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Aljazeera live feed on USA crimes in Nigeria (www.aljazeera.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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[–] 16 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Sure, it's not like the US has based its entire nation's foreign policy in literally hand-picking leaders in other nations either by coups, black ops, invasions, and whatever you can imagine. But let's give them the benefit of the doubt because US can't be as bad as Russia or China, right? It's funny, you people are always the one that complain about whababubism.

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  • [+] -10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    People are making legal arguments, so I pointed out the flaw in it.

    Morally and strategically, the US is a neocolonial power just like China and Russia. China and the US is probably at the same level of exploitation with their methods being economic in nature. Russian being worse given they like to foster internal conflcit in order to keep their resource exploitation in place.

    Also, Nigeria has had a democratic government since 1999. The last coup was in 1993. So it would not be fair to infer they are a puppet government of the US. There are other examples of that.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Russian being worse given they like to foster internal conflcit in order to keep their resource exploitation in place.

    I have some bad news for you about the origins of South Korea, South Vietnam, and ISIS. Also, what do you thing a coup is if not fostering internal conflict?

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  • [+] -6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I was referring to the last 35 years. Before then the US strategy was different. Their tactics are different now. China also made the same change.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    Dawg what? The US strategy is primarily coups, bombings, piracy, working through proxies and fomenting fundamentalist and separatist movements which are, again, exactly what you villify others for. What the hell is China doing in your estimation that even approaches that level? This is just the classic "sure we did (bad thing we are still doing) in the past, but at least we've changed unlike (countries your government wants you to hate that are not doing those things)"

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  • [+] -7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    You are probably correct that the Trump government is returning to the "good old days", so I concede that point around their current policies.

    The predominant strategy from the US and China has been to leverage corruption in regional governments to obtain control of strategic assest like ports, transport hubs, mineral resouces etc, and then place those assets under the control of a few party adjacent corporations. Thus they extract those resources over local companies in the region. After making sure that the local politcal elite gets their miniscule cut of course.

    Economic neocolonialism. Far less shooting and a lot more wealth extraction from a country.

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