Quag
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Tell you what, criticise this, and you and I can call a truce! And please, whatever you do, do not dare to attempt any justification of this!
1954
Guatemala — CIA overthrows the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.
One of the paradoxes of legislative oversight of intelligence in the early Cold War period was that the United States Congress could give strong, if de facto, support of aggressive covert action while, with the exception of a few leaders, not really knowing which such policies were being carried out. Guatemala is a perfect example. Following its 1944 revolution, which brought democratically elected leftist governments to power, this Central American government faced an increasingly hostile neighbor to the north, the United States. Guatemala's treatment of US-based corporations, especially the United Fruit Company, in expropriating land and other assets, did nothing to improve relations.
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-...lligence/kent-csi/vol44no5/html/v44i5a03p.htm
There IS NO END to this type of US aggression all the while mouthing the merits of democracy, quite filthy. And your worried about Putin, lol.
While I fully agree this is wrong it has no bearing on the situation today in Ukraine.
Putin is the aggressor he orchestrated the whole thing. How does bad behavior of the US govt in the past in any way excuse Putin's wrongs today?