All the time I hear about “the CIA will coup this”, “America supported that”, “These people opposed US Imperialism”. A topic could have absolutely nothing to do with america and involve a place on the exact opposite part of the earth and Americans will find a way to make it about America. For example, people talk about Russian politics and Putin yet seem to support Putin wholeheartedly because his Russia “opposes american imperialism”. This framing of the conversation seemingly ignoring how Russian people feel about his reign, how the EU has been having to drag america into the latest sanctions against Russia, and how for the last 4 years America had an ostensibly Pro-Russian president. I swear American Leftists don’t care at all about Capitalism or Communism and just want to oppose the United States. Most of the world and people don’t care about American influence, let alone to such an obsessive degree.
every anti-communist project can be squarely traced back to US dollars
well good luck finding the america dollars that crushed the paris commune lololol
the largest war in the history of the world had the US handing millions of dollars of stuff to communists so they could fight some anti-communists. During Karl Marx’ time communists all thought the greatest country of reactionary thought that was an existential threat to communism was Russia and that is where the first successful communist project happened. I think its an inherently negative mentality to think america is the hopeless backwater that will eternally oppose communism
So you found the one event in the last 150 years that doesn’t appear to involve America.
Isn’t America the most influential and powerful anti-communist country that puts huge amounts of resources trying to crush anyone that opposes its imperialism?
my country has an american base. doesn’t mean I think about america 24/7 and blame america for the entirety of society and go on about how bad it is. Would be antithetical to making positive change if I wasted my time on that
I don’t see why the average american would care too much about bases in other countries. its a very slight cost and has little effect on their daily life or local politics. I bet if the US left every single military base it had abroad you’d still see a very similar if not same political situation of democrats vs republicans there. seems an issue that concerns the local country much more than america if anything
Weird how people who live in a country that also happens to have been a hegemonic world power for the better part of century would be “obsessed” with it. What could explain this?
