Ironically, one of the clearest invasions wasn’t even on the list backing up the meme. Security Council resolution of disapproval failed due to a U.S. veto. While the invasion followed a request by five members of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution of disapproval. In all, 18 American forces were killed and 116 were wounded. 25, 1983, with the mission of protecting American nationals and assisting "in the restoration of law and order." A force of about 5,000 American troops and 300 from nearby islands prevailed, evacuating several hundred Americans, and restoring a representative form of government. Following a power struggle on the small Caribbean nation, President Ronald Reagan sent troops into Grenada on Oct. All were done without United Nations support and involved ground troops. Three instances would qualify as "invasions" under Arend’s framework without much argument. Three cases clearly can be considered "invasions" There are two dozen examples here, so it’s going to take us some time to go through them all. Given those parameters, we went through the Facebook post’s examples, categorizing the countries from most like an invasion to least like an invasion.
The charter permits military action in the case of "self-defense if an armed attack occurs" or if the U.N. It didn’t qualify as a permitted exception for the use of force under the U.N.Charter, which says in Article 2, Paragraph 4 that member countries shall refrain "from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state." He said an "invasion" should meet each of the following three conditions: When we asked Georgetown University professor of government and foreign service Anthony Clark Arend for his advice, he proposed a standard we could use to judge the meme’s claim. "The world being what it is, people do not agree on exactly which actions those are." Bromund, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "The basic problem that is that everyone understands that some actions which are ‘invasions’ are nonetheless right and proper, and some are not," said Ted R. "Aggression" and "conquest" are more common, and a variety of international agreements attempt to define them. Several foreign-policy experts told us that while "invaded" is a familiar word in general conversation, it is used much less commonly in international law. And the time span is actually about 30 years, not 20.)īefore we get to the list, which you can view here, we first need to define our terms.
(We should point out the list is misnumbered and actually names 23 nations, not 22. Fortunately, the post that accompanied the meme listed the nations that had been "invaded," along with the years of the purported invasion.
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Russia Does It and Everyone Loses Their Mind," illustrating its point with a photograph of Heath Ledger’s Joker character from Batman movie The Dark Knight.Ī reader asked us to check this claim, so we did. The meme says, "22 Countries Invaded by the U.S. A Facebook meme argues that Americans are pretty two-faced when it comes to Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea.
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