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

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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.

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Comment by [deleted] at 03/12/2019 at 18:38 UTC

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Ukraine 2014. That's just straight up Russian propaganda claiming euro maidian was a USA driven coup.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/12/2019 at 18:55 UTC

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Yeah exactly: the 1953 general workers uprising in East Berlin was hardly a US coup

Comment by [deleted] at 03/12/2019 at 19:45 UTC

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Literally, half of this is untrue. Like you had the opportunity to really go after us, why bull shit half of this shit, when our CIA loves to overthrow people.

Comment by psychodogcat at 03/12/2019 at 20:32 UTC

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I'm watching a docuseries on the war in Vietnam right now (I'm actually living in Vietnam now, they don't talk about the war much) and it is so, so complicated. Not the straightforward "why didn't the US just get out of Nam??" but it does make JFK look pretty bad. Pretty much all sides sucked. The US actually originally were going to help out the North but kind of.. forgot. It's called The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and its on Netflix, I recommend watching it. Seems pretty unbiased

Comment by HerbyDrinks at 03/12/2019 at 20:49 UTC

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It's almost like it's a stupid tiktok video.

Comment by Speciou5 at 03/12/2019 at 19:58 UTC

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Vietnam should definitely be in there if her point is that America is not innocent/there's justified reasons for foreigners to hate America.

There's definitely some resentment and ill will to America from the war you know because America did stuff like bomb them with war chemicals.

Comment by ZombieCharltonHeston at 04/12/2019 at 05:20 UTC

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Somalia 1993. The UN peacekeeping operation that involved Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Spain, South Korea, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Zimbabwe.

Comment by ScrewAttackThis at 03/12/2019 at 19:32 UTC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_uprisings_in_Iraq

Comment by [deleted] at 04/12/2019 at 01:47 UTC

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Comment by vaggion at 04/12/2019 at 00:01 UTC

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Also the greece 1967 is 100% bullshit

Comment by abrac97 at 01/01/2020 at 21:36 UTC

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Venezuela 2002, USA wasn’t involved at all, especially since the coup hardly qualifies. There was no organization really, till the military asked Chavez for his resignation. The same military which reinstated him a day later because shit was just too crazy. Also Venezuela 2019, the most the USA did was recognize Guaidó. I’m all for calling out US imperialism, but I’m not here for poorly researched statements, false examples, or “examples” whose sources stem from propaganda rather than legitimate historical sources

Comment by ominous_anonymous at 03/12/2019 at 22:45 UTC

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also vietnam starts in 1945, but that was the french for about 20 years.

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

It was much longer than 20 years in Vietnam for the French.

Comment by lanluz at 04/12/2019 at 10:31 UTC

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Iraq 1991 was a result of U.S and Saudi policy on Iran and Iraq war, selling weapons on both sides,and then shafting their former ally iraq afterwards.

Comment by SBGoldenCurry at 04/12/2019 at 12:00 UTC

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The US was an Ally of Vietnam and then ignored their plea for help and refused to come to their aid and allowed the french to take over.

Id say that counts.

Comment by tanis_ivy at 03/12/2019 at 19:40 UTC

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Tbh, at some point in history there has been a place that tried to take over the world. America is just the latest.

Comment by XavierSimmons at 03/12/2019 at 19:48 UTC

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But the conspiracy theory on that was that we told Kuwait to slant-drill into Iraq knowing that Iraq would take issue with it. And then we told Iraq, "hey, they're slant-drilling into your country, and if you do something about it then we'll sit by and watch." Then when Iraq moved in, we mobilized and invaded Iraq.

But you probably knew that.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/12/2019 at 19:50 UTC

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like iraq 1991. the us just repelled the invading army from kuwait.

This was the Egyptian army I guess?

Comment by Souless04 at 03/12/2019 at 21:12 UTC

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It doesn't have to be direct and conspicuous involvement.

USA supported Iran's attempt to overthrow Saddam Husain.

Comment by Sk8tr_Boi at 04/12/2019 at 03:16 UTC

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Just because USA doesn't directly participate in wars don't mean they don't send arms. The french didn't evacuate the majority of american troops from Saigon. USA did. French eh?

Comment by [deleted] at 03/12/2019 at 21:11 UTC

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wrong. we went to war in 1991 because saddam was not bending over for the united states. Saddam was ramping up oil production which lowered the price of oil, if he was allowed to take kuwait and saudia arabia. the united states would enter a depression because those states used the petro dollar.