Never forget Spanish, Portuguese, French, British, Danish, and Dutch, and later, American mercantile colonialism led to the exploitation, suffering, and deaths

Never forget Spanish, Portuguese, French, British, Danish, and Dutch, and later, American mercantile colonialism led to the exploitation, suffering, and deaths of ~100 million indigenous and ~15 million African peoples for profits that built the US and Europe and the fortunes of a small cadre of elite landowners. US colonialism lived on through economic and military interventionism through Manifest Destiny in N America and Monroe Doctrine in the greater Americas for more than 2 centuries, and still continues to meddle to this day. An explicit policy of American military supremacy post-WW2 is one of the fundamental genesises of the Cold War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Haitian_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Haitian_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Government_of_Cuba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Government_of_Cuba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Nicaragua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Ni... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Ha... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_the_Dominican_Republic_(1916–1924) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PBFortune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PBFortune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27état https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27état https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_f... (School of the Americas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Banzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Banzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_FUBELT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_FUBELT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27état https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27état https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Honduran_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Honduran_coup_d%27%C3%A9t... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Salvadoran_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Salvadoran_coup_d%27%C3%A... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_uprising_attempt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_uprising_attem... Finally, in the recent few years, Africa countries are becoming more self-aware and escorting colonial vestiges of control out the door to forge their own paths.