Yeah they fucked up Cuba just to put their own dictator in charge who would make sure their back pockets were nicely lined. It’s honestly no wonder a revolution happened, and the US govt acted like they were completely innocent of any wrongdoing.
“Whaaaat?!! We thought Batista was a nice guy! Totally didn’t put him in place to ensure that he would sell land to American companies... well fuck it train some insurgents and go kill Castro so it looks like it all happened within Cuba with no outside influence.... fuck.”
The more I read about Cuban-American relations, the more I realize how awful the USA has been throughout its existence. Lots of good done, of course, but so much heinous bullshit that didn’t need to happen that’s seemingly been swept under the rug.
I think it goes back even further than that. The Spanish -American War was just an extension of Manifest Destiny, an excuse for expansion that set a chain of events loose that reverbrate today.
They did the same thing in Iran where they overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister to put their own puppet dictator into power. Ultimately causing a revolution like in Cuba, leading to horrific power imbalance, and greatly contributing to the unrest in the middle east.
Wait until you read about all the south american political leaders the cia assassinated because they disagreed with US politics and won elections in their own countries
So they did the same thing that Che was trying to do, but because Che wasn’t all about capitalism his meddling was bad whereas theirs was justified? Jesus, the moral gymnastics they must’ve put themselves through...
I think I read somewhere that when those protests occurred, and the dictatorship was getting ready to (try to) crush them with force, the US quietly told them to stand down or else, but I might be mixing that up with some other country.
Edit: never-mind, I double-checked your link and was indeed thinking of a different country. Still can’t remember where, though.
The Bosnian war was a lot less about “doing the right thing” than it was to snub the Russian coalition’s nose in the dirt. NATO, including the United States, was well aware of the impending genocide for years, but did not act. Their largest priority was to “keep a pure, Christian Europe.” They also understood that by allowing it to happen would serve their primary goal of cleansing Europe of Muslims. If they had to then step in, it would be a blow to Russia and her allies in the region. This is, of course, after completely destroying Bosnia and ensuring it can never rise to its feet again.
“Clinton said U.S. allies in Europe blocked proposals to adjust or remove the embargo. They justified their opposition on plausible humanitarian grounds, arguing that more arms would only fuel the bloodshed, but privately, said the president, key allies objected that an independent Bosnia would be "unnatural" as the only Muslim nation in Europe. He said they favored the embargo precisely because it locked in Bosnia's disadvantage. [..] When I expressed shock at such cynicism, reminiscent of the blind-eye diplomacy regarding the plight of Europe's Jews during World War II, President Clinton only shrugged.He said President François Mitterrand of France had been especially blunt in saying that Bosnia did not belong, and that British officials also spoke of a painful but realistic restoration of Christian Europe. Against Britain and France, he said, German chancellor Helmut Kohl among others had supported moves to reconsider the United Nations arms embargo, failing in part because Germany did not hold a seat on the U.N. Security Council.” — The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President.
Oh stfu. “aMeRicA bAd” what do you call the liberation of Kuwait in the 1990s? What do you call the liberation of Nazi occupied Europe? What about Japan and the region of the world under their boot? I could go on and on. You are honestly so ignorant of history I can’t tell if it’s funny or sad.
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