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What frustrates me most is that USA can organize coup d'etat in Latin America and other countries, whereas it is much more likely it won't be reciprocated.

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Can you please expand and add some links? As someone who worked for Latin banks and lived globally, I would like to hear more.

There's also the one that displaced my family

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War

Wow that is unspeakably horrible. Truly inexcusable.

Maybe you'd like to read more about Operation PBSuccess - they sure didn't call it that because it failed. [1] The US (specifically the CIA) replaced a democratically elected "socialist" in Guatemala with a right-wing authoritarian military dictator at the request of what is now the Chiquita fruit company. This of course kick-started a civil war that lasted 36 years.

On the plus side, it gave us "Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas" [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27état

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZtAKHnqkf4&t=120s

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

Not op, but it's pretty well researched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Interesting it lists right wing and left wing focus. Sounds like the US is bias towards the middle. Not sure how to groc that. Most likely it is what is important to the nation at the time would be a better qualification. History repeats itself. Thank you for sharing the links all.

The US bias when, uh, intervening in foreign politics is towards whatever's best of the US. Usually, more specifically, US corporate interests. Little care is paid to who ends up in charge so long as they're pro-"Business" and pro-America.

Looping back. That was I said or at least was trying to convey. It is what the the nation, US in this case, finds in their best interest.

Ah gotcha! :) sounds like we're in violent agreement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gideon_(2020)

This is just the tip of the iceberg. It's world-wide. Iran, China, the list goes on.

> In December 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that the United States did not plan a military intervention in Venezuela, saying that "we have said that all options are on the table", but that "we have learned from history that the risks from using military force are significant".

There has been zero proven connection between that operation with any US gov office nor even Guaidó himself. It was 100% amateur hour and initiated by a con man’s security company.

As a Venezuelan and victim of Maduro's constant anti imperialist propaganda I strongly believe the operation gedeon is just a fake. If the US would like to remove Maduro from power I don't think they would send 30 poorly trained, barely equipped men, from which the grand majority didn't even have military experience to disembark in one of the most popular coasts of Venezuela just a few kilometers from a navy base.

If you want to read more from a great independent news site https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2020/05/05/the-macutazo-ti...

Members of Congress have literally referred to it as a coup on Twitter, it’s not some big secret or something you can choose not to believe in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24052507

That’s some nice, completely irrelevant what-about-ism

Do you denounce the grandparent's comment about international economic rules as whataboutism too? The topic is Tencent's acquisition, not international economic rules.

Well considering the fact that the grandparent comment wasn’t about the WTO, why would it need to be denounced?

I read the threading order wrong. Corrected.

no, I don't, its absolutely relevant to the discussion about business and game industry economics.

so then you must take China as a better steward of the global order? you believe China should be able to bully the US, like the US has 'bullied' others? you believe they are on the side of justice?

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