A lot of people comparing Trump to the neocons but im not sure that's entirely right. The neocons were usually fixated on the language of universalism and presenting the use of American power as part of a benign global project.
Trump's is just a nakedly amoral resource grab...
A list of the US regime change efforts in Latin America over the years:
1846–1848 – Mexico
1898 – Cuba
1903 - Panama
1906–1909 - Cuba
1909 - Nicaragua
1912–1933 - Nicaragua
1913 -Mexico
1914 - Mexico
1915–1934 - Haiti
1916–1924 - Dominican Republic
1916–1917 - Mexico
1932 – El Salvador
1933–1940s – Cuba
1944 – Guatemala
1946 – Bolivia
1948 – Costa Rica
1952 – Cuba
1953–1954 – British Guiana
1954 – Guatemala
1960s: Cold War Escalation
1960–1961 – Cuba
1961 – Cuba
1961 – Dominican Republic
1962–1963 – Brazil
1963 – Dominican Republic
1963 – Ecuador
1963 – Honduras
1964 – Brazil
1964 – Bolivia
1965 – Dominican Republic
1966–1996 – Guatemala
1970s: Operation Condor Era
1970–1973 – Chile
1971 – Bolivia
1973 – Chile
1973 – Uruguay
1976 – Argentina
1976–1983 – Region-wide (Operation Condor)
1979 – Nicaragua
1980–1989 – Nicaragua
1980–1992 – El Salvador
1980s – Honduras
1980–1992 – Guatemala
1980s – Jamaica
1982 – Bolivia
1983 – Grenada
1989 – Panama
1991 – Haiti
1994 – Haiti
2002 – Venezuela
2004 – Haiti
2009 – Honduras
2019 – Bolivia
2017–present – Venezuela
2018–present – Nicaragua
Every U.S. president from 1901–present has been involved in Latin American regime change. The US remains an imperialist presence in Latin America.
@CircuitCorroder@SleeeeepyT@memeticsisyphus Humans from hundreds of years ago are still humans, and not a subspecies of humans, right?
If you have evidence to the contrary, please share it with the rest of the world. Lol.
@CircuitCorroder@SleeeeepyT@memeticsisyphus lol.
It does mean something. Without human intervention, it wouldn’t have happened.
Humans created dog breeds AND that new subspecies of bird.
Humans, on the other hand, did not create new human species.
Amazing, right? lol
@jmasseypoet This is just wrong. It was the collective that allowed the freedom for those things to happen, due to security. Read your Hobbes.
Rugged individualism is all against all. For conservatives, it just means that anything that threatens their power is bad.
@JoshWalkos I’m cool with it.
Kidnapping a foreign leader for drug charges, while a bigger drug lord was just pardoned, though? Pretty scary how the US is acting, right? Almost like a renegade government, or something,