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by Cthulhu_ 1275 days ago
TECHNICALLY they only supply loans and construction assistance to countries that don't have the infrastructure themselves yet, but, yeah.

Not like the US is much better though; US based investors and shell companies own property all across the world, and US intelligence agencies infiltrated / owned European based secure communications companies / products (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG).

Also, the US has public / non-secret army bases in 100+ countries, and secret police stations in loads of places elsewhere (50 prisons in 28 countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites)