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The USA has allied itself with similarly evil allies - Hussein, Gaddahfi, Pinochet, Noriega... hopefully the end result of allying with Israel is similar.
by comrade1234 6mo ago
The USA has allied itself with similarly evil allies - Hussein, Gaddahfi, Pinochet, Noriega... hopefully the end result of allying with Israel is similar.
- olelele 6mo agothe list goes on pretty far; the khmer rouge, Moise Tschombe, The greek junta, francesco franco and on and on..
- cassianoleal 6mo agoBrazilian junta, Fulgencio Batista, Chiang Kai-shek, Syngman Rhee, ... https://en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_supported_by_the_United_States https://en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_s... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._policy_towards_authoritarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._policy_towards_authoritar...
- lr0 6mo agoHighly recommend: Killing Hope by William Blum, it dissects the history of the many authoritarian regimes the U.S. supported since WWII, coups the U.S. engineered, the revolutions it strangled in their infancy, governments it systematically destabilized, and the popular movements it crushed (often under the veneer of “stability” or “containment”). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Hope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Hope
- ekjhgkejhgk 6mo agoIf you're going to argue that the US support Chiang Kai-shek why not add in Stalin as well?
- cassianoleal 6mo agoI'm not sure the US has supported Stalin in the same way, but sure... does that make it less bad?
- grafmax 6mo agoIn those cases those dictators were US proxies. In this case it seems the relationship is reversed.