The west’s military interventions suggest we live in an increasingly insane world

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If you keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results, it’s a sign of insanity (EPA)

I am not a Putin apologist. Though looking at the horrifying events playing out in Ukraine, I also need to look at the west’s dismal history of foreign policies and military interventions in the name of democracy and freedom.

Since 1945, this makes depressing reading, as America appears to have won only one single intervention, on the small island of Grenada. For the rest, it’s defeats. Yet we don’t see this – or prefer not to see this.

Korea lost, and a stalemate with the north after some 70 years. Cuba, sanctions and stalemate after some 60 years. Vietnam lost too, with 56,000 dead. Cambodia, carpet bombed with countless dead.