is the United States trying to coup the whole of Latin America?
Replace Latin America with "the world".
rare capital ell for betteridge's law of headlines, certainly
Betteridge's law is correct for bourgeois media, it reverses for proletarian media.
egdiretteb's law of headlines?
damn yall heard about the monroe doctrince? shits wild
that was supposed to be in exchange for the U.S. fucking off out of Europe's affairs, now they're just doing both
When isn't it?
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.
When the US government gets distracted by wars on other non-America continents, or engages in what Republicans would call "non-isolationism".
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.
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.
Anything that America tries will fail. Latin America will seek support from BRICS.
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 =(
BRICS
As someone from a BRICS country: 😂😂😂😂😂😂. Easily the most useless alliance in the history of alliances.
It's not an alliance though
Why is it not an alliance? Definitionally even informal agreements between two people can be an "alliance."
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
An alliance implies a level of formal military and strategic coordination
My point was that definitionally it does not. The EU is an economic alliance, NAFTA is an economic alliance, WTO is an economic alliance.
I don't think those are alliances but ok
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
India is literally part of the 'I' they wont do squat
probably
Yes, next question.
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