The World Has Been In a Perpetual State of War Since I was Born: Cui Bono?

Adebayo Adeniran
5 min readApr 25, 2023

The American military industrial complex or humanity.

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My mother was born on the 20th of January 1945 and I came into this on the 29th of November 1977; thirty-two years after the end of the second world war.

While it is worth pointing out that the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Republic were right in standing up to Hitler’s third Reich which had committed the worst crime imaginable against humanity, I do believe that we are all paying a huge price for America’s victory over the Nazis.

Why have I written this?

The American military industrial complex is almost exclusively responsible for nearly every war which has taken place in the world since 1945.

And I will try to explain the reasons for this view.

In China, you had the nationalists on the one side, who were backed by the Americans going head to head with the communists who were backed by the Soviets.

The communists led by Mao Zedong won the civil war in 1949, owing to the supreme brilliance and tactics of Chairman Mao.

What happened subsequently in Asia by way of the Korean and Vietnam wars must be attributed to America’s deep seated fears about the specter of…

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

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