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created by GirlsInaGif on 03/12/2019 at 18:22 UTC

26290 upvotes, 70 top-level comments (showing 25)

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Comment by [deleted] at 03/12/2019 at 20:33 UTC

1976 upvotes, 6 direct replies

Now do Britain.

Comment by psychodogcat at 03/12/2019 at 18:46 UTC

2499 upvotes, 24 direct replies

Anyone want to spend like 30 minutes fact checking all of this? There are a couple of copies on there which is funny

Comment by Djinjja-Ninja at 03/12/2019 at 19:51 UTC

944 upvotes, 7 direct replies

A couple of these *really* stood out.

East Germany 1953? While they were under occupation by Soviet forces? Really?

Egypt 1957 I assume refers to the Suez crisis, that was pretty much all Britain and France's fault, if anything the US wanted a diplomatic solution to the situation, and actually came out of the whole thing with better overall relations with Egypt

British Guiana 1953-64? They were a British colony until 1966, an the *British* occupied it in 1953 after suspending the constitution and assumed direct rule until 1957.

There's more than enough places around the world that the US *has* tried to impose its hegemony over that you can include without throwing ones that are just factually incorrect into the mix and weakening/destroying your own point.

Having said that, the Australian one really stood out and made me go "WTF? Thats just mental. Australia? No way!", until I looked it up, then I pretty much had the same reaction but in a different direction.

Apparently the CIA and MI6 attempted (and succeeded) to oust the democratically elected Prime Minister of Australia[1] by having the Governor General sack him

1: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence

Comment by [deleted] at 03/12/2019 at 19:10 UTC

27 upvotes, 2 direct replies

I was looking for this part too but thanks! https://youtu.be/qZ1FTXzi84E

Comment by ReluctantRedditor275 at 03/12/2019 at 21:45 UTC

26 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Old Guatemalan joke: Why has America never had a coup? Because there's no U.S. Embassy in Washington, DC.

Comment by WhataburgerThiccc at 03/12/2019 at 18:59 UTC

250 upvotes, 4 direct replies

This isn't that cool though

Comment by squirrelhut at 03/12/2019 at 21:19 UTC

39 upvotes, 1 direct replies

God I hate tiktok

Comment by potentpotables at 03/12/2019 at 18:35 UTC

646 upvotes, 13 direct replies

a lot of these aren't even true, like iraq 1991. the us just repelled the invading army from kuwait. also vietnam starts in 1945, but that was the french for about 20 years.

others certainly are true, but you don't really have to pad it.

Comment by teksimian at 03/12/2019 at 19:43 UTC*

109 upvotes, 6 direct replies

What should I get out of this exactly? Long live the iron curtain and the East German government?

Comment by ToXiC_Games at 03/12/2019 at 19:14 UTC

255 upvotes, 12 direct replies

China 1949-1960? Wtf? Yeah we helped the national forces cause we were trying to stop a bloodthirsty dictator from killing 50 million of his people.

Comment by ZeusJuice at 03/12/2019 at 20:00 UTC

99 upvotes, 1 direct replies

This is a trash post good god

Comment by Doobz87 at 03/12/2019 at 19:03 UTC

191 upvotes, 6 direct replies

Yeah **a lot** of this is bullshit. Ukraine made me legit laugh.

Comment by Quartnsession at 04/12/2019 at 00:44 UTC

88 upvotes, 7 direct replies

Isn't TikTok a Chinese app? Don't they have modern day concentration camps?

Comment by Aussie-Nerd at 04/12/2019 at 01:32 UTC*

15 upvotes, 1 direct replies

*And Australia, sort of.**

This one is super complicated but basically PM Whitlam was removed from office by Queen's representative Governor General John Kerr. There's a bunch of reasons for this and it's still debated about was this correct or not. Just Google *The Dismissal* to find more info.

One thing many people don't know, even Australians, is the potential influence from the CIA.

**Kerr** was not only the Queen’s man, he had longstanding ties to Anglo-American intelligence. He was an enthusiastic member of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, described by Jonathan Kwitny of the Wall Street Journal in his book, The Crimes of Patriots, as “an elite, invitation-only group … exposed in Congress as being founded, funded and generally run by the **CIA”**.

The CIA “paid for Kerr’s travel, built his prestige … Kerr continued to go to the CIA for money”. When Whitlam was re-elected for a second term, in 1974, the White House sent Marshall Green to Canberra as ambassador. Green was an imperious, sinister figure who worked in the shadows of America’s “deep state”. Known as “the coupmaster”.

In the 1980s, senior CIA officers revealed that the *“Whitlam problem”* had been discussed *“with urgency”* by the **CIA’s director, William Colby**, and the head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield. A deputy director of the CIA said: **“Kerr did what he was told to do.”**

If you want more details, including why the CIA wanted the change, read this.

*tldr** CIA may have used a compromised Queen's representative to overthrow the Australian gov in 1975.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/12/2019 at 19:18 UTC

158 upvotes, 4 direct replies

Imagine thinking that the US's efforts to reunify Germany was a bad thing.

Comment by SmallzMafia at 03/12/2019 at 20:21 UTC

61 upvotes, 1 direct replies

My god it’s so cringey...

Comment by N0_Tr3bbl3 at 03/12/2019 at 18:40 UTC

442 upvotes, 4 direct replies

When you don't know shit about geopolitics or history, but still want to be in a meme...

This should go to r/tiktokcringe

Comment by Iohet at 03/12/2019 at 20:14 UTC

25 upvotes, 2 direct replies

How to somewhat look like and manage to actually be more condescending than Julia Stiles appears to be

Comment by FOKvothe at 04/12/2019 at 06:30 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Yeah, USA should just have left Serbia do what it wanted in Yugoslavia. Genocide is of course just a personal matter.

Comment by luckytorp at 04/12/2019 at 11:53 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

France 1965. What ?

Comment by mrbaggins at 04/12/2019 at 00:25 UTC

8 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I was WTF at Australia being on there in 1975... Apparnetly there's a theory that they were involved in the Whitlam Dismissal