Sunday 24 April 2022

US Military Going Green

US President Joe Biden has announced a process is underway to make every military vehicle in the country 'climate friendly' which will come as a comfort to whichever nation America decides is ripe for an invasion in the future because if you are going to be killed by an invading nation, it is nice to know that they are doing it in as green a way as possible.
So the means of delivery may be 'greener' but the weapons will not be anymore environmentally friendly, the citizens of Iraq are still feeling the effects of the Bush/Blair non-WMD's war in 2001, twenty years later they are still dying from the depleted Uranium and 11 million pounds of toxic waste they left polluting the soil and water and is responsible for the large rises in cancer, miscarriages and birth deformities in Iraq since 2001 according to the Iraqi Health Ministry.
The United Nations Environment Program estimates that some 2,000 tons of depleted uranium spread across 1100 locations in Iraq and Cancers in Iraq catapulted from 40 cases for every 100,000 people in 1991 to at 1,600 today so making your tanks and armoured cars zero emission seems a bit of an oxymoron when you are then spreading cancer causing chemicals to all and sundry, those not killed directly by them anyway.
All in all a nice try though but probably the most greenest thing America could do would be to not send it's military to invade nations on spurious reasons in the first place and if they do, their tennis players will not be welcomed at Wimbledon because that will show them invasions in the 21st Century are not tolerated, unless it's by us obviously.

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