"The US Doesn't Meddle In Foreign Affairs"
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- We all heard President Biden give the hypothetical...what would it be like if the United States meddled in foreign affairs? If you're even remotely familiar with US history, you should realize that's an absurd question to ask. The United States is guilty of the most foreign interventions of any nation, by far. We've interfered in places like Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, Bolivia, and dozens of other countries, especially those in the global south. In this episode, we'll debunk the myth that the US doesn't meddle in foreign affairs, and explain that our interventions are not in the name of "freedom and democracy."
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Obama and Biden clips from intro:
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Democracy Now on US interventions:
• Overthrow: 100 Years o...
Books covering US imperialism, CIA and military interventions: library.uniteddiversity.coop/...
williamblum.org/books/killing...
archive.org/details/WilliamBl...
List of US military interventions since 1890:
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Chile: The Other 9/11:
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Dateline: Chile, 1973:
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PBS Frontline: War On Nicaragua:
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Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare:
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Venezuela coup plotters:
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CIA on Stalin:
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Wikipedia entries:
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America’s biggest fear is getting treated the way they treat foreign countries.
@@ninjaman815 its just the fear created by the media propaganda, a.k.a the incessant news pieces about China, Russia and even NK. It doesn’t need to be a rational one.
@@ninjaman815 that’s the fun thing about fear it doesn’t have to be based on reality it’s just the thought that’s enough
You just have to look at Brexit Britain for the start of that reality budding
@@ninjaman815 Roman Empire behaved the same. Now they are just history.
@@ninjaman815 they qill invade omce our empire collapses
Popular joke in Argentina: Do you know why there was never a coup in the United States?
Because there is no US embassy there.
January 6th 2021.
They tried and they failed.
@@jorenvanderark3567 Lmao “coup”
LMAO that's great!
@@justsomemainer1384 I'm sorry, what do you call it when an army of politically motivated people are sent by their leader to attack a country's seat of government with the express goal of invalidating an election & installing their leader instead?
@@dr.zoidberg8666 How do you call an army attacking/censoring political opposition, destroy governmental/civilians infrastructure and using fear to gain followers/demoralize for the 'greater good' ?
This is BLM, ANTIFA and the 'left' for the past years
"They were thrown with their stomach cut open.."
The US should be the last country to talk about human rights violation.
As a Mexican I agree
Especially now.
Allende's Chile coup is one of the most heartbreaking and angering. Never forget this 9/11
It's important for Americans to know this is how the world sees us. Not as a beacon of hope and democracy, but a greedy, dangerous and corrupt nation of corporate thieves
You mean, how we see ourselves?
I'm one of the few privileged to go on holiday to the US once, and have a family history of persecution by an US backed-dictatory. And i found that the average burger-head wasn't an aggressive moronic brute. But mostly friendly, if ignorant, people. I truly belive that if that good hearth wasn't corrupted by lies, the US could be a true place of hope for the future
How do we do that , I’m weak , my parents have some connections, what are we supposed to do , try to fight the devil ??? We can’t do that ( good luck I’m just gonna try to get a job , a regular life , if your gonna change something , then do it . ).
I didn't think there was so much hypocrisy in American government, but then I learned about Hawaii.
And that’s what we are. The people are also being tricked and taken advantage of. Look at Amazon workers, america is a plague man
Lmao, saying that the US doesn't interfere in foreign affairs is like saying that Snoop Dogg doesn't smoke weed.
Nice
You should probably listen to the content before commenting on the tittle
It’s like saying Kanye doesn’t love Kanye
@@jenyhooker1760 What I said isn't wrong tho, it is an extremely well known fact that the US does extensively meddle in foreign affairs. You don't really need to watch the entire video to know that (although you probably should).
Also, I DID watch the full video, and what I saw was just about what I expected to see.
It's like saying people don't die when they're killed
When I was going to University of Florida, I became friends with a student who was getting his Ph.D. in engineering. He and his family had to leave El Salvador because the military government, which was backed by the United States, had them all on a death list because he had the audacity to speak out against the murder of so many of his fellow countrymen. America has a really good track record like this in Central and South America. Goooo Amerka.
Why did he go to the US if he was on death watch?
@@aaronfield7899 He was on a death list,and he came to the U.S. on a work visa and was enrolled in a Ph.D. program in engineering at the University of Florida.. Because he had a work visa, he was able to bring his wife and 2 children. All of which would have been disappeared. The United States didn't put him on a list, the El Salvadoran Military did. which was backed by the United States.
@@jackt5617
I think his question is, why did he come to the country that supports that military government?
Contributing to the US economy by working there is only going to make it stronger, and more capable of supporting more bad governments in the future.
Why flee to the country that caused your problems?
@@LancesArmorStrikingBecause that's the whole point. The U.S. will destabilize a region, and the educated who resist are given the "choice" to come work in the U.S., a choice they can't really refuse. In this way, the U.S. drains a country of it's brainpower, it's intellectual political power, and enriches itself with new cheaper labor. Of course, those who aid in the destabilization get to live nice comfortable lives in Miami.
@@LancesArmorStrikingsometimes there is no choice
"history is often told by the victors" never been so true
As a Mexican (most invaded country in America) I agree (considering the robbery of 1848)
If that was true, we'd hear more about Russia's sacrifices that led to the defeat of the Austrian guy.
If the CIA's declassified operations are this terrible, The current classified stuff must be orders of magnitudes worst.
And the ones which were burnt.
yeah that's why you see these guys getting caught all of the time they're not even training people it's just contractors man
@@support_mage yes the monitoring is always more advanced than they say :K
covid cough cough*
The American intelligence agencies have a long history of classifying not just sensitive information but especially embarrassing information, and there is a LOT of classified embarrassing information.
I'm a old man from Argentina. All this is not news for me. But what is news to me is to see every day more young Americans, like this channel or Hasan Piker, telling the real part of the hegemony speech. In my college days we only hear Noam Chomsky from USA spreading an alternative speech. It seems the tide is turning
Viva Perón carajo!!
Hegemony speech? I couldn't find anything about that on Google. Anyone have a link?
@@halcyonacoustic7366 he means the story Americans tell them self about there history and wot there country is standing for.
Hope so brother
@@halcyonacoustic7366 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony
Even if every American knows this, and I think they do at this point. There's nothing we can do about it. Our government does not belong to its people but to corporate interests.
Also elites really do things to make American civilians have some kind of arrogance and superiority complex. "Yes. We will rule you".
But in reality elites are using American resources for corporates interest only
Imagine if the French hay said that about the kings...
@@caioluciosalles3046 I would very much like to be wrong about this.
@@caioluciosalles3046we’re too far removed from kings and mere military with just swords and axes. The “kings” today have missiles, tanks , nukes. I mean that’s a hell of feat to overcome
Nothing we can do? Like if we are all slaves to the powerful? What makes these sniveling cowards powerful? Intrinsically, nothing! Our LE and military are what protect these losers. So if you raised some idiot to join either terror group, perhaps try harder to talk them out of it and leave these crony losers to fight their own battles.
As a Chilean, this is very frustrating. Many of my family members were almost killed during Pinochet's dictatorship, some of them were exiled, and many people they knew were killed or disappeared.
“America doesn’t meddle in foreign affairs” and 20 other gut busting jokes you can tell your friends who have even a cursory knowledge of American geopolitics
The privilege I have to know past the propaganda and the world itself. Half the people in The US can’t name 10 different countries. I have been studying them and their history and geopolitical systems today. So I’m not that one idiot that says “Georgia isn’t a country it’s a state”
Write. The. Book.
It's brilliant, just do it!!
That includes ANYONE who's actually lived in America for any length of time!
who makes this claim
@@globallyfamouse6609 biden's the one that said it, it's in this video.
As a European I am shocked that this is an actual myth Americans believe...
There's a good reason why American history textbooks aren't as detailed in other country's history
America is number 1 and that's all they want us to know. If you bring this stuff up in public, people get defensive and call you an anti-american commie. And I live in one of the more progressive cities in the US- Portland, Oregon
I have to wonder what the last twenty years were? Do they think we went over to a foreign country to play patty cake or something?
The majority believe this, and the ones that do are...not open to other ideas. And they are the loud ones in the crowd
Never be shocked at American's ignorance...
As a Greek, thanks for helping incite the civil war after WW2 (mainly the Brits of course but you helped too) and the military junta in the 60s/70s (that one was all you). We truly appreciate it….
And what about Italy. Sicilian mafia was history until the yanks handed weapons and shit ton of money to them for an easy landing in Sicily
Did we seriously 9/11 Chile? Damn, we're really no better than Al Qaeda, huh
Correctamundo
America funded Al Qaeda
“The U.S. doesn’t meddle.” What do you think the C.I.A’s for?
Uhhh... Defending us in centeral ameri... I mean uhhh, selling things to centeral amrica to help develpment for money to overthr... I mean, uhhh, Putin, Putin, Putin, Russia, Hackers, Fuck off.
Well, it's theoretically just for observation.
@@maxthexpfarmer3957 - Och, Ja ... und a very CLOSE obzervation it ist!! Och
JA!!
so the cia meddles in other countries and the fbi meddles with my search history?
its basically like the USA is saying the CIA is useless lol
There’s a saying in Mexico that translates to “Poor Mexico so far from god and so close to the USA”
Damn.. 😫🙁
Omg
😅😅
Must be an old one
That's a good one
General Smedley Butler tried to tell us after WW I, "War Is A Racket." A gung-ho soldier suddenly realizes his entire career was for US corporate interests.
It's insane that most US citizens dont know about these things
most US citizens do not know about many more things they should, I´m affraid
When Obama said "we do it because it's right" a couple of those soldiers looked like they were trying not to smile/laugh
They probably thought; "Oh, no, not this same old stupid crap again!?"
Under Obama a hospital was bombed. Not by accident, it was the target. Doctors and nurses who volunteered for MSF were murdered.
Every world leader in charge, duringtimes of conflict(read as war)has knowingling sent thousands if not millions, to their deaths, not only during war, but, during "peacekeeping manuevers.". It NEVER really changes, even with changes in regimes, and, leaddrship! To paraphrase a cartoon, ; "Oh, don't look so shocked!"
Because everybody knows it. At this point, anyone who says other wise is in denial.
@@thesauce1682 everyone knows what?
The fiction that the US respects other countries' sovereignty is one I've never heard. The reason might be, I don't live in America.
In Russia we believe, that 90-s were attempt to "sell" whole country to US, as there were US advisors in Russian government. Back there US "loved" Russia, but as soon as one showed signs of cutting off foreign owners, that's it - we are enemies now.
The USA is an extension of British culture. There are in fact very few authentically indigenous elements of American culture, the best-known examples being jazz, blues, hip-hop, and basketball. The British will to dominate was imported to the US wholesale.
@@taterkaze9428 I think Carthage and Rome had the same thing going
@@taterkaze9428 gold, glory and god. You heard that phrase cuz it’s from the colonists that made America. We still follow that policy except the gold is oil.
@@taterkaze9428 Basketball was invented in Canada
Literally,nobody thought we don’t constantly mess about with other countries. It’s insane.
This is why smart people invest in propaganda. It's just work so damn well, worth every penny.
Why would this even need "debunking"?
That's like trying to debunk that "selling drugs isn't profitable"
Americans do, in fact, think that US of F is a freedomland and doesn't meddle.
The greater the wealth inequality, the more resources capitalists have to prevent socialism. Propaganda included.
Gigabrain US: Can't meddle in foreign affairs if you don't acknowledge any other country's sovereignty in the first place
That's about the size of it.
But we acknowledge israel
"meddling in the interest of democracy" then overthrow democratically elected leader LOL
While having a fucked up democracy yourself xD
The US was willing to remake the Korean War in Brazil if the military didn't succeed to overthrow an democratically elected leader on April 1, 1964.
This whole for the interest of democracy is nothing more than the traditional Deus Vult. The evolution of casus belli of war went from territory claims, to religious claims to now for "democratic" claims.
@Yosef Yonin
Guess who helped Hitler get into power thinking he'd be a good political ally.
No its not all black and white, the problem is that America has a habit of meddling for personal gain under a guise of benevolence only to make matters worse.
Ever notice how for all the big talk we don't dare pick fights with countries like China or Korea that can actually punch back? We only use them to fuel propaganda.
“You can have democracy… just not that way” -CIA
I grew up in Honduras, and remember my parents talking about friends "disappearing" when they were younger. Usually the disappeared were involved in student political movements
America be like: Don’t worry Taiwan we’ll protect your computer chips, I MEAN freedoms.
“We’re going to debunk the myth that America does not interfere in foreign affairs.”
Was this ever a myth that people actually believe.
Neoliberals and conservatives believe in it
Unfortunately, yes
@@gasoline9666(Sweeping statement, I know but) Conservates don't believe it. They're the ones that would propose the intervention.
Sadly, I know some people.
I thought the same thing when reading the title but then the video opened with the "most progressive US president ever" making that very claim.
America: We don’t start coups
CIA: 👁👄👁
Coup intelligence agency
The banana company:
@@Liam-vb3xo Corporate Intelligence Agency
Glow in the darks who must be run over.
The only time the US fails as coups are when they happen on their own soil
The only country ever to actually deploy nuclear bombs decides who else can have them?
“America doesn’t meddle with foreign affairs.”
Yeah, back when Washington was president
Only because it was too weak to meddle in anyone's politics
the amount of damage and suffering the US has caused to Latin American countries is unmeasurable. And it keeps happening. And American citizens are completely oblivious.
It's not that they are oblivious. They just don't care. Americans demonize Latin America's practices as they book their vacation to one of its countries.
Or become an "expat" and benefit from the feared socialism policies.
@@Dkoarn man I've lived here my whole life and haven't met a person my age (21) that could even attempt to explain what communism or socialism is, let alone capitalism
Here’s the worst part about it: It’s been baked in to US foreign policy since James Monroe, the 5th President (no, that’s not a typo). The “Monroe Doctrine” was the US trying to prevent European powers from meddling in Latin America, but at the very same time the US decided it could do whatever the heck it wanted in Latin America. The stench of hypocrisy stretches from sea to shining sea.
most of them don't really care either way, for them it's "The US #1" regardless of anything
@@n0ban790 tbh many, if not all, people would rather have their country be number 1 so there's no existential threat
"The US doesn't meddle in foreign affairs."
And the whole crowd burst into laughter.
Give me a break America is the sole reason as to why other parts of the world remain very chaotic so the billionaire class can pretend all they want but they can’t hide from facts and the facts state that America was never innocent but rather deep down a very evil country America can try her best to obscure her true colors on the world stage but for the people living in reality she can’t
While piggybacking off of the nation they laugh at like without us you all wouldn't be worthless or overrun by enemy's
@@eziokill9112 even worse, your country will be GOMMUNIST
@@eziokill9112 Sure thing dude.
Like the way our decade long bloodbath in SE Asia kept Laos and Vietnam from invading Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines?
Eeeek! THE DOMINOS!!!
What utterly discredited, hysterical horseshit.
We could've had peaceful terms of trade and diplomacy with ALL of those nations in 1954 - in the wake of the French collapse at Dien Bien Phu.
The title should also include the word "sarcasm" somewhere.
America doesn't meddle foreign affairs....the best jokes of the century.....🤣🤣🤣
Bro, this literally stands in every history book. YOUR claim is the only joke here.
As an American I’m well aware of this. I see what we did to Central America, the Middle East, Cuba so on and so forth. I makes me sick that our leaders are such hypocrites, and I know one day we will have to pay because of our government.
The Chile example is scary when you realize that’s not that long ago. Like that’s when my father was born he isn’t even 50 yet
I'm 99% sure you'll see more examples like those in YOUR lifetime. Just wait and see what happens if Brazil elects a socialist next year. The Brazilian military has already been coordinating with the US military, I would not be surprised at all if they stage a coup in case the election doesn't go their way. Be vigilant of any foreign country or leader that MSM vilifies on tv. Chances are high, they are exactly the movements we should be supporting.
My grandma was almost killed during the dictatorship because she was thought to be a socialist, she was tortured for days and then thanks to some weird thing of destiny she was thrown out to the streets all beaten and bleeding out, she just went home and went to rest and survived, this was during the time in wich most of her family had already been on the move to argentina since stuff was getting worse and worse, she already had many friends and people she knew meet a worse fate, by being gone, dissapeared, probably dumped into a river, or having their corpses burned, who knows, I'm just happy she's still here with us to this very day.
@@holgerlinke98 u seriously asking
@@holgerlinke98 Yea but u asking why it would be scary, just because it's common it don't mean it ain't absolutely horrifying to hear about how recent it was, like talking about the genocide of indigenous people, absolutely horrifying things with very recent cases, but that also happened everywhere, all over the continent, and we still gotta deal with the aftermath of it.
The Chicago boy's... Led by Milton Friedman, what a hero!... :(
seeing how great latin america could be without US interference depresses me
And without The UK
All Latin countries should join brics that's if we survive ww3 induced by the c.i.a..
You mean the very same latin Americans who risk life, limb, and murder by Mexican drug cartels to immigrate to America by the millions every year from totalitarian or socialist governments Funny, they do not look depressed when they cross our borders and we welcome them to add to our distinctiveness.
they also done that with indonesia, the result is more than 600k deaths and 30 years of dictatorship
Or North Korea, or Libya, or Iraq etc
Eventually, Karma hits back.
People that actually think America wasn't involved in any of this are truly lost causes, especially now.
Like me
"The US doesn't meddle in Foreign Affairs"
Yup, and the Earth is flat
I'm gonna jump off the edge of the earth
It's sad because some people actually believe in both.
If "US doesn't meddle in Foreign Affairs", then I don't shit.
@@spearsharp8682 According to flat earthers, you can't do that because of the "pacman effect"
@@mo-s- yeah when I tried to go to the edge pac man ate me
As a Latin American, I wish all these videos had Spanish subtitles so that anyone from Latin America can learn all this facts we need to know.
Then make the subtitles, upload them - and, of course, distribute the video link.
you can make ur own subtitles
@Merula Amethyst and french
@@juangarcia1207 and dutch
th-cam.com/video/-HkGhRNeMlg/w-d-xo.html say no more my friend here you have a channel specialized in USA interventions.
As a Brazilian, I am not shocked that this an actual myth Americans believe...
In other news, water is wet
"I'm going to write a list of every country that the US has meddled with." .... "On second thought writing a list of countries the US hasn't meddled with will be much shorter." **hands over a blank sheet of paper**
I would argue the case of the UK being on the latter list. But that would be a lie. Not to mention the British empire...
i'd say US hasn't meddled with US
@@dudono1744 You'd be wrong still, unfortunately
@@dudono1744 you forgetting 1/6?
@@hazbodoe330 forgot Suez crisis?
Anytime someone gives me the “worlds protector” bit, I tell them to look up the CIAs declassified documents and to get back to me. They never get back to me.
Most likely because they'd rather dismiss you and continue spouting their propaganda, than actually expend the effort to read the damn reports. As a wise old(er) man once told me, "Once a fool, always a fool; and a fool born of ignorance is irredeemable. Ignorance fortifies foolishness, and foolishness feeds ignorance."
They protect the world in how civil protection protects the civilians.
How could they?
@@RodrigoSantos-qf1uc Has this comment gone anywhere? No. Did you find your way to it? Yes. That’s how.
@Lex Bright Raven what are you talking about 🤣🤣 who tf gonna drone strike a guy for that stuff you said
Thank you for posting this. These foreign interventions never received much press coverage at the time, and certainly were barely mentioned in history classes below the college level. I always hear people asking "Why does the rest of the world hate the US so much, when we do so many good things?" I used to think the same way, and it wasn't until Reagan started laying mines in the waters of Nicaragua that I realized something wasn't adding up, and I started doing some research and learned the actual truth. It's unreal how much damage the US has done. And for what? In once case we interfered in elections, displaced people, and looked the other way while people were murdered so that we could have cheap bananas! And yet we still claim to be the champion of democracy.
Oh we deserve it. Completely.
“The US doesn’t meddle in foreign affairs” - said no one ever
"there is no meddling in foreign affairs" "there is no war in ba-sing-se"
No one seriously believes that. Most conservatives also hate the large military spending and foreign intervention. America's foreign policy isn't some secret
@@bluehotdog2610 they hate it until they're told that we're stopping "communism" from spreading around the world. Then its justified.
This again. I just finished watching ATLA.
No war in Ba sing se lol
Well actually, for about one hundred years now the (REDACTED) has been (REDACTED) all throughout the world. For more information, (REDACTED).
Zuko: "Growing up, we were taught that the Fire Nation was the greatest civilization in history. And somehow, the War was our way of sharing our greatness with the rest of the world. What an amazing lie that was. The people of the world are terrified by the Fire Nation. They don't see our greatness. They hate us! And we deserve it! We've created an era of fear in the world. And if we don't want the world to destroy itself, we need to replace it with an era of peace and kindness."
And then the fire nation right wingers burned him at the stake for being a woke commie nazi pacifist woke liberal democrat woke mob woke socialist woke.
Oh my, it makes the quote better considering Avatar: The Last Airbender was an American made show.
@@user-do1dc3qf3c yea but I doubt that was the intention of the creators
@@just_some_greek_dudewe‘ll never know
Im from Chile and it's so refreshing hearing an american speak about history correctly. KUDOS to this channel and to the person behind it.Bless you brother
The world has never been the same after 9/11
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"The US doesn't meddle in foreign affairs."
The entire rest of the world: "Excuse me WTF"
"Excuse meee , US" - link
Those mobs you see outside US missions in other countries, are actually keeping watch, not rioting.
Specially Mexico
I live in Nicaragua and the craziest thing about living here is seeing the extent of the US propoganda. People in Nicaragua have basically no clue that the USA has commited the acts you've talked about in this video. Most Nicaraguans think of the US as this benevolent entity who protects democracy in the world. Meanwhile, the US has invested millions of dollars into destabilizing Nicaraguans. Its really tragic seeing how much people here idolize the very country who has enabled their suffering...
@Michelle I tell my US friends this. Half the time they already know about it. Other half the time they don't believe it. Its sad
One thing the US did learn from Viet Nam is to CONTROL THE MEDIA
Same here in my country the Philippines, most desperate people think that the US and American people are vastly superior to us thanks to us being a former US colony. And to add insult to injury, there's also a phenomenon called colonial mentality which is common among so many Filipinos.
@P T oh if Gramsci was up to something i 100% support meddling
@@johney3734 Its genuinely hard to find good information about things like socialism, there is so much hate online that even the people who want to talk about it often end up getting defensive... Most people argue instead of talk... they want to prove how they feel is right instead of asking questions... its tough
“US doesn’t interfere on foreign affairs”
“Also Americans hate cheeseburgers and soda pop” 😭😭😭😭
"If the myth sounds good enough, you'll eventual start believing it."
7:07 Wow, Chile remembers 9/11 for a whole different reason than the US does
more people died in Chile's 9/11 but the US did Chile's 9/11 so we don't talk about it
Worst day in Chilean politics. But now it is past. Venceremos!
The USA did 9/11 first planes and all.
@@comicsans6487 it's crazy how much we Muslim still suffering from the ignorants of the 'advance civilization' till this day for that
“The US doesn’t meddle with international affairs” I’m Hmong and my grandfather died due to the CIA conscripting the Hmong to defend a trial that crossed into Laos and Vietnam. The US was fighting against a “communist and evil” north of Vietnam, and the north won, and still somehow deals better with crisis’ then the US, the “staple of freedom”
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poor child you are brainwashed, my father is too cause he watches too much mainstream media, still i don't follow his ideologies which he constantly chants 😅
As a Brazilian I thank you for this video. North American people have no ideia of how their own government manipulates them and the rest of the world, please make more of this content in english. It’s almost impossible to imagine a revolution nowadays while the us continues to command the world, their own people have to learn and revolt against their policies for socialism and true democracy to be implanted
As a Mexican I also say the same (considering the Robbery of 1848)
There's a recent joke that the US became so addicted to overthrowing governments that they even tried it on their own government 🤣
That started in January 2021
When Obama said “we don’t do it for territory or resources”
My response in that moment “Ye it’s both not one or the other”
Panama and the Panama canal, banana republics, guano islands, Hawaii, Phillipines.......
@@curtisthomas2670 smh this is just depressing
@@BePatientSeeLove yet we sit here and do nothing. we must rise.
@@glorihol6803u first
The Irony hits hard and the hypocrisy hits home - American Propaganda exists and the government enforces it through soft power
What is second thought political position?
and hard power
@@dq8262 Not so reformed regular socialists it seems.
@@dq8262 why must you know anyway 🙄
Soft power? That's sounds almost Biden level obliviousness.
as a Colombian citizen I can say that this is very true, and that even recent investigations have revealed that paramilitarism is one of the consequences of the American intervention in this land.
I came across your channel for the first time a few days ago and have been addicted! Great content!
Hearing the story of Allende makes me so sad and furious every time. He was such a good and honourable man, he didn't deserve that death. I hope the downfall of the CIA comes soon, and that whoever is still around gets held accountable.
He shouldn't shot himself, there was a change that the US would let him live and maybe he could inspire the people to fight on !
Well, thats debatable
@@quangle-zi2oz He knew that he would have been tortured and turned in to criminal so he chose the only way out he could and that was martyr the issue US expected that and pushed in A tyrant to make sure any one that follows him would be murdered.
They probably won't though. After all Rumsfeld justrecently died...in his sleep peacefully. Same going to happen with Kissenger. These terrible people tend to get to live out their lives.
Amerkkka is an evil empire. It genuinely is.
Dude, I’m starting to worry for your safety.
someone just download all his videos and if, god forbid, something happens to him, or videos disappear we'll have proof.
A side note... it seems to me that these old politicians don't fully realize they live in an era where their every word is set in stone. Otherwise, why would Biden even spout out that nonsense? Doesn't make any sense... then again, he is an old american politician.
@@forzee42
He's going to die soon.
As someone who is getting older, you do kind of realize you aren't going to be here much longer. Edit: re: Biden. Not second thought.
Lol this isn't something new, he's talking about stuff most people already know about. And no one does anything about it so there's no reason for him to "disappear" or whatever
@@grmpEqweer Lol glad you were talking about Biden and not Second thought
@@thisisnotme4245 agreed, they realise they are talking threatened by a TH-camr.
Is that why America has the most Foreign Bases all over the world…!!!🤣🤣🤣💯🤷♂️
Hella karma coming to America
The chile part actually made me tear up a bit, what a fucking tragedy.
Same
Indeed, we have people of all ages openly and proudly chanting their love for "Mi general Pinochet" in Chile, even political candidates
Wait until you hear about Guatamala, Bolivia, Peru...
There's a reason they don't teach this in US schools. If the people really knew what atrocities the US commits it would be really hard to indoctrinate them into blind patriotism.
Yeah never forget USA did 9/11 first planes and all.
I'm half Chilean but never been to Chile and don''t really have any connection with the country, but hearing that Allende speech is really heartbreaking. You can hear in his voice that he knew what was going to happen to his country.
nobody is going to mention that Allende was the worst president ever? check the inflation rate during his office, living conditions, it was a disaster
@@riiiomavuba Check my dad's family getting shot at a football stadium
im guatemalen, the cia overthrew my president which resulted in the deaths of 200,000 natives
@@canofsouls282 The best way to fight them is by educating people on the tactics they use. Stay strong!
@@b.d.a.8719 nixon could not have affected inflation or unemployment rates. Those variables are almost endogenous. I’m not saying the US is a role model; but this video put too much emphasis in what the us says or does. Local variables matter much more.
Well done to you for your well researched videos. Carry on the good work man!
The US doesn't meddle in foreign affairs. It dictates them.
"It's like burning a house down and saying you're doing it to prevent fire"
Perfectly sums up the USA's involvements in Afghanistan.
Also they aren't burning down abandoned rat-infested death traps - they're burning families right out of their homes
If there’s no house left, you can’t burn it, right?
@@thomasxl3975 Al Qaeda is stateless, don't spread the US government's bullshit.
Not to mention its been 20 goddamned years.
@@thomasxl3975
Guess who funded and trained them? Guess who also had advanced warnings that they would attack them yet did nothing for a convenient excuse to invade Afghanistan? The US, stop parroting the government’s BS or get out.
If I don't burn it down, someone or something else will.
"We don't Do it for territory or resources" LIES
Yup
The Banana Wars alone disprove that bs statement lol. Capitalists are more totalitarian than the enemies they accuse of such.....
Finally some hate on Obama
We do it for everything. The whole works
entire middle east would like to know your location
The fact that the government has a history of lying to the public about such topics is a bit scary. Some might say that it is for the best, but it is not so when people go out there to die for a cause that they are not fully informed of.
We literally teach this in US history classes, *IN THE US* , I have no idea how people believe those lies.
I think the Nicaragua event was even worse because they were neutral even when the US attacked. After being blocked by the US in the UN for asking for help, they asked the USSR which the US jumped on for legitimacy to attack
"Cuba, we're not buying your sugar to destroy your economy", "the USSR will buy it" "see, we knew you were communists"
@@jonlinin9682 This is why China is so defiant with us, they had to learn how to fend for themselves when the West viewed them as a weak, failed country. Well guess what
@@sandrapark8705 The west propped up the country and exported a significant portion of its industry to the country because it offered a source of slave - I mean cheap - labor, thereby jumpstarting its economy enough that it could have its own imperial ambitions?
Did I guess right, or is the last half century of "West/East" relations a fiction dreamed up by madmen?
@@aerfwefd7334 Yeah... after China modernized themselves after Britain became the world's biggest drug cartel, then when the Chinese got fed up over Britain selling drugs in their country the British stole some of their land for fun and called them poor, opium loving addicts. The only place they propped up before China helped themselves was Hong Kong which China didn't own anyways.
@@sandrapark8705 China helping themselves. That's a rich one. Thanks for the laugh.
Late 19th- and early 20th century China had essentially the same disjointed relationship with the western powers as Japan did with the US, albeit with more opium. China had very little success in modernizing in any way until the 1970's when the US suddenly became very interested in bringing China into the "global order" under Nixon. China's "remarkable progress" of the past half century is a direct result of the US government and industry leaders actively feeding China technology, administrative methods, and economic power for nigh on the entire time. China would be no more modern now than then were it not for US intervention.
You need to ignore ideology and face the fact that while the European intervention in China resulted in great tragedy for the locals - as imperial ventures often do - China would not be where it is today without US intervention. Carter legitimized the CCP internationally. Nixon started the process by which China industrialized. Nearly every administration and congress since has facilitated the strengthening of China.
Without that interference, I'd wager we'd be lamenting that the CCP had starved an even quarter of a billion people, rather than "just" 80-100 million. I'd further wager that China would be derisively called "Greater North Korea" for a wide variety of reasons.
None of this excuses the US interventions in its inner sphere of influence or consistently lying about the causes of conflicts it starts. However, that sort of behavior is as old as civilization, so I doubt it will ever change, regardless of how offensive it is to the sensibilities of those of us who realize it. Power, after all, is self-serving and it matters little what the source of the power is or the ideology behind it.
It’s ironic America did a 911. Wonder why I didn’t learn that in US history.
This video needs to be played in high schools.
It’s extremely sad to hear what happened in Chile
“Prove them wrong” that is impossible. The average US citizen is grateful for the never ending supply of Kook-Aid
Oh. Yeah.
Uh no, many people, especially as you go farther left (from my experience anyways) know that we are extremely petty to other nations that we don't agree with, if not outright belligerent.
@@alext3811 Cuba agrees.
You are making a great service of exposing the capitalist oligarchs' lies.
Learning about these topics Is very important, It makes people understand the rotten pillars of the system that at this point will collapse one way or the other. We must be ready to fight for what is the world we want to live in.
Remember, there Is no saviour, you are gonna save yourself, taking direct action!
the replys to this comment are going to be plesent.... Capitalist hate being told that there wrong man
@Ryan Mikols i guess you have your priorities, but i prefer to think about us all. Though, you are free to live as you prefer, it's your choice.
@@ethanpappas2502let's hope there's at least some people that actually want a conversation.
Yes, and like all the others that have done this service he might even be thrown in prison
@@MildTomfoolery123 I hope not, but It might happen if things get spicy, he already mentioned that he has been visited by the alfabet agencies a couple of times if you know what i mean..."tHe (fry)EsT natIoN in tHe WORLD!"
If we don’t know. Shame on us.
The biggest reason why most Indians are very sympathetic towards Russia is actually due to US interference..... In 1971, when India and Pakistan were on the verge of a war, US all out supported Pakistan. Pakistan, under Operation Searchlight, has literally killed millions of East Pakistanis, resulting in a staggering rise in the no. of Indian refugees. India hugely helped Bangladesh liberate, and gain independence, leading to the conflict with Pakistan. US knew very well about all the human rights violations and all the genocides committed by Pakistan, but they turned a blind eye, and sent Battleships, alongside China and UK against India. USSR was the sole ally of India who stood up and helped India maintain its sovereignty.
This absolutely enrages me. To think what a safe, thriving and healthy world we could be living in if the United States didn't have a death grip on the global economy. Free Market MY ASS.
I’m not going to defend the U.S. in it’s actions, but I will say that if the U.S. didn’t have majority control, someone else would. (Probably China or Russia) I don’t know about you but I would much rather have the U.S. over them.
@@coolminer6242 You would rather US have control simply because you live in this country (I assume). In the meantime, the US says they stand for democracy and the will of the people yet we trample democracy in other countries out of fear of socialism being more popular than capitalism. Let the people decide how to be governed. Hell, even in the united states we don't get proper democratic representation. What do you think would happen if Russia or China had "control" over things.
@@corogast you hate your country to death lol then you must hate China to the deepest level of hell you, uh, sinophobe? Why exactly would China be a million times worse? Oh cuz you don't actually hate the US, you say that just to justify hating China. I swear Americans hate the Chinese more than how the nazis hate Jews, and they think it's all OK when they "criticize" US (accomplishing nothing, of course, just pretending to have the freedom of speech).
@@kushastea3961 Most of time when (usually) conservatives say they hate China, they mean the government. The CCP (China communist party) is a country that is actually filled with oppressed citizens unlike here in the US who just wants to start problems because we’ve become soo spoiled that we don’t even know how good we actually have it here in the US. Yea we have our faults but we are much better off with US being the strongest country. If China replaced the US military bases around the world those countries would be on their knees from China’s dictator.
China doesn’t even consider Taiwan a country and claims Taiwan as China. Taiwanese citizens are scared that China will one day attack them because China hates seeing Taiwan claim itself as an independent country. But the only reason why China hasn’t done anything to Taiwan is because the US protects Taiwan’s independence.
I kindly ask you to do A LOT of research about Russia and China’s governments. The left never talks about them and always think they’re these “heaven countries” when they aren’t.
@@corogast Big difference-China doesn’t use their military to get their hands in.
At the one minute mark in Obama's speech and I am already overwhelmingly embarrassed. We, as a country, are delusional.
Try narcissistic, self-righteousness, arrogant, spoiled rotten children who think they are self-made Gods. The nerve of Obama to pretend as though every single empire of the past did not believe (or convince the majority) that they were right in their foreign interventions.
We learn far more American mythology here than we ever have American history. It's a damn shame, really, because I'm almost positive a lot of folks here could be a force for good in the world if they learned more of our actual history.
And who can forget Kissinger.
A particularly tragic period was the US treatment of neutral Cambodia during and after the Vietnam war. Put simply:
Initial US bombing of Viet-cong staging grounds along the Ho chi min trail quickly advanced into brutal and illegal high altitude carpet bombing of Cambodia killing predominantly civilians.
This aggression directly fuelled support for the Pol Pots Khmer Rouge who rose to power only to conduct the Cambodian genocide killing 20% of the population.
After N.Vietnam beat the US, they then fought the Khmer Rouge, removing them from power and sending Pol Pot and his supporters into the jungle. A new communist government was set up by the Vietnamese to get Cambodia back on track after years of bombing, civil war and genocide.
HOWEVER, instead of condemning and trialling the fleeing war criminals, the US and allies salty from losing the Vietnam war BACKED THE KHMER ROUGE OVER THE NEW GOVERNMENT, seeing them as the legitimate government. Western weapons and training was sent to the Khmer Rouge guerrillas fuelling further decades of civil war and any humanitarian aid for the Cambodian people was blocked by the West.
A disgusting period where the west backed a genocidal maniac to forward its own interests, forcing an already decimated country to endure decades more fighting, land-mining and pain all without receiving any form of aid after the atrocities it had suffered.
You are doing a real service by deconstructing the lies of capitalism. You have a new patron sir!
Thanks so much for your support!
@John Coletti 🙉🙈😂
@Second Thought is a product of capitalism.
@@kevpatguiriot Umm patron is literally people coming together to support what they love a complete opposite of Capitalism. And yes because of Capitalism failures and hes not the only one.
@@zenogstwitch8296 That's capitalism, you're still selling yourself on Patreon. Capitalism doesn't just mean "corporations," capitalism is about the ability to choose your work and sell your skills and interests on your means in order to get by. Capitalism isn't the problem, elected politicians with corporate interests who refuse to enforce our consumer protections and give handouts to billion dollar corporations saying "if they fail people will lose jobs" when, no, if they fail another company can have the equal opportunity to rise up and fill those jobs. Ending capitalism won't stop the issue of politicians with corporate interests. It will just make it so we have no chance of doing something about it. To me, I don't trust the government any more than corporations. They're all groups of powerful people trying to stay that way. And I feel far less safe having the government have end to end control on our economy and production. If you think capitalism is bad because a handful of people control the world I don't see how it's better to have one organization control the world instead of just a handful at least with the handful they have to sort of compete. People have the ability to make things to better our world even though there are companies who do things to worsen our world. I've seen some arguments that some people are willing to just make things for the greater good and don't need to get paid for it so we'll still improve if we got rid of capitalism. However I don't see the logic behind that point because you need funding to be able to build these projects in the beginning we're not all rich yeah corporations have too much money now and they have more money than they need to continue operations by a lot but when you're first starting out you don't have that and what the government is supposed to give you a grant for that how do you qualify for that Grant how do you prove that you can do that. With capitalism you can make a smaller idea to fund your bigger idea. Sorry it's a mess I use voice to text for the second half and I keep trying to correct the grammatical issues.
"we do it because it's right": OH. MY. GOD.
Are there Americans who still buy that in 2021?
I think a bit less than half the country. But in their defence, the government and the corporations intentionally make it very hard for them to believe otherwise.
It's what is taught in public school unfortunately
TBF there have been good reasons, and bad reasons
Hussein being an example of both, they put him in power, then took him out
I remember back in school and learning about the Vietnam War in social studies (this was still younger grade school age so it wasn't "history' class just yet) and I remember asking the teacher why we fought that war. Her answer was "to stop the spread of communism" and at the time it seemed to make sense to me. But man...looking back, I now realize what a radical question that was for someone that young to be asking and just how wrong her answer was.
More than half the US population believes that.
When i heard that joe biden intro i spit out my drink
That opening line from Biden was just gobsmacking. To hear him ask that question non-ironically was insane.
The US:shows in any third world country
Said country’s government: *my time has come*
third world country : we found oil
america : i'm gonna show them some democracy
@@thalez8040 Oil? Looks like they need surprise freedom and democracy.
The USA is a 3rd world country itself. No universal healthcare just for starters. When every single other first world, and even some third world nations have some form of this. That is just at bare minimum.
@@user-gz4ve8mw9l we are a first-world culture with a third-world.
@@user-gz4ve8mw9l then let's say semi-periphery and periphery countries instead of third world countries.
“USA doesn’t interfere with foreign affairs”
Middle East: *that’s some bs right there*
There’s also one time when the US tries to put the Dalai Lama back to power in Tibet to continue his medieval feudal theocracy reign as long as they are allies to the US because China.
The US government says they're the avengers when in truth the US is Thanos
@@OptimisticNihilist15 yeah sure, Tibet was practicing serfdom. It's basically slavery, where serfs don't have personal freedom and can be bought, sold, mutilated or killed if their masters wills it.
Pre-1951 Tibet was an elegantly simple society, basically you only have 2 classes of people:
The monks (always doing totally productive activities)
And
The serfs, the people whose sole purpose in life is to feed the monks and venerate them
So the popular opinion of how the primitive utopia with peaceful religious people living in harmony against the backdrop of heavenly scenery with snow covered mountains and sacred temples doesn't really exist. Well, I guess it exist in western movies or some such nonsense.
@@OptimisticNihilist15 if Tibet still exists, they did be the biggest cult of all time. Well atleast tourists can come and relive what it feels like to be ruled under Medieval feudal theocracy.
@@user-jh3cu1ix3y so you are ok with foreign affairs as long as you see its right? so the u.s. putting embargos on cuba is smart right because they tried to stop castro from killing political rivals. or is it only when its a communist state do you feel american intervention is wrong?
"We don't do this for resources" thats a cap all you have to do is look at the US global supply reliance on materials.
"The US Doesn't Meddle In Foreign Affairs"
Since when? This afternoon?
"The United States is the Most Moral Place" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Can Tell Yourself
It is never about democracy and freedom, but capitalism
@@altrag it is capitalist. It keeps happening because of capitalism.
@@altrag literally what do you think capitalism is? btw a capitalist is someone that owns capital, not someone that merely supports capitalism. you're not a capitalist and neither is 99% of the country.
@@altrag That's socialism XD Capitalism is when elites buy up others work so their could make profit. You mixed up the definitions.
@@altrag Yeah that's not what capitalism is, at least not when anyone nowadays uses the word. Capitalism is the exploitation of hired labor through private ownership of the means of production. AKA businesses belong solely to the bosses, who then hire workers, pay them less than what they're worth, and pocket the difference. Capitalism inevitably creates all-powerful corporations because of how it structurally consolidates power.
And while we're defining things, socialism is when the means of production are owned socially (either by the workers, their community, their country as a whole, etc). And communism is a stateless, classless, moneyless society with common ownership of the means of production + the movement to create such a society.
@@altrag Not to be pedantic but a state isn't the same thing as a government. A state is the mechanism for class rule, the way that a subset of people control an entire population through administration and force. The US government is currently a bourgeois state, as in, it primarily exists to serve the interests of the capitalist class instead of americans as a whole. Communists aren't trying to abolish governance, they're trying to create an equitable society where class differences don't exist (and therefore state rule doesn't exist either).
Also, neither Bernie nor AOC are very left at all. Their policy proposals would, at best, remedy some problems that capitalism causes without addressing the root cause - capitalism itself. I totally agree with you about their ineffectiveness and that right wing rule causes disasters.
I don't think China is socialist tho
I just listened to Allende's full speech, and that was heartbeating... what horrid behaviour from the "Land of the Free".