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>China has a big us against the world mentality And Americans don't? Probably the most paranoid people with such limited understanding of the surrounding world

• ars 11y ago
  No, they don't. They might have "Americans are best", but not Us against the World.
  • 932874 11y ago
    I'll guess your country isn't on this list. > Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government) China 1949 to early 1960s Albania 1949-53 East Germany 1950s Iran 1953 * Guatemala 1954 * Costa Rica mid-1950s Syria 1956-7 Egypt 1957 Indonesia 1957-8 British Guiana 1953-64 * Iraq 1963 * North Vietnam 1945-73 Cambodia 1955-70 * Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 * Ecuador 1960-63 * Congo 1960 * France 1965 Brazil 1962-64 * Dominican Republic 1963 * Cuba 1959 to present Bolivia 1964 * Indonesia 1965 * Ghana 1966 * Chile 1964-73 * Greece 1967 * Costa Rica 1970-71 Bolivia 1971 * Australia 1973-75 * Angola 1975, 1980s Zaire 1975 Portugal 1974-76 * Jamaica 1976-80 * Seychelles 1979-81 Chad 1981-82 * Grenada 1983 * South Yemen 1982-84 Suriname 1982-84 Fiji 1987 * Libya 1980s Nicaragua 1981-90 * Panama 1989 * Bulgaria 1990 * Albania 1991 * Iraq 1991 Afghanistan 1980s * Somalia 1993 Yugoslavia 1999-2000 * Ecuador 2000 * Afghanistan 2001 * Venezuela 2002 * Iraq 2003 * Haiti 2004 * Somalia 2007 to present Honduras 2009 Libya 2011 * Syria 2012 Ukraine 2014 * http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-people...
    • hartpuff 11y ago
      And they use Fahrenheit. (We are now three posts away from a HandEgg jpeg.)
    • jonnybgood 11y ago
      That list is very suspect. Ukrainian government saw an overthrow by the US in 2014? Is it referring to the Ukrainian revolution[0]? This list requires some citations. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_revolution
      • 932874 11y ago
        William Blum's book on the topic is only updated through 2003 but would be a good starting point. http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526 http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-II... Re: Ukraine. Overthrowing a democratically-elected government is a revolution or a coup depending on who you ask. That the US favored a "transition" and was a major power broker isn't really disputed. It's interesting that there's no mention of Victoria Nuland, US ambassador to Ukraine, in that wiki article.
    • dragandj 11y ago
      > Yugoslavia 1999-2000 * First, it is not Yugoslavia, but Serbia. Second, USA has nothing to do with it. They only gave financial and logistic support to the opposition for political activities against the dictatorship. Should it be mentioned that the dictatorship that was overthrown had previously ruined and robbed its citizens, and had only a minority support of the citizens? Should also be mentioned that the dictatorship was brutally using police and army against its own citizens, killed political opponents, falsified several election results, push the country through several wars, etc...
    • nl 11y ago
      Australia 1973-75 I'm not an expert on all of these, but I do know quite a lot about the Great Dismissal[1]. No credible person puts any weight to any theory regarding the US/CIA being involved in any significant way with the this. Wikipedia's coverage is fine (although it is also worth noting that the CIA funded just about every conservative group around during that period, so anyone who was a member was open to the same accusations Kerr was). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis#Dismissal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...