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US hegemony was 1945-present, which is important context for interpreting the grandparent comment and also the list. Much of that list predates 1945. You can a
by graeme 8y ago
US hegemony was 1945-present, which is important context for interpreting the grandparent comment and also the list.
Much of that list predates 1945. You can also exclude any internal repression when considering the effects of US hegemony, which is experienced only by people outside the US.
There's still a LOT to account for. Vietnam and Iraq being the two biggest.
But, on the other hand, 70 years, a couple hundred total countries. When you average it out, "occasionally harmful" isn't inconsistent with reality. It's consistent with a lot of interventions in a lot of places over that timeframe.
- tepidandroid 8y agoYou are right on the point about the list containing internal repression and incidents from before 1945, which should be discounted. I will not pull the list of post-1945 'interventions', but again we are in agreement that it is still a substantial list. On your other point, I respectfully disagree.
- graeme 8y agoI guess I should have put it in the context I was thinking of: which historical hegemon was preferable? My sense is that being a hegemon seems to involve such harms and interventions, and the US hegemony was especially vast. So I'm viewing things in terms of that scale. (If a non-hegemon had done that list, they would be public enemy number 1)