Exception to the rule, much easier to paint the middle east or south American countries as 'the other' than your own neighbour. Also there are more types of war than just dropping bombs, maybe I should have clarified.
"You" constantly threaten, pressure and influence politics and sponsor lackeys in Venezuela. You did the same to Panama, and countless other latin "Banana Republics".
The west has meddled in Nigeria since forever -- search for Shell (the oil company) and Nigeria. (Hint: on the mainstream media you'll find 1/10 of the stuff reported on independent ones without big oil corps as advertisers).
Russia? Are you kidding me? You had a full blown cold war, and tons of "proxy" peripheral wars with Russia for half a century. And the US still tries to influence Russian policy, replace their government with some friendly clown like the early Yeltsin, etc. Countless money are spent in campaigns to influence local policies there (imagine the outburst if Russia sponsored this or that US candidate, and had NGOs and groups report on the elections, gun laws, etc).
Mexico? Heck, California, Texas, etc were part of Mexico. And you don't need to bomb it, since you've controlled the place, and had friendly lackeys in power for decades.
>"You" constantly threaten, pressure and influence politics and sponsor lackeys in Venezuela.
Do you have any evidence for this, beyond the crazed rantings of the late dictator?
>The west has meddled in Nigeria since forever -- search for Shell (the oil company) and Nigeria. (Hint: on the mainstream media you'll find 1/10 of the stuff reported on independent ones without big oil corps as advertisers).
So we went from "the US bombs countrise to oblivion" to "The West meddles in countries' affairs". That's quite a step down. Here we were talking about something interesting, namely bombing, and now we're at nebulous "meddling". All countries "meddle" in the affairs of other countries. What do you think OPEC countries are doing throwing around cash in Washington?
>Russia? Are you kidding me? You had a full blown cold war, and tons of "proxy" peripheral wars with Russia for half a century.
Which had absolutely nothing to do with oil.
>Mexico? Heck, California, Texas, etc were part of Mexico. And you don't need to bomb it, since you've controlled the place, and had friendly lackeys in power for decades.
Sure, California and Texas were part of Mexico before oil existed as an industry. And again, do you have any actual evidence we had "friendly lackeys" in power in Mexico? As far as I can tell, the Mexican government has a lot more influence in the US than the other way around.
>This "wars for oil" stuff is something a lot of people repeat to themselves without really thinking about it.
And then you bring Venezuela, Russia, Nigeria etc as examples where these things didn't happen...
Not only forgetting all the places where those wars DID happen (all over the wider middle east for one), but also the numerous ways the west intervened in those places, from constant pressure with tons of ways (sponsoring political opponents, arming guerilla groups, helping their border states invade them, manipulating their economy, down to toppling governments).
If you don't count the hunt for Pancho Villa, then it was twice. Once during the Mexican-American War, and then the Occupation of Veracruz during the Mexican Revolution.