this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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[–] buycurious 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yo, I didn't realize this until just now but I think that means we've gotten almost every country in the hemisphere, including ourselves

Canada next?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A lot of the Truckers from the convoy were American or influenced by American conservative groups so...check?

[–] somethingsnappy 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, except Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, French Guyana, Guyana, Suriname, Peru, all of the eastern Caribbean Island chain, and yes, Canada and Greenland.

[–] Raphael 3 points 1 year ago

What is that list supposed to be?

Surely it's not a list of countries that not been coup'd by the US because at least Brazil was coup'd multiple times.

[–] Skyrmir 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Operation Condor and the Iran Contra deal hit half of that list. There were other active operations going on as well as far back as 1914 at least.

[–] somethingsnappy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Enlighten me. We were definitely fucking with countries with serious intent, but in theory operation condor was the opposite of supporting a coup? Not saying it was a good thing.

[–] Skyrmir 1 points 1 year ago

Condor was about suppression of leftist political leaders and groups, usually through assassination. Thus keeping right wing strong men in control of countries for the benefit of the US.