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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

You are a very patient man...:-) Personally as an “American to Army” I have come to the conclusion that some people are just not “educable.” There are about a dozen of these currently on FR and I never respond to ANY of their posts.

But, for those uninformed who may be unaware, but still interested in understanding truth here is a link to Wiki’s info on U.S. involvement in “regime change, coup de ta and color revolutions.” It, too, is “eye opening”...:-)

As an aside the United States currently has 750 U.S. military bases in 80 countries.

As Pepe Escobar outlined in his one hour interview we are in the midst of dramatic global change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

United States involvement in regime change
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of several foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars. At the onset of the 20th century, the United States shaped or installed governments in many countries around the world, including neighbors Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

During World War II, the United States helped overthrow many Nazi German or Imperial Japanese puppet regimes. Examples include regimes in the Philippines, Korea, the Eastern portion of China, and much of Europe. United States forces were also instrumental in ending the rule of Adolf Hitler over Germany and of Benito Mussolini over Italy.

In the aftermath of World War II, the U.S. government struggled with the Soviet Union for global leadership, influence and security within the context of the Cold War. Under the Eisenhower administration, the U.S. government feared that national security would be compromised by governments propped by the Soviet Union’s own involvement in regime change and promoted the domino theory, with later presidents following Eisenhower’s precedent.[1] Subsequently, the United States expanded the geographic scope of its actions beyond traditional area of operations, Central America and the Caribbean. Significant operations included the United States and United Kingdom-orchestrated 1953 Iranian coup d’état, the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion targeting Cuba, and support for the overthrow of Sukarno by General Suharto in Indonesia. In addition, the U.S. has interfered in the national elections of countries, including Italy in 1948,[2] the Philippines in 1953, and Japan in the 1950s and 1960s[3][4] as well as Lebanon in 1957.[5] According to one study, the U.S. performed at least 81 overt and covert known interventions in foreign elections during the period 1946–2000.[6] According to another study, the U.S. engaged in 64 covert and six overt attempts at regime change during the Cold War.[1]

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the United States has led or supported wars to determine the governance of a number of countries. Stated U.S. aims in these conflicts have included fighting the War on Terror, as in the Afghan War, or removing weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), as in the Iraq War.


53 posted on 11/25/2022 9:11:23 AM PST by Cathi
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To: Cathi
--- "You are a very patient man"

Thank you for a kind word.

My brother-in-law -- sadly a Democrat in another state -- presses me to play Republican to his Democrat. I refuse, for I often say I am to the "right" of the Tea Party, wholly against debt and muchly against war when at all possible. Given the growth in the federal debt to now more than $32 trillion dollars -- all done in my opinion through hoaxes like Covid, and cons like some climate emergency, and wars which have not been won but lost or those like Syria which continue -- far too many Republican senators have rubberstamped Democrats and the many increases in the debt limit.

That which cannot continue, will not continue. It requires patience to put up with those for whom the simplistic picture is the only one in a very complex world. Their "religion" is really "I'm right and you're wrong" even as they profess some other.

57 posted on 11/25/2022 9:31:32 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow Government)
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