AMERICA, F*CK YEAH! - John Bolton Edition
WAR WAR WAR!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQJiSWB8D8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnDrEIaBGcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGx2ZxC_o8g
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/map-shows-places-world-where-us-military-operates-180970997/
In the end, if the US doesn't insist on being the big bully, someone else will. Already a Carrier Strike Group and Bomber Group heading towards Iran along with the Trump administration trying to build a hard case to intervene in Venezuela among other things. Don't forget the 25% tariff hike on China coming this Friday.
'U.S. Southern Command permanently controls none of the U.S. Navy’s 11 aircraft carrier and few other major forces. But there’s a good reason for that. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1973 backed Chilean general Augusto Pinochet in his military coup against the socialist government of Salvador Allende.
Pinochet’s brutal, 17-year rule marked an inflection point in U.S. relations with Latin America. “It was one of the more notorious of many interventions by the United States in Latin America,” The Economist in 2018 explained, “starting with a war against Mexico in 1846, including other coups during the Cold War and culminating in the invasion of Panama in 1989 to topple Manuel Noriega, a former American intelligence asset turned ally of drug traffickers.”
This legacy forged enduring and widespread resentment. It has made non-intervention in the affairs of other states Latin governments’ default diplomatic position, attenuated only timidly by the adoption of the defence of human rights and democracy in the Inter-American Democratic Charter of 2001.
This history explains why the region expressed alarm when Donald Trump mused a year ago [in 2017] about military action to overthrow the dictatorial government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. The main Latin American governments refused to recognise a fraudulent election in May [2018] in which Mr. Maduro re-elected himself. But they argue that yanqui threats merely strengthen him. They trust in diplomatic pressure and opposition within the country to restore democracy.'