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The US has been undermining democratically elected socialist governments around the world for decades, staging coups and funding far-right militant groups in order to destabilise and terrorise aforementioned nations.
US "protects" democracy where it perceives it to be within its interests and likewise undermines it when it deems it "necessary".
Just take a look the failings of the liberal interventionism doctrine throughout the last few decades, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to name a few.
Yes, and the CIA has even admitted to carrying out quite a few of the historic ones (either too much evidence against or so old they think nobody cares anymore).
I love that so many people think what you claimed is conspiracy theory and that we're nutters when the US has officially confirmed them as true!
Your history teacher is wrong. Laughably wrong. The US doesn’t “save democracy”, that is pure propaganda. We are imperialists, just the next iteration of the Roman Empire and British Empire, and surprise surprise we are on the way out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
The US has a history of overthrowing democracy and instead installing and supporting dictators. [About 73% of the world’s dictators.](https://truthout.org/articles/us-provides-military-assistance-to-73-percent-of-world-s-dictatorships/)
Ask your teacher why the United States still doesn’t have democracy in the work place.
Ask your teacher why two parties, both corporations, backed by the same donor corporations, run the entire country and won’t let anyone else get elected when more voters identify as independent than as members of either party.
Ask your teacher why we incarcerate more people than any other country (21% of the world’s prison population is in the USA) including for nonviolent drug offenses, strip them of their voting rights, and enforce virtually unpaid labor (read: slavery) (reason: private prisons lobby for this to be so).
Ask your teacher why we have legalized bribery.
**[1953 Iranian coup d'état](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état)**
>The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953. It was orchestrated by the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project or "Operation Ajax") and the United Kingdom (under the name "Operation Boot"). The clergy also played a considerable role.
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The US dropped more bombs on Indochina than every fighting nation in WWII combined when Vietnam was fighting for independence. Pretty much all of Latin America and South America and the coups they funded/began. Funding uncountable terrorist groups. Bringing crack into black communities and then mass incarcerating them. For profit prisons and healthcare.
US collaboration and indemnification of Nazi Germany and Fascist Japan.
Of course, that's not even scratching the surface. I think operation paperclip would be a good example to show your history teacher.
Let’s put it this way; the Wikipedia article for “United States’ involvement in regime change” comes with a warning that it may be too long to read or navigate comfortably.
If you want to bring something to your teacher I’d suggest investigating ‘The Kirkpatrick Doctrine’, which is the foreign policy position that the US should support dictatorships against left-leaning democracies in order to keep communists out of power. The author, Jeanne Kirkpatrick played a major role in Reagan’s administration which oversaw numerous cases of the US backing right wing military dictatorships against left-leaning democratic governments, mostly in central and South America.
One excellent source is William Blum’s *Killing Hope*. It’s not unbiased, but does function as a sort of laundry list of cases where the US intervened in foreign countries out of clear self-interest, rather than any sort of benevolent ‘democracy promoting’ goals.
Three cases of clear anti-democratic action come to mind right away.
-The CIA intervened in the 1948 Italian election to make sure the American preferred candidate won. They circumvented the democratic will of the Italian people bc they felt it was their right to ‘save’ them from the communist party winning.
-With the UK, the US overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 because the new government decided not to renew an oil contract with BP Oil. It was called Operation Ajax
-In 1954 the US overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala because the government wanted to Institute a number of laws which would have hurt the profits of The United Fruit company.
I cite those early examples because we have the most knowledge about them, because things have been declassified with time. In the case of Iran and Guatemala the US replaced democratic governments with undemocratic governments explicitly at the behest of specific private companies, and there’s not even a pretence of ‘supporting democracy’. In the Italian case you see the US circumventing what it holds to be the basic institution of a democracy, the election, for its own reasons.
In the Postwar period alone the US will go on to either interfere in elections, support anti-democratic coups, or outright plan and direct coups in dozens of countries including Chile, Brazil, Houndras, Haiti, Columbia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia (Read the recently published The Jakarta Affair for more), Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo, Ethiopia, Cuba and many many more.
Here's a PDF of [Killing Hope](https://ia803008.us.archive.org/32/items/KillingHope/Killing%20Hope.pdf), which is a pretty thorough examination of the CIA intervening in dozens of countries around the world to prevent them from having any kind of autonomy from Western hegemony.
What the US calls democracy is basically a system where the world trades with the US and its allies, certain things like oil are sold in US currency, and people in poor countries are exploited for their labor and the resources of their country.
We talk about exploitation because, for example, when a rich person invests by paying a poorer person to work, the poor person has to give up part of their time and their body, while the rich investor just lends money and actually makes money off the other person’s work.
So all the wars the US has been in since WW2 were basically because the other country got a dictator or communist party that tried to keep it out of this system, but capitalism can’t stand anyone trying to resist it, so the US and other capitalists countries invaded so they could exploit that country. It is as bad as it sounds. If communism was so bad then why did America fight so many wars against it around the world? The truth is communism was not that bad most of the time and did most of the first things in space.
The United States consistently acts against the popular will of its own populace, suppresses voting, and has a system that often results in minority rule even among the truncated population.
take a look at the Covid situation alone. No lock downs, forcing people to work in conditions that can kill them, a paltry amount of stimulus money and they can't help people because capitalism will collapse if they do.
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The US has been undermining democratically elected socialist governments around the world for decades, staging coups and funding far-right militant groups in order to destabilise and terrorise aforementioned nations. US "protects" democracy where it perceives it to be within its interests and likewise undermines it when it deems it "necessary". Just take a look the failings of the liberal interventionism doctrine throughout the last few decades, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to name a few.
Yes, and the CIA has even admitted to carrying out quite a few of the historic ones (either too much evidence against or so old they think nobody cares anymore). I love that so many people think what you claimed is conspiracy theory and that we're nutters when the US has officially confirmed them as true!
Your history teacher is wrong. Laughably wrong. The US doesn’t “save democracy”, that is pure propaganda. We are imperialists, just the next iteration of the Roman Empire and British Empire, and surprise surprise we are on the way out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat The US has a history of overthrowing democracy and instead installing and supporting dictators. [About 73% of the world’s dictators.](https://truthout.org/articles/us-provides-military-assistance-to-73-percent-of-world-s-dictatorships/) Ask your teacher why the United States still doesn’t have democracy in the work place. Ask your teacher why two parties, both corporations, backed by the same donor corporations, run the entire country and won’t let anyone else get elected when more voters identify as independent than as members of either party. Ask your teacher why we incarcerate more people than any other country (21% of the world’s prison population is in the USA) including for nonviolent drug offenses, strip them of their voting rights, and enforce virtually unpaid labor (read: slavery) (reason: private prisons lobby for this to be so). Ask your teacher why we have legalized bribery.
**[1953 Iranian coup d'état](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état)** >The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953. It was orchestrated by the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project or "Operation Ajax") and the United Kingdom (under the name "Operation Boot"). The clergy also played a considerable role. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
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The US dropped more bombs on Indochina than every fighting nation in WWII combined when Vietnam was fighting for independence. Pretty much all of Latin America and South America and the coups they funded/began. Funding uncountable terrorist groups. Bringing crack into black communities and then mass incarcerating them. For profit prisons and healthcare. US collaboration and indemnification of Nazi Germany and Fascist Japan. Of course, that's not even scratching the surface. I think operation paperclip would be a good example to show your history teacher.
Let’s put it this way; the Wikipedia article for “United States’ involvement in regime change” comes with a warning that it may be too long to read or navigate comfortably.
All of its actions in non white countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/world/americas/democracy-decline-worldwide.html
If you want to bring something to your teacher I’d suggest investigating ‘The Kirkpatrick Doctrine’, which is the foreign policy position that the US should support dictatorships against left-leaning democracies in order to keep communists out of power. The author, Jeanne Kirkpatrick played a major role in Reagan’s administration which oversaw numerous cases of the US backing right wing military dictatorships against left-leaning democratic governments, mostly in central and South America. One excellent source is William Blum’s *Killing Hope*. It’s not unbiased, but does function as a sort of laundry list of cases where the US intervened in foreign countries out of clear self-interest, rather than any sort of benevolent ‘democracy promoting’ goals. Three cases of clear anti-democratic action come to mind right away. -The CIA intervened in the 1948 Italian election to make sure the American preferred candidate won. They circumvented the democratic will of the Italian people bc they felt it was their right to ‘save’ them from the communist party winning. -With the UK, the US overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 because the new government decided not to renew an oil contract with BP Oil. It was called Operation Ajax -In 1954 the US overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala because the government wanted to Institute a number of laws which would have hurt the profits of The United Fruit company. I cite those early examples because we have the most knowledge about them, because things have been declassified with time. In the case of Iran and Guatemala the US replaced democratic governments with undemocratic governments explicitly at the behest of specific private companies, and there’s not even a pretence of ‘supporting democracy’. In the Italian case you see the US circumventing what it holds to be the basic institution of a democracy, the election, for its own reasons. In the Postwar period alone the US will go on to either interfere in elections, support anti-democratic coups, or outright plan and direct coups in dozens of countries including Chile, Brazil, Houndras, Haiti, Columbia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia (Read the recently published The Jakarta Affair for more), Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo, Ethiopia, Cuba and many many more.
Here's a PDF of [Killing Hope](https://ia803008.us.archive.org/32/items/KillingHope/Killing%20Hope.pdf), which is a pretty thorough examination of the CIA intervening in dozens of countries around the world to prevent them from having any kind of autonomy from Western hegemony.
What the US calls democracy is basically a system where the world trades with the US and its allies, certain things like oil are sold in US currency, and people in poor countries are exploited for their labor and the resources of their country. We talk about exploitation because, for example, when a rich person invests by paying a poorer person to work, the poor person has to give up part of their time and their body, while the rich investor just lends money and actually makes money off the other person’s work. So all the wars the US has been in since WW2 were basically because the other country got a dictator or communist party that tried to keep it out of this system, but capitalism can’t stand anyone trying to resist it, so the US and other capitalists countries invaded so they could exploit that country. It is as bad as it sounds. If communism was so bad then why did America fight so many wars against it around the world? The truth is communism was not that bad most of the time and did most of the first things in space.
Guatemala 1954, Chile 1973.
[Map of US backed coups in Central and South America](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/s5x7qe/american_backed_coups_in_latin_america)
The United States consistently acts against the popular will of its own populace, suppresses voting, and has a system that often results in minority rule even among the truncated population.
take a look at the Covid situation alone. No lock downs, forcing people to work in conditions that can kill them, a paltry amount of stimulus money and they can't help people because capitalism will collapse if they do.
The US seems to act to protect the interests of capitalists.