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EdIt: fixed a typo in the title

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Americans in the first panel pretending like it wasn’t the CIA installing their preferred dictator.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fun fact, the US has been involved to some degree in at least 80 foreign coups or election manipulations just from 1946-2000. With all the ones before and after that time frame, its probably more like 150+

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Either that or they're really pumped about going in there with guns blazing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Shameless plug for the Blowback podcast. I'm not affiliated at all. Its just an amazing podcast that covers a different war/coup each season.

https://blowback.show/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Reminder that the showrunners are campist cretins.