asked for the first time, actually quantified americas interventions abroad. researchers from the military intervention project found that between 1776 and 2019, the u.s. launched almost 400 military interventions. with half of those operations undertaken just in the wake of world war ii, between 1950 and 2019, in fact, over 25% of them actually occurred during the post cold war period. just within the last three decades, around 100 interventions. according to the research, the post 9/11 era has already become the third most militarist ugly active period and all of u.s. history. now, these numbers may come as a shock to some of you, and that s because sadly, most americans seem to live in complete denial about the sheer number of military operations executed abroad by our government, whether it s a republican government or a democratic government. i should be clear, some
taliban took over kabul, the capital the canister. they did that america s longest war would finally come to an end. a new study puts that were on the united states s long history of military interventions almost 400 in total into context. joining me to discuss at all this peter. a professor at the school of journalism of the city college of new york. he s also the editor at large for the jewish currents and msnbc political analyst. doug it is called the binary notebook. peter, thanks for joining me this evening. i want to get your reaction to the top lines from that study. almost 400 military interventions and total with half occurring since world war ii, a quarter since the end of the cold war. wasn t the end of the cold war supposed to bring peace to the
from that country. look, it s still an open argument about whether we should or should not have gone into afghanistan in 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, but no one can seriously deny that those 20 years of war, our longest war, proved to be a tragic, tragic waste of blood and treasure. both american and afghan. we left behind a poverty stricken country in the hands of an undefeated taliban with a number of civilian casualties on the increase and drug production she up as well. every time we end a disastrous war abroad, we say wow, that was a lesson learned. then after the briefest of pauses, we go and do it all again and another country. it s endless war. after almost 250 years and nearly 400 military interventions overseas, i have to ask, has the united states actually learned any lessons? we will discuss that next with
leader of russia, who is clearly playing on his own timetable with his own rules? is there any diplomatic way of dealing with them? i m not optimistic. there s two tracks here, jose, one is the so-called normanly process to deal with. eastern ukraine at the moment i don t think is a formula that would be acceptable to both kyiv and moscow. the other is to deal with security and nato. i don t see a formula that would work. let me give you another scenario, in addition to all the other possible military interventions or quote, unquote, diplomatic solution, this goes on for quite a while. we re all waiting for something decisive to happen. maybe not 140,000 but 50,000 troops park themselves on the border. they see what they can do to weaken ukraine s economy, maybe oust its government. we re all sitting here as though
becomes time to ask but looks as though the united states is done everything it can its capacity to get other allies on board and it certainly seems like the efforts of the aggressions shown by russia have the aggressions shown by russia have the opposite effect of what was intended and need has come together industry to ask, if not militarily industry to ask, if not militarily in the ukraine but in ways to make russia that action. russia that action. what do you think of the russia that action. what do you think of the language russia that action. what do you think of the language is - russia that action. what do you think of the language is coming j russia that action. what do you - think of the language is coming out house or of the state in the past 48 hours? i house or of the state in the past 48 hours? ~ , . ., ., hours? i think it is clear that the messaging hours? i think it is clear that the messaging has hours? i think it is clear that the messaging has changed - hou