| ▲ | comrade1234 16 hours ago |
| The USA has allied itself with similarly evil allies - Hussein, Gaddahfi, Pinochet, Noriega... hopefully the end result of allying with Israel is similar. |
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| ▲ | olelele 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| the list goes on pretty far; the khmer rouge, Moise Tschombe, The greek junta, francesco franco and on and on.. |
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| ▲ | cassianoleal 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Brazilian junta, Fulgencio Batista, Chiang Kai-shek, Syngman Rhee, ... https://en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_s... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._policy_towards_authoritar... | | |
| ▲ | lr0 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Highly 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 | |
| ▲ | ekjhgkejhgk 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If you're going to argue that the US support Chiang Kai-shek why not add in Stalin as well? | | |
| ▲ | cassianoleal 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm not sure the US has supported Stalin in the same way, but sure... does that make it less bad? |
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| ▲ | grafmax 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| In those cases those dictators were US proxies. In this case it seems the relationship is reversed. |
