[Teever]

You took the bait.

The person you're replying to would much rather have a discussion about the well-documented atrocities of a waning American empire than the far less documented atrocities of a waxing Chinese Empire that has no democratic institutions to keep it in check.

[kjkjadksj]

You act like our democratic instutions keep us in check. Note how most of our disruption in central america came from actions by clandestine intelligence agencies that are unaccountable to the democratic american government. Yes, there are two governments in the U.S: the one the public elects and then the one that the public is never to fully learn about.

[moomoo11]

Bro they intervened in Guatemala because in almost every case where communism was preferred over capitalism that country went to shit and became a backwater.

Commi didn’t work as an experiment after all those death camps and purges anyway. And anyone “communist” today is basically authoritarian capitalist with mini purges and dictators. They take Jack Ma to a “camp” and factory reset him or put all the Muslims out west in a prison city.

America has to play the way it does sometimes because the lobby is dominated by cheaters and toxic scumbags who don’t want to actually score points and win.

[kjkjadksj]

Guatemala and El Salvador, famously thriving countries today. Glad we stirred the pot and shipped weapons into the conflict zone that are still there.

[moomoo11]

They would have been worse off. There are like 200 or so countries. I don’t know more than the top 10 or so because unfortunately it’s not relevant.