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[–] 44 points 9 months ago (6 children)

is the United States trying to coup the whole of Latin America?

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Replace Latin America with "the world".

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    rare capital ell for betteridge's law of headlines, certainly

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    damn yall heard about the monroe doctrince? shits wild

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago*

    It waxes and wanes. Sometimes they get much further with a cooperative attitude, sometimes their focus is elsewhere. They're building up a bigger push right now and getting some real wins in elections (with liberal use of election theft, of course!). Latin America is the frontline of imperialist struggle in the global right now, imo.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    When the US government gets distracted by wars on other non-America continents, or engages in what Republicans would call "non-isolationism".

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    Not even, they tried to coup Chavez in 2002 and Venezuela expelled a US naval commander in 2006, who was likely gathering intel for Plan Balboa. That was during the height of the GWOT under Bush. Obama ratcheted up sanctions in 2014 and declared Venezuela a national security threat in 2015, which Trump is now using to justify the war.

    There's basically this through-line of aggression against Venezuela going back to the moment they elected a socialist. Even when distracted they never took their eyes off the prize.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago*

    the pillage of latin america has been ongoing since sailing from europe became a thing. it has never stopped. now its just entering a new phase.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Anything that America tries will fail. Latin America will seek support from BRICS.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    I wish I was this optimistic but America as a hegemon has been subjugating all of South America, all of Europe, most of the Middle-East, and a good part of East Asia for the better part of a century now. Even when they fail their primary objective, they're okay with destroying a country and bringing it to ruin to have one less rival. Not to ge a doomer, things are just super depressing right now =(

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    BRICS

    As someone from a BRICS country: 😂😂😂😂😂😂. Easily the most useless alliance in the history of alliances.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    Why is it not an alliance? Definitionally even informal agreements between two people can be an "alliance."

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    An alliance implies a level of formal military and strategic coordination that I don't think is going on because I'm pretty sure it's an exclusively economic affiliation

    Like if Russia or China get invaded by the U.S. I don't think the other is under any obligation to do anything about it, and I definitely don't see Brazil or India jumping in on their behalf. And India and China still have stupid border skirmishes over their dumb claims in the Himalayas

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    In international studies, alliance is usually used to mean military alliance. Other bilateral or multilateral alliances are referred to as cooperation, agreements, memoranda, partnerships etc. so yes definitionally NAFTA is an alliance (formal structure around coincidence of interests) you won't often hear it referred to as such. It's a usage thing not a definitiona thing, so I appreciate where you're coming from

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago
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    [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Yes, next question.

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