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War trauma and social breakdown are increasing suicides among US troops: Analyst

Saturday, 28 September 2019 7:00 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 28 September 2019 7:11 PM ]

This handout image released courtesy of the US Department of Defense shows airmen from the US.Air Force at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, on September 4, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

Trauma from America’s unjustified wars around the world, as well as the social breakdown of the country are among the main reasons leading to the rising number of suicides among US soldiers, says a former US military psychological operations officer.

A recent Pentagon report showed a significant rise in suicide rates among US soldiers.

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Scott Bennett, who in addition to being a former military officer is currently a political commentator, told Press TV in an interview on Friday that US soldiers committed suicide because they were depressed and disillusioned.

He said military personnel were gradually discovering the truth about the so-called US war on terror.

Bennett said the so-called Global War on Terrorism was triggered by a false flag operation "with and by and through American intelligence agencies and American government personnel."

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Bennett said for this reason soldiers, “who are simply told your job is to go forth and conquer countries in the name of regime change," see themselves as fighting an unjustifiable war. “They [the soldiers] see that their homes, their way of life for which many people in the military signed up to fight, signed up to serve, to defend -- these issues, these family members, this homeland -- is not what is being used to justify these military actions.”

Bennett said the false pretense under which Washington plans to capture the world and create a global hegemony has made the soldiers depressed. "These very vulnerable susceptible people, who have entered the military to serve, are discovering that this state of service is really a state of slavery ... causing a severe mental breakdown, psychological trauma, tension” he noted.

Bennett cited drug abuse among US military personnel as another reason for the increase in the number of suicides among angry US soldiers who failed to cope with war.

"They are for the most part very angry, incapable of coping" forcing them to find peace in drugs, he said.

Bennett said the spreading abuse of drugs in the US has not only increased the number of suicide but has also turned the country into a narco-state.

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