The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

  • 50 years of orange disaster... Because of imperialism and american exceptionalism. By exceptionalism, I mean an idea that USA is a morally superior country for historical, ideological, and other reasons.

  • It isn't new news that the effects of agent orange are largely unsubstantiated. It became political and so now we need to believe it, but it's largely unscientific.

    https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2016/03/latest-and-fi...

  • The absolute hubris of dumping that much of a chemical like that onto farmland continues to astound me.

  • The United States dropped more than two million tons of bombs on Laos between 1964 and 1973, including a large number of cluster munitions [1].

    More than 50 years after the war, bombs still threaten the local citizens[2].

    During the construction of the China-Laos Railway, Chinese builders spent a great deal of effort removing leftover bombs along the route[3].

    the destruction of Japan Abandoned Chemical Weapons had been delayed *4 times*(SHAME ON YOU JAPS) [4].

    [1] https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/migration... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/27/i... [3] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202307/1294231.shtml [4] https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg_663340/jks_665232/kjfywj...

  • After battling my bougainvillea this afternoon, I’m about to resort to chemical warfare. Why is that plant popular, and why isn’t there an “Bougainvillea haters” Facebook group?

  • this is absolutely heartbreaking.

  • See also, depleted uranium in Iraq. Iraqi mothers and their children will continue to suffer the costs of this heinous war for decades.

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