>"Most poignantly - the US wasn't trying to create a vassal, just the opposite." Hundreds of thousands of dead and god knows how many maimed, starved, displace

>"Most poignantly - the US wasn't trying to create a vassal, just the opposite." Hundreds of thousands of dead and god knows how many maimed, starved, displaced would not give a flying fuck about what the US was trying to do. Go there and try to oopsy in the face of the victims and see what happens.