and its territory expanded from hundreds of thousands of square kilometers at the time of the founding of the People's Republic to nearly10 million square kilometers, making it one of the countries with the largest land area in the world; In World War I, the United States made huge profits by selling arms and entering the war at the last minute. Jump from debtor countries to creditor countries. Wall Street has replaced London as the world's financial center, and the United States has become the world's number one economic and military power, replacing Britain as the world's hegemon and playing a leading role in international politics. In World War II, the United States did the same thing again. Under the guise of neutrality, he made an arms deal with the warring parties and made a fortune economically. If it weren't for Pearl Harbor, it's hard to say whether the United States would go to war. If you go to war, you will wait for both sides to lose and grab the fruits of victory. After the war, the United States owned 50% of the world's wealth and the largest military force in the world. Relying on its absolute economic and military advantages, the United States can promote the establishment of the United Nations, firmly control it and establish its own political hegemony. The convening of the Bretton Woods Conference linked the currencies of all countries in the world to the US dollar, making the US dollar the main means of international payment, establishing the hegemonic position of the US dollar, and also making the US dollar a powerful tool for seeking world hegemony and promoting interventionism after the war.

Since war can create wealth for the United States, the United States regards war as an economic work. It is as natural and necessary for the United States to wage war abroad as it is to invest in road construction at home. The war economy is an important pillar of the American economy. Among the top 100 military enterprises in the world, the United States accounts for 38, accounting for more than one third, and among the top ten, the United States accounts for 7, which shows how huge the scale of American military enterprises is. The industrial chain driven by these huge military enterprises is even more amazing, involving almost all industries in the United States. If there is no war, once American military enterprises stop production, the entire American economy will almost be paralyzed. Since the United States launched the war as its economic investment, the investment certainly requires a return, so after the Iraq war, Iraq's oil revenue was firmly controlled by the US military.

The practice of war has made Americans realize that war can make them rich, get rich quickly and get rid of the economic crisis. Therefore, when the United States thinks it is profitable or its interests are hurt, the first choice Americans habitually make is war.

Imperialism is about to compete for world hegemony, which is the social and class essence of America's constant war.

The struggle for hegemony in the United States began in the United States. Before and after the British came to America. There are Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Since Britain 13 colony established the United States independently, American expansionism began to spread. /kloc-In the middle of 0/9th century, after the United States seized Louisiana from the French, Florida from Spain, and annexed more than half of Mexico, the United States turned its attention to the whole America. Trying to drive away other powers and monopolize the United States. /kloc-at the end of 0/8/at the beginning of 0/9, on the one hand, European countries were turned upside down by Napoleon, and other countries formed holy alliance to compete with the French army; On the other hand, encouraged by the French Revolution, the bourgeois revolution broke out in European countries. In this situation, some European colonial countries in Latin America took the opportunity to launch a revolutionary movement against colonialism and strive for independence. Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Brazil gained independence. European countries are unwilling to lose their colonies and try to interfere in Latin America. In order to protect its interests in the United States, Britain tried to unite the United States and its allies against Europe. In order to monopolize the United States, Americans pushed out European powers, including Britain, and never cooperated with Britain. At that time, American President Monroe published the Monroe Declaration, which later became "Monroe Doctrine". The main content of Monroe Doctrine is: America is America's America, and Europe is not allowed to interfere in American affairs. Although Monroe Doctrine was put forward, it did not play much role because the strength of the United States was far from being able to compete with the European powers at that time. However, with the strengthening of American power, Monroe Doctrine has become the theoretical basis and strategic policy for the United States to dominate the Americas and interfere in the affairs of American countries.

In the 65438+80s, in order to exclude Britain, the United States advocated the establishment of Pan-American Organization. 1889, the United States convened a meeting of American countries and 18 countries in Washington, and put forward the deceptive slogan of "the interests of the American people are the same" and established the "American Union" (190 1 was renamed the Pan-American Union). This is a key step for the United States to dominate the western hemisphere.

1898, in order to capture the colony of Spain, an old colonial country in decline, the United States took advantage of the prospect of victory in the war of independence between Cuba and the Philippines and provoked the Spanish-American war on the pretext that warships were bombed. As a result, the United States seized Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines from Spain, and Cuba actually became a "protectorate" of the United States. The Spanish-American War was the first imperialist war to carve up the world again.

After the Spanish-American War, the United States alternately pursued the "big stick policy" and "dollar diplomacy" toward Latin America, which is an imperialist policy of preemptively interfering in the internal affairs of Latin American countries on the pretext of protecting the interests of American companies and preventing other big countries from interfering in Latin American affairs. The occupation of the Panama Canal is an outstanding example of implementing the "big stick policy". "Jin Yuan Diplomacy" made American capital penetrate into Latin America in large quantities, enslaved and exploited local people, and turned the whole Latin America into the backyard of the United States.

/kloc-from the end of 0/9 to the beginning of the 20th century, the United States developed to the stage of imperialism. In order to obtain more markets and raw materials, the United States turned its attention to the world. However, looking around, the world has been carved up. From 1884 to 1900, Britain occupied 3.7 million square miles, while France and Germany occupied 3.6 million square miles and 800,000 square miles respectively. The whole African continent, except Libya and Ethiopia, has become a colony of European powers. Asia covers an area of 65,438+06,865,438+00,000 square miles, with at least 9.44 million square miles ruled by European powers, including 6.496 million square miles under Russian colonial rule, 6.5438+0998 square miles under British colonial rule, 587,000 square miles and 248,000 square miles under Dutch and French colonial rule, and under British colonial rule.

If you want to take meat from other big countries, there is only war. After the United States expanded its territory to Asia through the war against Spain. /kloc-0 annexed Hawaii in July, 898.1In July, 899, the United States occupied wake island, carved up Samoa islands with the German army, and acquired Ira Island and Pago-Pago Port in East Samoa, which had great military strategic position.

At the beginning of the 20th century, China, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Nepal and other countries, although nominally independent, actually became semi-colonies. Western powers are speeding up the pace of carve-up.

Tian Bei, the then American ambassador to China, believed that if the great powers were allowed to carve up China, the United States would lose this "largest market in the world".

Therefore, on September 6th, 1899 and July 3rd, 1900, US Secretary of State john hay issued "open the door" notes to Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy and France twice, and put forward that "all countries in the world can obtain equal and just conditions" under the guise of "safeguarding China's territorial and administrative integrity. This is famous. The implementation of the "open door" policy marks a new stage of American policy toward China, that is, from the long-term traditional policy of "sharing a share" behind British gunboats to the policy of pursuing an independent imperialist power.

1911April, a four-nation banking group composed of the United States, Britain, France and Germany signed a monetary loan agreement with China, and in May of the same year, a Huguang loan agreement was signed. Began to join the ranks of carving up and colonizing China.

Then the United States took advantage of the two world wars, and by selling arms to both sides, it went to war in the case of mutual losses and gained political, economic and military benefits around the world. In two unprecedented world wars, the United States was the only and biggest beneficiary among the world powers.

From1965438+after the outbreak of World War I on August 4, 2004, the United States conducted trade with the warring parties. From 19 14 to 19 16, American exports to Europe soared from1500 million dollars to 5.5 billion dollars. During the war, European countries' exports decreased, and the United States quickly filled the vacuum in this market, and exports also surged from 2.5 billion to 5.5 billion. During the first world war, the United States accepted a large number of orders from various countries. From June 19 14 to June 19 17, the US foreign trade surplus increased from 430 million US dollars to 3.56 billion US dollars. From 19 15, the American economy, which was very depressed before the war, entered a five-year "war prosperity" period.

On April 6, 2007, the United States officially declared war on Germany, because it intercepted a secret message and learned that Germany had promised to help Mexico recapture three states, including New Mexico. Not only did the United States enter the war late, but its domestic production capacity was not damaged and its military expenditure was lower than that of other big countries. Britain's war expenditure accounts for 32% of its national wealth, France accounts for 30%, Germany accounts for 22%, and the United States only accounts for 9%. Less loss, the biggest profit. By 19 19, more than 20 countries in the world borrowed from the United States, and the "allies" borrowed from the United States 10 billion dollars, of which Britain and France borrowed from the United States 4 billion dollars and 3 billion dollars respectively. The United States has become the largest creditor country and the largest capital exporter in the world. America's gold reserves increased from $700 million in 19 13 to $4.5 billion in 1930, accounting for 40% of the world's gold reserves, and the world financial center began to shift from London to Wall Street.

1On July 7, 937, Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, and the Second World War began. On September 1939 and 1 day, the German army invaded Poland, and the Second World War began in an all-round way. This is an unprecedented war, which has brought great disasters to the people of the world. There are 6 1 countries and regions that have participated in the war successively, accounting for 80% of the world population, that is,1700 million people were involved in this war, including 1 1000 million people in the army and about 60 million people died. Direct military expenditure reached $65,438+35.2 million, accounting for 60% to 70% of the total national income of the belligerent countries; Economic losses exceeded $4 trillion. The United States has once again become the biggest beneficiary. 1935 August 3 1 Although the US Congress passed the legislation of China. For a long time, the United States has done business with both warring parties. In the same year, Italy invaded Ethiopia in 654381October 3. During the period of 65438+ 10, American oil exports to Italy increased by 1 times, and tripled in June, 165438+ 10. The United States is the main supplier of strategic materials for Japan's war of aggression against China. During the period of 1937, the United States exported about $289 million to Japan, of which four strategic materials, oil, refined oil, scrap steel and raw cotton, were 142 million, accounting for about12 of the total export. Until 194 1 65438+February 7th, Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and the US Pacific fleet in the harbor was almost wiped out. The next day the United States declared war on Japan. From March 194 1 year to August 1945, the United States provided about $40 billion in leased materials (including transportation services) and obtained about $7.3 billion in strategic materials, raw materials and services from other anti-fascist allies. President Roosevelt concluded that the benefits brought by the lease law to the United States "cannot be evaluated by how many dollars, because the calculation should include both human life and material resources." President Truman said: "The money spent on leasing has undoubtedly saved many American lives. Every Russian, British or Australian soldier who gets equipment and goes to war through leasing has reduced the war danger of our youth. "

Stimulated by the war demand, American production rose rapidly and wartime economic prosperity reappeared. From 1938 to 1943, the average annual growth rate of American industrial production is as high as 12.7%. After World War II, the proportion of American industrial output value in capitalist countries rose from 42% in 1937 to 60% in 1945. The proportion of foreign trade increased from 13% to 32%; The United States has mastered two-thirds of the world's gold reserves, and the dollar is linked to gold, making the United States a "Jinyuan Empire". The United States has seized and monopolized important raw material resources in the world. 1945, the United States controlled 46.3% of the oil resources, 50% ~ 60% of the copper mines and most of the uranium in the capitalist world (excluding the United States), while aluminum, manganese and tin accounted for1/4 ~12 of the 22 important minerals produced in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The United States has established nearly 500 military bases around the world. 1On April 6, 946, US President Truman declared in a speech: "The United States today is a powerful country, and no country is stronger than it ... This means that if we have such power, we must provoke the burden of leadership and take responsibility."

After the war, the United Nations led by the United States was established, and the United States achieved world political hegemony. However, in the face of the rise of the Eastern bloc headed by the Soviet Union. Americans are scared to death and afraid of bringing disaster to capitalism, so they become the leading brothers in an attempt to contain and put out the fire of socialism. The methods used are still war and military intervention. In order to resist the "serious threat of imperialism", he intervened in the Greek civil war, interfered in the reorganization of the Turkish army, put out the Greek people's revolution and controlled the Turkish government. Violating the Cairo Declaration, monopolizing Japan, failing to liquidate Japan's war crimes and cultivating Japan as an ally against the capitalist world. Send troops to invade North China, March into Vietnam on a large scale, and try to prevent the * * * production party from taking power, and contain the new people and the Republic, and so on.

In the struggle for world hegemony with the Soviet Union, the United States and the Soviet Union fought tit for tat and tried their best to expand their sphere of influence. Following the Cuban missile crisis,1March 23, 983, President Reagan put forward and implemented the "strategic defense plan", that is, the "Star Wars" plan according to the weakness of the Soviet Union. Engage in a large-scale arms race. By 1992, the United States and the Soviet Union had 9862 nuclear warheads and 10909 nuclear warheads respectively. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher believes that Reagan "seized the weakness of the Soviet Union's concentrated development of military power at that time, while the material foundation in other aspects was weak, and finally dragged down the Soviet Union by resolutely developing the strategic defense plan."

After the cold war, the United States became the only superpower and achieved economic, political and military hegemony. In 2000, the proportion of American GDP in world GDP rose from 24.5% in 1990 to 3 1.5%. American R&D investment accounts for 45% of the world's R&D investment, which is equivalent to the sum of R&D investment of several other western countries. American military spending accounts for 4 1% of the world's total military spending, which is equivalent to the sum of the military spending of other big countries. The international competitiveness of the United States has ranked first in the world for nine consecutive years. Germany's Der Spiegel said: "In the whole history of mankind, no country has firmly controlled the world through its politics, tanks and products like the United States today."

Being in a unique position in the world, the United States does whatever it wants. As a world policeman, in order to strengthen his hegemonic position, he often uses force when dealing with international relations. Invade Panama and bring President noriega to the United States. Launched the Gulf War, bombed Yugoslavia, invaded Haiti, invaded Afghanistan, and occupied Iraq on a large scale. The frequency of using troops is unprecedented, which has brought disasters to the people of the victimized countries in successive years of war. As a result, new bases have been established in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Balkans.

2 1 century, the capitalist crisis led by the United States continued, and the economy went from bad to worse. The militaristic United States was overwhelmed and had to carry out strategic contraction. But the tradition of expansionism and the nature of dominating the world have not changed. With the rise of China and a number of emerging countries, the United States, worried about its hegemony, shifted its strategic center to the Asia-Pacific region, and at the same time used the US dollar as a weapon to fight currency wars and seize the wealth of other countries; While deploying a military encirclement around China, it has wooed countries with territorial disputes with China and frequently conducted military exercises against China in an attempt to distract China and curb China's development. I hope the sun will never set, and I will always dominate the world.