I know like We Are All Neocons Now or whatever but damn, the CIA was really behind damn near every bad thing that happened in global politics for like thirty years.
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I was in Florida then. I remember when a story was in the paper about the military planes flying guns, to trade for drugs to buy guns, to supply their illegal activities.
Using the air bases to do it.
Even tho it was reported on, somehow it was still hush hush.
The CIA made Putin invade Ukraine? And don't give me that shit about NATO encroaching on Russia; neighboring countries begging to be in NATO to prevent Russian invasion is not the same as NATO threatening Russia
Good boy you know the words. Here's something that will radically shatter everything you know about the world: Russia is imperialist 💥. This will take you another 20 years to understand, but it's actually possible for countries other than the US to do bad things.
like DOZENS of warmongering acts of violence against other nations (like no other country in modern history), military occupation spanning the globe, and a military budget 10 TIMES other countries combined but yeah Russia and China are soooo bad lmfao can't be serious rn 🫵🏽🤡
The reality is russia is ok (Putin sucks), China is amazing, and US still very bad. if you can see that image and STILL say US is ok, your politics are cooked.
now listen, I was obviously joking, and even then I still said “damn near” everything. You know my point: it is just surprising to learn the number and variety of truly horrible things the CIA specifically got into for decades.
"morally justified" yeah ok lmao maybe if your morals begin and end with warmongering and military interventionism masquerading as "liberty and democracy". The US is evil. In what delusional world are you living in where it isn't?
The Church Committee was 50 years ago; yes, the CIA was essentially a rogue agency for a long time, but it's been a very long time since that was the case.
The intelligence scandal of the Iraq war is that the Bush administration *didn't* listen to the CIA; the CIA told them Iraq didn't have WMDs and, when the Bush admin guys found a source who'd say what they wanted to hear, the CIA investigated his background, told them "he's a liar" and was ignored.
For context, I was reading Nelson Mandela’s Wikipedia article and specifically thinking about the fact that the CIA helped get Nelson Mandela arrested.
And then I also thought about the CIA’s role in the East Timor colonization and massacres, and also all the African socialist leaders they killed or deposed (thereby destabilizing their countries for decades), and also their role in the Pinochet coup/regime in Chile and also…
I visited East Timor in the 2010's. It's kinda fucked. Their DoD had a limp from torture camps. The "nice places" in Dili were entirely Indonesians and they were beating kids in public at the mall and stuff. I think it was probably the most sincerely depressing country I've been to.
Definitely my first "holy shit I'm in the 3rd world" experience was being on a bus and looking out the window and seeing 2 guys on motorcycles park next to us and hand off a chicken and then drive away, like it was a kilo.
The GOP has been undermining American democracy—and the civil rights of women and minorities—for the 40 years of my adult life. So much good could have been done during all those years. So much rebuilding will need to be done if we can survive what’s happening now.
It's interesting that it was such a temporary arrangement, maybe the modern notion of terrorism has served to move the objectionable work of assassinating people that threaten our hegemony out of civilian government and into the military.
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Using the air bases to do it.
Even tho it was reported on, somehow it was still hush hush.
But also, Russia/USSR bad.
And also and also, China bad.
19 years 11 months 30 days left till that quarter falls but I'm not gonna hold your hand through this.
I don't like American exceptionalism, whether it's pro- or anti-. Just feels lazy.
The US is not justified in helping Israel commit genocide against Palestinians.
The US isn't ontologically evil, it's just really really powerful. Being axiomatically anti-US is intellectually lazy