American jaunts into other people's countries.

[ChicagoBlue]

https://www.google.com.au/search?cl...Rsf_ZAhUVwGMKHa2NC9QQ7xYIISgA&biw=360&bih=660
Plenty of links on the first 3 pages.

Who are the aggressors?

Also, The Marshall Islands and the way the Americans treat the inhabitants of that island now and more importantly using them as human guinea pigs on the human exposure to radiation.
People on those islands still dying from high thyroid cancer rates today, and is where Sponge Bob was brough to us from.
Bikini Atole or better known as Bikini bottom.
Also Bikini was a word invented by America after they did what they did to make Bikini related to something glamorous rather than the disgusting treatment of these poor people from Bikini Atole :(

(The bold and underlined is false information which has been corrected a few posts after this one)

Ricster,

I am familiar with the Politico chart and article, which you are stretching beyond credulity with the notion of 400+ “bases” encircling China! Most people think of a “base” as a place you roll up to and see soldiers, aircraft, numbers, and the material of war. Heck, by your definition, I have a “base” at the end of my street!

I can see from your articles and protestations that it is a lost cause, so I’ll leave it there. I hope you can sleep at night with all those bad Americans seeking to take over the world and cause WWIII by enveloping China with over 400 bases!

 

[robbieh]

Even a cursory glance at Wikipedia will show that the US from its inception has either directly, using military force, or indirectly, using money to support opposition groups, been trying to overthrow governments around the world. It wants control and influence. Also as the alpha capitalist country it wants profit. Everything it does is based on this from the vast fast food industry to the resulting enormous pharmaceutical industry.
And war is a business like any other. In fact it is better. Buy stuff, use it, replace it. If there was no war the likes of Lockheed, BAE would start making computers or cars instead.
For many countries war is destructive, towns, people and infrastructure gone. But for America apart from their civil war, war has been good. It takes place in a foreign land. And the US often gets the contracts to rebuild what they have reduced to rubble.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

And the Marshall Islands which belonged to Japan.
Read my post above for more details

Did you say “belonged” to Japan? If so, after WWII, they “belonged” to the United States! Or, maybe you think we should give up all the lands of the world to the first humans from Africa? How far back, and how many wars, do you want to unravel before declaring “belonging”? Maybe we should give Britain back to the Italians?!

Wikipedia:
Micronesian colonists reached the Marshall Islands using canoes circa 2nd millennium BC, with inter-island navigation made possible using traditional stick charts. They eventually settled here.[7] Islands in the archipelago were first explored by Europeans in the 1520s, starting with Ferdinand Magellan of Portugal and Miguel de Saavedra of Spain. Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar reported sighting an atoll in August 1526.[7]Other expeditions by Spanish and English ships followed. The islands derive their name from British explorer John Marshall, who visited in 1788. The islands were historically known by the inhabitants as "jolet jen Anij" (Gifts from God).[8]

Spain claimed the islands in 1592 and the European powers recognized its sovereignty over the islands in 1874. They had been part of the Spanish East Indies formally since 1528. Later, Spain sold the islands to the German Empire in 1885, and they became part of German New Guinea that year, run by the trading companies doing business in the islands, particularly the Jaluit Company.[7] In World War I the Empire of Japan occupied the Marshall Islands, which in 1920, the League of Nations combined with other former German territories to form the South Pacific Mandate. During World War II, the United States conquered the islands in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign in 1944. Nuclear testing began in 1946 on Bikini Atoll after residents were evacuated. Over the years, 67 weapon tests were conducted, including the 15-megaton Castle B.

Carry on...

 

[SWP's back]

And the Marshall Islands which belonged to Japan.
Read my post above for more details

Who did Japan take it off?

How back you wanting to go?

We should really give Poland back to the Germans as well then.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Even a cursory glance at Wikipedia will show that the US from its inception has either directly, using military force, or indirectly, using money to support opposition groups, been trying to overthrow governments around the world. It wants control and influence. Also as the alpha capitalist country it wants profit. Everything it does is based on this from the vast fast food industry to the resulting enormous pharmaceutical industry.
And war is a business like any other. In fact it is better. Buy stuff, use it, replace it. If there was no war the likes of Lockheed, BAE would start making computers or cars instead.
For many countries war is destructive, towns, people and infrastructure gone. But for America apart from their civil war, war has been good. It takes place in a foreign land. And the US often gets the contracts to rebuild what they have reduced to rubble.

One of the interesting thing about profit...only make it if the people want to buy what you’re selling!

America asserts power and influence to protect itself from ever having to have war on its own soil. It protects its industries and its people (which are the two things that make up its society) from the vagaries of both indisividuals who would do it harm, and regimes that would seek to usurp it.

Anyone who thinks countries only assert their influence within their own borders needs to get out more. And, there is a difference between proactive protection and malfeasance, even if you don’t agree with either or their outcomes.

I’m no fan of America having its finger in every pie AT ALL, but I’d rather America have a finger in it than China or Russia, whom I don’t trust as far as I could throw them. And, I can only throw America slightly further than both!

 

[brass neck]

Everything will change starting March 26th. The Petrodollar has been the cause of much of American rabid imperialism. Next week potentially will see America hold over oil beginning to weaken. Let's see how they react.

 

[SWP's back]

Everything will change starting March 26th. The Petrodollar has been the cause of much of American rabid imperialism. Next week potentially will see America hold over oil beginning to weaken. Let's see how they react.

Go on.... link us all up so we’re on the same page.

 

[stonerblue]

Discuss

Governments the US has overthrown since the end of World War II:

- Iran 1953
- Guatemala 1954
- British Guiana 1953-64
- Iraq 1963
- Cambodia 1955-70
- Laos 1958,1959,1960
- Ecuador 1960-63
- Congo 1960
- Brazil 1962-64
- Dominican Republic 1963
- Bolivia 1964
- Indonesia 1965
- Ghana 1966
- Chile 1964-73
- Greece 1967
- Bolivia 1971
- Australia 1973-75
- Portugal 1974-76
- Jamaica 1976-80
- Chad 1981-82
- Grenada 1983
- Fiji 1987
- Nicaragua 1981-90
- Burkina Faso 1987
- Panama 1989
- Bulgaria 1990
- Albania 1991
- Afghanistan 1980s
- Yugoslavia 1999-2000
- Ecuador 2000
- Afghanistan 2001
- Venezuela 2002 (briefly successful)
- Iraq 2003
- Haiti 2004
- Honduras 2009
- Libya 2011
- Ukraine 2014

You'll forgive those of us who think twice about what we're being told.

You missed out Russia, or more precisely Gorbachev

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

All large nations want to exercise control over the wider world; they just have different ways of going about it, none of them especially edifying or altruistic.

 

[robbieh]

One of the interesting thing about profit...only make it if the people want to buy what you’re selling!

America asserts power and influence to protect itself from ever having to have war on its own soil. It protects its industries and its people (which are the two things that make up its society) from the vagaries of both indisividuals who would do it harm, and regimes that would seek to usurp it.

Anyone who thinks countries only assert their influence within their own borders needs to get out more. And, there is a difference between proactive protection and malfeasance, even if you don’t agree with either or their outcomes.

I’m no fan of America having its finger in every pie AT ALL, but I’d rather America have a finger in it than China or Russia, whom I don’t trust as far as I could throw them. And, I can only throw America slightly further than both!

CB. That is a very good reply to my post. Balanced and gives me food for thought.

The fact is it is difficult to gauge how untrustworthy China are. In recent history they have been invaded by the Japanese on various occasions. And unlike the US and Russia are not involved in adventurism in the middle east.
I suspect the one party state worries people but the reality is that American democracy is hardly in a healthy place