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South Korea and Japan are a bastion of American influence in Asia, much like Israel in the Levantine region and Italy in the central Mediterranean. Noticing a
by tomcooks 5y ago
South Korea and Japan are a bastion of American influence in Asia, much like Israel in the Levantine region and Italy in the central Mediterranean.
Noticing a parallel between which countries become very popular and American military and economic strategies is left as an exercise to the paranoid.
- ginko 5y agoItaly has been a cultural power for several times longer than the US exists.
- tomcooks 5y agoI'm talking about CIA funds to get Italy out of the soviet area of influence (aka the Italian Economic Boom of the 50s), why would you pull the Roman Empire or the Renaissance out of your hat.
- darkerside 5y ago... Because you were unclear?
- nabla9 5y agoItaly is much younger than the US. Risorgimento (movement to see Italian Peninsula as a unified political and cultural entity, a nation) started after 1815. Before that Italy didn't exist even as a clear concept. Old cultural power of separate cities and regions included in the modern Italy is older, of course.
- herbst 5y agoHow is Italy an American bastion?
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoMaybe something to do with every third American claiming to be "Italian" despite the last person from their family to have set foot there being born three generations before them.
- code_duck 5y agoWouldn’t that make the US an Italian bastion?
- tomcooks 5y agoAsk the American missile bases and navy stations in central and southern Italy, conveniently placed right in the middle of the medkterranean.
- herbst 5y agoIt does not imply that Italians feel any connection whatsoever. I am no Italian, but from what I can tell this couldn't be further from the truth. Except France I am not sure any smaller country is so actively creating and consuming their own, kinda nationalist, media. Edit:// the main reason I asked is because if you visit cultural places in Italy and read the plates / listen to the stories the US very often is portrait as the aggressor
- Keyframe 5y agoWith its ever-living communist sentiment it cannot be farther. Its cultural impact negates much of the american one and even influenced it back heavily. US armed forces presence has more to do with WWII, like in Germany, than the two being as close. It's an absurd statement basically.
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