USA about Democracy

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[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I was watching the first bit of “American Coup” on Amazon about supposedly the CIA’s first orchestration of the overthrow of a foreign government by ousting Mosaddegh from Iran in 1953. Parts of it were quite fascinating but then it just sort of devolved.

[–]Hopesedge 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are a few times the US have done stuff like that, usually it's when countries had a leader that leaned towards communism, the US would often step in, overthrow their rule and instil a new leader of their own. The one I found most interesting is the one they did with Argentina, when they started and backed a Coup d'état to overthrow the president at the time, it was successful and the governing body they put into power went on to start the Falklands war against the UK, after the UK pulled off a stunning victory over Argentina in recovering the islands the military dictatorship collapsed. So it could be said that the US caused the Falklands war by meddling in foreign affairs.