Time for US politicians to know that their fabricated lies will always go bankrupt one day, and their national credit will go bankrupt.(Photo by China Daily)

By Jia Zhuang

The book, Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse, a professor of history at Princeton University and fellow Princeton historian Julian E. Zelizer, was published in the US recently.

The book brings together the discourses of more than 20 historical or political scholars from famous western universities mainly from the US and explores a series of erroneous views affecting the domestic and foreign affairs of the contemporary US.

They believe that there are many "legends", "myths" or "lies" in the US that cannot withstand scrutiny. These fallacies are widely distributed in the political, economic, cultural and social fields, and have become the tool of American politicians, businesses and social activists in infighting, covering up historical crimes, and beautifying overseas operations and also bring serious hidden dangers to the US.

Although it advertises itself as the "world police" and "democracy defender", the US has already fallen into a crisis of truth. At the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton encouraged the use of cyber warfare and information warfare to incite protests in Russia. Clinton said that hackers can use the Internet to support people to protest on the streets of Russia and that's what happened during the Arab Spring. These words also verified the absurdity and terror of the US government. It can be said that the US has long been a maker and spreader of lies, and an "Empire of Lies."

In addition, there are many facts that can be used as evidence. The book mentioned that the lie that "the US is not an empire" is to wrap the US military intervention in a halo of benevolence. It is very fair to judge the US in this way.

Back then, the US used a vial of washing powder as evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and launched a war, resulting in the deaths of about 200,000 to 250,000 Iraqi civilians. Such human tragedies still make people shudder. There are incidents that are even more absurd: the video staged by the "White Helmets" organization has also become "evidence" of the air strikes on Syria, which once again took countless lives.

Lies have even become a "consensus". Previously, a 15-year-old girl, Nayirah, had testified in the US Congress as a Kuwaiti volunteer that "Iraqi troops almost certainly had not stolen hospital incubators and left hundreds of Kuwaiti babies to die." But what is surprising is that Nayirah is the daughter of Saud Al-Sabah, the then Kuwaiti ambassador to the US. This absurd testimony was organized by an American strategic consulting company.

However, the American media turned a blind eye to the truth and instead exaggerated the "testimony". This also confirms the infamous statement of former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, "We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment!"

A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little. The New York Times once commented, "The US has lost its credibility." German writer Michael Lueders also revealed in his book The Sanctimonious Superpower: Why We Need To Step Out Of The US Shadow that the US government is very good at selecting and distorting facts, deliberately narrowing news sources, and polarizing people's judgments to confuse right and wrong, influence and manipulate the public judgment.

In 2022, a report by Edelman, a world-renowned public relations consulting company, shows that the American people's trust in the government is only 39 percent. The US makes the whole world pay for American-style hegemony for the sake of selfish interests. The hypocrisy and absurdity of the Empire of Lies are bound to make people laugh.

Editor's note: Originally published on opinion.huanqiu.com, this article is translated from Chinese into English and edited by the China Military Online. The information and opinions in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of eng.chinamil.com.cn.