On our behalf. Whether or not the american people elect politicians that are corporate puppets is irrelevant because they vote anyways and accept the legitimacy

On our behalf. Whether or not the american people elect politicians that are corporate puppets is irrelevant because they vote anyways and accept the legitimacy of their government. The US public is very much pro-business. In every election cycle you almost never see the economy and jobs being less than #1 and #2 topics. Even the very fact that you are criticizing the govenrment, I suspect is a result of a good economy, perhaps you would be wondering why we are not invading someone if things were much more dire? Most people would and have too. > How has that played out for the US in the long term (this thread, for example, being about Iran). A better question is how might it have turned out otherwise. I don't see any war with Iran for example. > Exactly how many democracies has the US toppled through fear that the "socialist leaning" elected people's government might not buy American or fully align with the US hegemony? As empires go, are you saying the US is doing worse here? Colonisation would have been the first choice by any other historical empire. America can pretty much manifest destiny our way into the rest of the world you know. I mean, it's actually thanks to more level headed folks like you that doesn't happen. If it were up to me, they would get a tomahawk for so much as spelling America wrong. But don't worry, you will get your way, China and much of the world has forgotten what world wars were like and the CIA thanks to the changing views of the US public has gone soft. It will be you or your children that will pay the price. The CIA is a paramilitary org that "nips it in the bud" as they say, except even that offends your sensibilities so let's go back to full on century long back and forth warring with nukes, drones, slaughterbots and ML now!