It’s in defense of capitalism. Most coups are against what leftists want — socialism. Otherwise why would the US do things like get a million plus Indonesian Muslim communist sympathizers murdered by right wingers in 65? America has gone after every non capitalist country and does agitprop for places like Tibet or Taiwan and capitalists as a whole while vilifying and trying to overthrow Cuba.
It's nothing to do with capitalism, it's all about installing regimes that are pro-US, and allow US enterprises to exploit these countries. Indonesia has a lot of resources, including the Grasberg mine in west Papua, that it leases out to US companies with very little benefit for the local population, instead pocketing millions in bribes. It's also a huge country of 200+ million of huge geopolitical importance.
The US is simply a thug. It has too much firepower for its own good. It's drunk on its ideologies of freedom or democracy or what have you, that it can never recognise its mistakes.
Yes but no. You can be capitalist without letting the rich 0.1% control the government. The US is a result of puritanism of the freedom of speech. Citizens United vs Federal Election commission case confirms that in the US, Money is Speech. That is, lobbying is legal. Huge donations to politicians are legal. It's as corrupt as governments go. Not to mention the role of the media in all this. There are many capitalist societies, e.g. singapore, that do not let their governments become corrupted by capital.
I abhor capitalism as much as you do, but economic system and political system are separate although interlinked. Why shouldn't we count Singapore just because it's small? They have a parliament and all other branches of government just like any other nation. HK is different though as it is ruled by a CEO.
My point is capitalism itself is not necessarily the root of all evils; it is puritanism, dogmatism, and when it comes to the US, it's their puritanical approach to "freedom" that ironically makes the majority of the population less free and less democratic. A communist, planned economy is as much capable of creating an incompetent government and society if there were no political, ethical and cultural wisdom.
To summarise, capitalism is abhorrent, but there are other dimensions.
The world was in a Cold War after the communists (Soviets) defeated the Nazis. America did the mass murder and suppression of people in my Indonesia example (Jakarta Method) to suppress communism in support of capitalism. There's been videos recently on Youtube going over US led coups. The amount to stop socialism is the vast majority. Coups don't include various massacres and suppression of communists either.
It kind of hurts to hear people still think this. My parents home country had coups taking out leftist socialist leaders and installing awful dictators. Capitalism is evil. Capitalists should have left socialists alone after World War 2.
Oligarchy sure, but that’s what all capitalist systems will tend towards with wealth redistribution. There is no such thing as free market capitalism. Markets can’t exist without states.