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@Esperacchi @DavyDXebeccc @tiberiusfiles Also, not “my country” and not “looting.” Just a very simplified take on a complex global system.

@ShadowedSun0805 @DavyDXebeccc @tiberiusfiles Your country loots 2.2 trillion dollars per year from the global south, maybe it’s time you get some perspective

America…? A moral compass…? *clears throat* The United States was built on genocide and ethnic cleansing In 1898 it declared itself a ‘global power’ by crushing independence movements in the Philippines, killing at least 200k Filipino civilians From 1912 to 1933 it occupied Nicaragua, violently suppressing nationalist movements From 1915 to 1934 it invaded and occupied Haiti, essentially legalising slave labour From 1916 to 1924 it done the same to the Dominican Republic In 1945 it needlessly dropped two atomic bombs on civilians days before they knew Japan was to surrender, in a ‘display of strength’ to the Soviets In 1953 it overthrew Iran’s democracy in an act of pure self-interest In 1954 it overthrew Guatemala’s democracy leading to decades of violence In 1965 it backed mass killings in Indonesia, enabling the murder of up to a million people In the 1960’s and 1970’s it carpet-bombed Vietnam, killed millions, and poisoned the land From 1969 to 1973 it also carpet-bombed Cambodia with similar effects In 1973 it installed a dictatorship in Chile through a military coup From 1979 to 1989 it armed and funded Afghan militias, destabilising the country for decades In the 1990s it strangled Iraq with sanctions, devastating millions In 2003 it invaded Iraq on a lie, leading to a million dead In 2011 it destroyed Libya, turning a functioning state into a failed one where slave markets now exist In the 2020s it continues unabated, funding and arming the Gaza genocide and more atrocities across the Middle East This is not even close to an exhaustive list of US crimes So, what’s very, very important to understand is not that the United States has lost its ‘moral compass’ — it’s that it’s lost its ability to rewrite history in real time because the internet exists It has lost total control of the narrative Or, in short, now we’re able to see what it really is, and always has been

@VersaceValerio @DavyDXebeccc @tiberiusfiles No one denied questionable US actions, that was already acknowledged. The point was that reducing everything to a single, coordinated system of exploitation is an oversimplification.

@ShadowedSun0805 @DavyDXebeccc @tiberiusfiles It's not a conspiracy, they have always been operating in the open. You just apply different moral and ethical standards to the US and the rest of the world. If any other power did what the US does and always did you'be calling for its invasion

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@JeanTourloop @tiberiusfiles Nope, the US entered the war in 1941 following the attack on Pearl Harbor and was already fighting against Germany in North Africa by 1942. That was long before the decisive turning point on the Eastern Front, when it first became clear that Germany could lose.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles Nope, the US came to my country when they saw that soviets were winning the war by themselves.

@pedrohendo @tiberiusfiles There was no joint, coordinated plan between Churchill and Eisenhower to take Berlin together with the Red Army. Eisenhower argued that the occupation zone plans that had been agreed upon would have forced the West to withdraw from Berlin in any case.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles They were calling for two fronts from Stalingrad. They'd agreed to enter Berlin together, Churchill told Eisenhower not to trust him, which turned out to be true. Unfortunately, by this time the UK was out of any postwar carve up. US- USSR power share.

@pedrohendo @tiberiusfiles The Soviets carried the heaviest burden, yes, but forcing Germany into a two-front war was a major strategic shift, not just help. And Eisenhower made a conscious decision not to race to Berlin because it had already been agreed that the city would fall within the Soviet zone.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles Whilst Easy company were in the Berghof, the Soviets were taking Sachsenhausen, and were already on Berlin. Creating 2 fronts helped, but wasn't wholly responsible. Churchill told Eisenhower where they were going, and was ignored.

@The_Only_Cult @tiberiusfiles US companies were a factor, but by no means decisive in the sense of “no war without them" or can you back that up? The US was already fighting Germany in North Africa (1942) and Italy (1943). D-Day wasn’t the start.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles 1. Fair point, they entered the war in 1941. Maintained formal neutrality. They didn't enter nazi-held Europe until 1944. 2. US businesses were major funders of the n4zis until 1941. Without them, it's highly unlikely Germany could've got as far as they did. US's fault 100%

@pedrohendo @tiberiusfiles Both the US and the USSR made extensive use of German technology, but this occurred after the war ended and in the context of the Cold War. The US entered the war in response to the direct attack on Pearl Harbor. Rocket programs came after the war, not before it.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles The Soviets did for the Nazis, late comers were just looking for rocket research.

@domquixote974 @tiberiusfiles “Late,” yes, but for political and military reasons, not as a deliberate act of betrayal. And the US was already supplying the Allies, including the Soviets, on a massive scale before 1941.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles By turning up two years late, and letting the Russians soak up all the casualties, then traitorously betraying an ally. The rest of the world reads boks

@domquixote974 @tiberiusfiles Was there ever a genuine alliance that could be betrayed? They worked together to defeat Nazi Germany, were not natural allies.

@DavyDXebeccc @tiberiusfiles Dollar dominance is a reality, power imbalances exist, criticism of the IMF and WB is legitimate, but you reduce all into a single, calculated conspiracy, to exploitation, ignoring cooperation, self-interest of other nations and internal factors within the affected countries.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles There’s no oversimplification. The global reserve is the USD & in conjunction with EU thru the IMF & the US thru the world Bank, the west has used economic terrorism to exploit & stymie other nations to their own benefit. Destabilizing Iran & Iraq to secure THEIR oil, etc.

@DavyDXebeccc @tiberiusfiles while what's happening in Gaza is deeply tragic and widely condemned on humanitarian grounds, using the term “Holocaust” as an analogy is highly contested globally, not because people deny suffering in Gaza, but because the comparison itself carries a unique historical weight.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles Control to avoid war? Let’s stick to that then. -Kissinger IN THE 70’s Carpet bombing Laos & Cambodia especially to the extent that there are STILL ordinances there till today. -The illegal war in Iraq. -The illegal war in Iran. -The funding of the Holocaust of Gaza. Enough?

@DavyDXebeccc @tiberiusfiles Laos/Cambodia and the Iraq war are serious and valid. But there's no - comparable - “war in Iran".

@The_Only_Cult @tiberiusfiles The US entered 2, not 5 years later and while some companies had pre-war business ties, that’s not the same as “building the Nazi war machine.” The camp infrastructure was run by the Nazi state.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles They waited five years to join the fight against the Nazis lol. Prior to 1943 dozens of American businesses actually funded and supplied the Nazis. How do you think they built up their military so fast? American companies built the railroads to the camps.

@DavyDXebeccc @tiberiusfiles global inequality is real and parts of our standard of living are connected to it, true. But you’re collapsing a very complex global system into a single cause and framing it as a single, intentional system where everything is designed that way oversimplifies things quite a bit.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles The drugs you intake, fuel you use, food you eat, safety you enjoy DAILY comes at the expense of someone across the world who lives in INSTABILITY. And it’s not a coincidence, it’s a feature of western imperialism to take from others & call them terrorists when they speak up.

@DavyDXebeccc @tiberiusfiles "Control" in international relations means a balance of power and the avoidance of major wars, not moral approval of the way power is exercised. Mentioning slavery is a strong moral argument, yes, but it's not the same category.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles “Controlled international system.” You keep missing the point. There was “control” in America when Africans were enslaved & BRED for cheap labor. Education is the fuel of revolution & the Americana propaganda can’t withstand the scrutiny of the dead it built YOUR stability on.

@sanaya_bae @tiberiusfiles The USSR's sacrificies were massive, yes, but they didn’t win the war alone. The US kept their army supplied, the Western Allies opened a second front, and constant bombing weakened Germany’s ability to wage war. Now take any one of those factors away.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles soviets contributed more to defeating the nazis lmao

@DavyDXebeccc @tiberiusfiles No one’s denying the harm, Iraq was devastating, and the Cuba embargo has real human costs. And by stability, what is meant here is a relatively predictable, controlled international system, not a just or peaceful life for everyone.

@ShadowedSun0805 @tiberiusfiles Are you a fool? Stability for who exactly? Do you think the Cubans it’s blockading to death currently with innocent babies in incubators being left for dead because of the ban on oil care about YOUR stability? Think the MILLION Iraqi it killed care about YOUR stability?

@Thedudeshub these pictures are probably about 25 years old?

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