Not really. USA actually had a pretty good reputation after WW2 and before wars in ME. For quite some time, US actually looked like a good country.
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BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today 5 weeks agoAmerica has always been the bad actor
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BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
It looked like a good country but has been doing the same thing. CIA propaganda isn’t working anymore like it used to.
USA has been at war 240 out of 250 years of its existence.
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REDACTED@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
I’m seeing a pattern in that list
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 5 weeks ago
Explain.
foggianism@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They had a pretty good reputation up until 1953 when they started meddling with Korea. ever since they have stuck their nose in other peoples business. say Vietnam, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya etc. And if you think well those were all countries that were failing so America tried to help them but they wouldn’t accept the help or something to that extent - congratulations, you are a sucker for decades long American propaganda.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
it’s almost like taking in all those Nazi’s after WW2 was a bad idea…
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Bruh, America was fucked from the start. Let’s not forget what they did to Native Americans. The Nazi’s weren’t being taken in, they were coming home.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Valid.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
but is that reputation based on geniunely good things, or spin and propaganda?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
USA has killed way more than any other nation since WWII which they had a hand in causing. Trust me, USA has a horrible reputation as the number one human rights abuser ever.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
I dunno, there’s been some pretty fucking bad genocides about the place over the years, as well as shit like Stalin and Mao.
When it comes to killing other countries people, they might be.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You have got to be kidding me, or perhaps you are just ignorant to what the US has done.
Let’s just start with economic sanctions. It is estimated that US sanctions have lead to the death of approximately 500,000 lives a year for the last 50 years. That is 25 million people just because we don’t like other countries policies.
Speaking of Genocide the US has an ongoing genocide and has participated is some of the worst genocides in history. Take WWII. The Nazi looked up to the US and Hitler modeled his destruction of Jews on the Native American Genocide
Wealthy US industrialists like Ford bankrolled the Nazi Empire. When Hitler tried to expel the Jews these same wealthy American lobbied against taking them in and stroked anti Jewish sentiment throughout the world to make sure no one would take them in.
This lead to the final solution where American companies like IBM developed a census system (those numbers tattooed on the Jews arms) and helped figure out the logistics of sending the Jews to their death so the trains would not backup into the ghettos.
Besides the ongoing genocide of Native Americans with US Indian boarding schools open to this day we also have the War on Drugs which is yet another hamfisted genocide against minorities by the white nationalists.
Millions of families have been destroyed and the US accounts for 20% of the world’s prison population but only 5% of the actual world population. These along with gun violence having killed a million people in the last ten years paints a very dark picture of the US.
Yes, we also exceed at killing others countries citizens as well. The US and responsible for countless suffering being the number one producer of arms in the world. We are responsible for the two greatest murder of civilian life in a single day with the fire bombings of Tokyo and the dropping of the atomic bombs.
Our technology is also particularly destructive with things like poisoning every human being alive with forever chemicals and plastics. While you can definitely say the countries that used this technology are also culpable there is no denying we invented and proliferated it.
Take lead poisoning from fuel for instance. It was estimate that even to this day 5 million people die every year due to lung damage. Added all up it is in the hundreds of millions dead. Of course the greatest loss of life (billions) will happen with global warming something US petro scientist knew about in the 1950s.
Back to our war mongering the US has toppled around 70 countries and has been directly responsible for the killing of tens of millions of civilians through these terrorist acts. Just there campaign against communism killed millions of leftist
I am found of saying it would take more than my lifetime just to detail all the atrocities and people destroyed by the US.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
if you ignore the international protests against nuclear bombs.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
america/UK is the reason why Iran turned out this way.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yes but the enemy of my enemy isn’t automatically a super chill dude or anything
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Iran democratically elected a socialist leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in 1952. The US (and UK) didn’t like that, so they ushered a coup and installed the Shah, a brutal dictator, in 1953. Then in 1979, Iranians had enough of his bullshit and overthrew the government with the Islamic Revolution, voting in Ruhollah Khomeini as the new Ayatollah of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Have we ever once considered that the reason why certain sovereign nations in the world behave the way they do was because sometime in the 20th century, the US interrupted their progress towards socialism. See also Latin and South America.
Maybe the US should just stop interfering with other countries and let the people decide what’s best.
Zoot@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Yeah but then america would make money
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
America makes money when they destabilize sovereign nations and install their puppets to say “yes” whenever American corporations come to extract (read: steal) their resources.
America does NOT make money when socialist states like Iran and Cuba nationalize their oil industry such that economic commerce can only happen through the government and its people.
This is why America gets involved internationally: it’s to fuel their corporate greed and endlessly subjagate the Global South all for the benefit of the Imperial Core.
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How free and fair was that vote?
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Idk, how free and fair are American elections?
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
The reason Iran has a dictatorship is because America overthrew a democratically elected leader in Iran and installed and a brutal dictator Shah in his place.
Still Iran has never initiated a war.
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drath@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Where’s Yemen and Lebanon?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
it was of the insistence of uk, THE SHAH WAS installed, which led tot he Islamic revolution, REAGAN told iran to keep holding the hostages there til he got elected.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We hit Cambodia again from 80-95!?
Krono@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
I’m guessing this is a reference to unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, which has killed 20,000 and caused 45,000 amputations since the war ended in 1979.
That war ended 50 years ago, and there is still 700 square miles of land contaminated by unexploded bombs.
At least one child will lose their hand to a US bomb this month in Cambodia, you can bet on it. And next month too.