A staggering 80% of all the global conflicts and wars since WWII involved the USA. Here is a PARTIAL list of the meddling and wars of the United States of Aggression.
1947–1949: Intervening in the Greek civil war
1947–1970: Meddling in Italy's elections and supporting anti-communism activities
1945-1949: Intervening in China’s civil war and establishing Taiwan
1948: Supporting anti-government forces in Costa Rica's civil war
1949–1953: Supporting anti-communism activities in Albania
1949: Staging a coup in Syria (it was CIA’s first coup)
1950–1953: Korean War
1952: Intervening in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952
1953: Orchestrated a coup in Iran and overthrew the democratically elected leader
1954: Invaded Guatemala and installed a puppet
1956–1957: Plotting a coup in Syria
1957–1959: Supporting a coup in Indonesia
1958: Creating a crisis in Lebanon
1960–1961: Supporting a coup in the Congo
1960: Meddling in Laos’ reforms
1961: Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
1961–1975: Supporting civil war and OPIUM TRADE in Laos (look up “Air America”)
1961–1964: Supporting anti-government activities in Brazil
1963: Supporting civil strife in Iraq
1963: Supporting riots in Ecuador
1963–1975: Vietnam War
1964: Intervening in Congo’s rebellion (and bombing)
1965–1966: Intervening in Dominica's civil war
1965–1967: Installing, arming and aiding fascist Indonesian military government’s massacre of communists (2-3 million killed)
1966: Engineering an insurgency in Ghana
1966–1969: Creating conflicts in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which is a region on the Korean peninsula that demarcates North Korea from South Korea
1966–1967: Supporting an insurgency in Bolivia
1967: Intervening in the change of the Greek government
1967–1975: Intervening in Cambodia's civil war
1970: Meddling in Oman's domestic affairs
1970–1973: Aided a military coup in Chile (overthrew democratically elected and popular progressive leader, Salvador Allende)
1970–1973: Orchestrating a coup in Cambodia
1971: Supporting a coup in Bolivia
1972–1975: Assisting anti-government forces in Iraq
1976: Supporting a coup in Argentina
1976–1992: Intervening in Angola's domestic affairs
1977–1988: Supporting a coup in Pakistan
1979–1993: Supporting anti-government forces in Cambodia
1979–1989: Arming, funding, training the Mujahedin in Afghanistan. This led to Al Qaeda and the largest network of Islamic terrorist groups in the world.
1979–1989: Used Saddam Hussein to wage a proxy war against Iraq. Funded and armed Saddam for ten years.
1980–1989: Financed anti-government Solidarity trade union in Poland
1980–1992: Meddling in El Salvador's civil war
1981: Attacking Libya in Gulf of Sidra
1981–1982: Engineering regime change in Chad
1982–1984: Participating in a multilateral intervention in Lebanon
1982–1989: Supporting anti-government forces in Nicaragua (the U.S. armed fascists, death squads, drug lords etc.)
1983: Invading Grenada
1986: Invading Gulf of Sidra, Libya
1986: Bombing Libya
1988: Shooting down an Iranian airliner
1988: Sending troops to Honduras
1989: Attacking Libya in Tobruk
1989: Intervening in the Philippines' domestic affairs
1989–1990: Invading Panama
1990–1991: Persian Gulf War, Part 1
1991: Intervening in Haiti's elections
1991–2003: Leading the enforcement action to establish a no-fly zone in Iraq
1992–1995: Intervening in Somalia's civil war for the first time
1992–1995: Intervening in the Bosnian War
1994–1995: Sending troops to Haiti
1996: Supporting a coup in Iraq
1997: Sending troops to Albania
1997: Sending troops to Sierra Leone
1998–1999: Waging the Kosovo War
1998: Launching cruise missile attacks on Sudan and Afghanistan
1998–1999: Sending troops to Kenya and Tanzania
2001–present: War on Afghanistan
2002: Sending troops to Côte d'Ivoire
2003: Orchestrating color revolution in Georgia and installing a pro-US government
2003–present: Iraq War, Part 2
2004–now: Inciting wars between Pakistan and Afghanistan in their contiguous areas
2004: Orchestrating color revolution in Ukraine and installing a pro-US government
2006–2007: Supporting Fatah, a Palestinian political and military organization, in overthrowing the elected government of Hamas
2007–present: Intervening in Somalia's civil war for the second time
2009: Supporting a coup in Honduras
2011: Supporting anti-government forces in Libya
2011–present: Arming, funding, training jihadists, Al Qaeda, and “moderate rebels” in Syria. Occasionally bombing Syria. And occupying the oil-rich parts of Syria.
2011–2017: Carrying out military operations in Uganda
2014: Orchestrating a color revolution in Ukraine and overthrowing a democratically elected leader.
2014–present: Leading the intervention actions in Iraq
2015–now: Arming, directing Saudi Arabia's participation in Yemen's civil war
2017-2019: Attempting regime change in Venezuela
:100: :fire: :point: "Pax Americana über alles!"You can't handle the truth!
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to. — Colonel Jessup, A Few Good Men
can we say unequivocally that the United States is an imperialist country? — Wheatley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImperialismImperialism is a policy or ideology of extending the rule over peoples and other countries, for extending political and economic access, power and control, often through employing hard power, especially military force, but also soft power. While related to the concepts of colonialism and empire, imperialism is a distinct concept that can apply to other forms of expansion and many forms of government.
We can say the US is an imperialist state but not colonialist. — SpaceDweller
We have a colony on Mars. — frank
Good joke but, colony without sovereignty is not a colony — SpaceDweller
Carthage was a Phoenician colony, but Tyre never controlled it. — frank
And we'd have to listen to a metric shit-ton of wailing and whining and crying about "socialism" and "communism" from a bunch of anti-intellectual, uneducated, conservative Republican stupid fucks who wouldn't know socialism, communism, or representative democracy if it hit them over their pointed little heads. — James Riley
Quite an impressive, and saddening, list. Not looking for a debate, but I’m just curious how many items on your list you personally disagree with, or feel that the world would have been better off without the US intervening? Half? 75%? — Pinprick
The alterntive to murdering ten of millions of people worldwide is not murdering tens of millions of people worldwide. — StreetlightX
Good rant rant tho. Somewhere, in the background, a tiny patriotic trumpet is playing. — StreetlightX
And we'd have to listen to a metric shit-ton of wailing and whining and crying about "socialism" and "communism" from a bunch of anti-intellectual, uneducated, conservative Republican stupid fucks who wouldn't know socialism, communism, or representative democracy if it hit them over their pointed little heads. — James Riley
The alterntive to murdering ten of millions of people worldwide is not murdering tens of millions of people worldwide. — StreetlightX
Cite? No? Didn't think so. — James Riley
Cite? No? Didn't think so.
— James Riley
Reposted without comment. — StreetlightX
But it's far from unique to the US. The British, The Spanish, The French, everybody, did the same thing. — Manuel
The first world war was the first hint that the British could not get their own way in the world anymore, they needed the Americans. — boagie
The United States finally entered the war [WWI] neither because of German bombing of commercial ships nor out of any ‘idealist’ desire to ‘make the world safe for democracy’, but because the allies could no longer keep up their purchases from US firms. Guaranteeing their borrowing was now beyond even the great J. P. Morgan’s means. The US ambassador in London, reporting on the international situation, found it ‘most alarming to the financial and industrial outlook of the United States’. British and French inability to keep up orders would surely mean ‘a panic in the United States’, and he concluded that it was not ‘improbable that the only way of maintaining our present preeminent trade position and averting a panic is by declaring war on Germany’ (quoted in Lens, 2003: 260).
Only by entering the war could the US government guarantee the $3.5 billion the allies owed to US bankers and businesses,and authorize a further $3 billion in loans for continued allied purchases from the United States. So with war and what amounted to a government export credit to the belligerents, US manufacturing went from 35.8 per cent of the world total in 1913, compared with Germany’s 14.3 per cent and the United Kingdom’s 14.1 per cent, to 42.2 per cent in 1926–29, while the war reduced Germany’s and the United Kingdom’s shares to 11.6 per cent and 9.4 per cent respectively (League of Nations, 1945: 13).
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