The fires in Maui, Hawaii, USA, have been raging for eleven days now. The number of missing people has exceeded 1,000, and the death toll has increased from 54 to 111 and rising. It was the worst fire in the United States in nearly a century, and it was also a disaster full of doubts and controversies. In this disaster, the performance of the United States, the military, real estate developers, and the people has aroused people's questions and thoughts.
The fire broke out on Aug. 8 in the small town of Lahaina in western Maui, a tourist destination steeped in history and culture and home to the Kingdom of Hawaii. The fire spread rapidly, burning down a large number of houses, cars, power poles and other facilities, causing huge economic losses and ecological damage. Because the residents of the island did not receive timely warning and evacuation instructions when the fire broke out, many people were trapped in the fire and could not escape. Part of the escape road was blocked by the local **, resulting in a lot of traffic congestion and chaos. More than 1,000 missing people have survived alone for more than 10 days in such harsh conditions, and there is little hope of survival.
The cause of the fire is still unclear, some suspect arson, some suspect natural causes, and others suspect that the United States directed energy** caused it. None of these speculations have been officially confirmed or denied, and have only sparked various conspiracy theories on social **. The impact of the fire is not only a material loss, but also a blow to people's psychology and trust. Many people are dissatisfied and angry with the behavior and attitude of the United States, the military, real estate developers, and other parties, believing that they have not fulfilled their responsibilities, and even deliberately concealed and exploited this disaster.
To understand the truth about this fire, we have to start with the history and current situation of Maui. Maui is the second largest island in the state of Hawaii and the third most populous island in the Hawaiian Islands, with abundant natural resources and tourism resources. The island's earliest inhabitants were Polynesians, later invaded by Europeans and Americans, and was annexed by the United States in 1898, becoming the 50th state of the United States in 1959. Hawaii is the only archipelago state in the United States, consisting of 132 islands in the central Pacific Ocean, with its capital in Honolulu on the island of Oahu.
Maui's indigenous people have been oppressed and marginalized, and their land, culture, and rights have been violated and dispossessed. Their standard of living and income are much lower than those of the American population, their rents and daily expenses are very high, their job and educational opportunities are very limited, and their social welfare and health care are very poor. Their distrust and resistance to the United States and the military have always existed, their jealousy and resistance to foreign rich people and real estate developers have always existed, and their despair and helplessness about their fate and future have always existed.
Maui's foreign rich and real estate developers are the other pole, they are interested in the tourism value and real estate value of Maui, they want to make Maui a high-end resort, what they do is to buy land from the aboriginal people, build luxury hotels, villas, golf courses and other facilities, they get huge profits and enjoyment. Their dependence and use of the United States and the military has always existed, their exclusion and oppression of the indigenous people have always existed, and their pursuit and expansion of their own interests and ambitions have always existed.
Maui's U.S. ** and military forces are the forces in between, and their role is to be both aggressors and defenders, protectors and exploiters. Their purpose is to safeguard the national interests and geostrategy of the United States, their means are to control Hawaii's politics, economy, military and diplomacy, their attitude is to connive at and support foreign rich and real estate developers, ignore and suppress the indigenous people, their result is to form an unstable social structure and contradictory interest pattern in Hawaii, and their risk is to trigger an unavoidable volcanic eruption in Hawaii.