The United States used to impose its will on the rest of the world.If a nation had a leader, even an elected one, and we decided that the leader's policies inconvenienced us, we would send in the CIA to remove the leader.
Goodbye Mossadegh (Iran) 1953, Arbenz (Guatemala) 1954 and Allende (Chile) 1973.
If fighting a war would help make some of our citizens really wealthy, then Sam made the war happen, even if the war made no real sense.
Viet Nam, Iraq (twice) and Afghanistan
The United States has also kept tabs on the nuclear club, ultimately deciding who is allowed to join and who is not.
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