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by ToucanLoucan 403 days ago
> and I missed quite a few

I would include:

* Korea

* Japan (the use of the atomic bomb was controversial even then as it was after it was obvious the empire was finished and it was merely a matter of paperwork)

* Laos

* Cambodia

* Afghanistan

* Puerto Rico

* NEARLY Honduras, over fucking bananas of all things

> The USA is a big bully, destroying lives and livelihoods all over the world since the genocide of American Indians stopped in their own backyard

And even the notion that the genocide has stopped is dubious. We may no longer be openly killing them, and I guess that isn't nothing, but their cultures are irreparably damaged and most natives in the States live lives of poverty and suffering.