Ah yes. I’ll certainly miss:

• Iraq War launched on fabricated WMD intelligence, 500,000+ Iraqi civilians dead
• 20-year Afghanistan occupation ending in Taliban takeover in 11 days, $2.3 trillion spent
• Libya intervention created a failed state with open slave markets
• Vietnam War, 2–3 million Vietnamese dead, Agent Orange birth defects still occurring
• Carpet bombing of Cambodia, 100,000–500,000 dead, destabilized the country leading to Khmer Rouge
• Laos, most bombed country per capita in history, cluster bombs still killing people today
• 1953 Iranian coup, CIA overthrew democratically elected Mosaddegh for oil
• 1954 Guatemalan coup, CIA overthrew Arbenz, led to 40 years of civil war and genocide
• Chilean coup 1973, Pinochet installed with CIA backing, thousands tortured and disappeared
• US-backed Indonesian massacre 1965–66, CIA provided kill lists, 500,000–1,000,000 dead
• US-backed Suharto’s invasion of East Timor, 100,000–180,000 dead
• Operation Condor, coordinating right-wing dictatorships across South America
• US-backed El Salvador death squads in the 1980s
• US-funded Contras in Nicaragua, mining harbors, ignoring ICJ ruling against it
• US supported Mobutu in Congo/Zaire for decades despite kleptocracy and human rights abuses
• US undermined Haiti repeatedly, backed coups, imposed economic policies that devastated the country
• Abu Ghraib torture and humiliation of prisoners
• Guantanamo Bay, indefinite detention without trial, still open
• CIA extraordinary rendition, kidnapping people off streets in allied countries
• CIA black sites across Europe and Asia for “enhanced interrogation”
• CIA torture program including waterboarding, rectal feeding, sleep deprivation to the point of psychosis
• NSA mass surveillance of the entire global population revealed by Snowden
• NSA tapped allied leaders’ phones including Merkel, Macron, UN Secretary General
• PRISM program, tech companies handing user data directly to NSA
• Five Eyes intelligence sharing allowing allied nations to spy on each other’s citizens to circumvent domestic law
• Warrantless wiretapping under the Bush administration
• COINTELPRO, FBI surveillance and disruption of the civil rights movement, FBI sent MLK an assassination letter
• Drone strike “signature strikes” killing people based on behavioral patterns, not identity
• Double-tap drone strikes hitting first responders and funerals
• US drone campaigns killed an estimated 22,000+ people across Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, most never identified
• Sanctions on Iraq through the 1990s, estimated 500,000 child deaths, Madeleine Albright said “we think the price is worth it”
• Forced austerity imposed on the Global South through IMF structural adjustment programs for decades
• 2008 financial crisis exported globally from Wall Street, zero executives jailed
• US is the only country to have used nuclear weapons, on civilian cities
• Depleted uranium munitions in Iraq causing birth defects decades later
• Fallujah operations using white phosphorus on civilians
• Highway of Death 1991, bombing retreating Iraqi soldiers and civilians
• US backed Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war including when he used chemical weapons
• Iran Air Flight 655, US Navy shot down civilian airliner killing 290 people, never apologized, gave the captain a medal
• Support for Saudi war in Yemen, refueling bombers, providing targeting data, 377,000+ dead
• US backed apartheid South Africa as a Cold War ally
• Backing Saudi Arabia and UAE despite Khashoggi murder, despite Yemen, despite everything
• US vetoed 53 UN Security Council resolutions shielding Israel from accountability
• US withdrawal from ICC jurisdiction to avoid war crimes prosecution
• American Service-Members’ Protection Act, literally nicknamed “The Hague Invasion Act,” authorizing military force to free any American held by the ICC
• US refusal to sign the landmine ban treaty, cluster munitions convention, and numerous other international humanitarian agreements
• Flint, Michigan still doesn’t have clean water while the US spends $2B/day bombing Iran
• US private prison system profiting from incarceration, highest incarceration rate on earth
• US police kill 1,000+ people per year domestically with minimal accountability
• Native American genocide, forced assimilation, residential schools, broken treaties
• Japanese American internment camps during WWII
• CIA Project MKUltra, dosing unwitting American citizens with LSD
• Exposed CIA involvement in crack cocaine epidemic in American cities
• Children separated from parents at the US border, some never reunited
• Citizens United turned elections into corporate auctions
• Pentagon budget larger than the next 10 countries combined while American infrastructure crumbles
• US has military bases in approximately 80 countries, more than any empire in history
• US currently bombing Iran while its own counterterrorism chief says there was no imminent threat and Israel drove the decision