The United States of America has become the biggest aggressor and oppressor on this planet. They went from being “upholders of democracy” just after WW2 to downright Nazi-land.

They haven’t won a single war without the help of their European allies and yet have all these military bases around the world that help fund their disgusting military-industry complex and put on this pseudo narrative of being global peace-keepers when all they have done is kill innocent people, and raped women and children.

Their latest victim is going to be Nigeria and unless other countries band together to boycott and sanction the US, nothing will change.

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’m skeptical there was ever actually a time the US empire was a positive force in the world or even neutral, we’ve been doing messed up stuff for our entire existence as a country.

    • mlegstrong@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      3 days ago

      There are plenty of things America has done wrong but it’s a straw-man to say it’s only been bad. The Marshal plan is a clear example of America doing a clearly good thing even. Just cuz it’s a mess right now doesn’t mean it is always the case

      • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        BS, they profited directly from it as it was done by US companies and partially in loans.
        Not as important as the “upholders of democracy” at the same time making Europe their vassals OC.
        Pure self interest.

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        31·
        3 days ago

        A straw man argument is one where you are misrepresenting an opposing position, so I don’t think the term quite fits here. I’m not trying to claim it’s never done anything good, but even the arguably good things have always been more about calculated self interest than any real concern for human rights or welfare:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

        The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to aid in the economic recovery of nations after World War II and secure US geopolitical influence over Western Europe.

        The only major powers whose infrastructure had not been significantly harmed in World War II were the United States and Canada.[30][31] They were much more prosperous than before the war, but exports were a small factor in their economy. Much of the Marshall Plan aid would be used by the Europeans to buy manufactured goods and raw materials from the United States and Canada.

        WW2 left the country in a position of relative economic power, and in the following decades it used its greater influence the same way it had before (eg. the wars in Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba etc.), to advance the cause of global capitalist exploitation and brutally suppressing even democratic opposition to it.

        To me the main change here doesn’t seem like the US becoming substantially more evil than the already substantial evils of the past, just getting worse at acting coherently in its own interests, acting against its allies instead of just geopolitically marginalized victims.