US emerging as a hostile, expansionist fascist power, as rule-of-law whithers

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

Big picture summary of US as we near the end of March 2025: the US is emerging as a hostile, expansionist fascist power abroad as the rule of law whithers at home.

https://bsky.app/profile/magafree.bsky.social/post/3llce4dwkws26

[Ocelot II]

1. We are becoming what the USSR used to be.

[C_U_L8R]

2. A festering infection.

[elocs]

3. The U.S. is headed towards being a 2nd world country with nukes,

not trusted by the free nations of the world. It's taken just a couple of months for Trump to destroy our world reputation. Why should other nations ever trust us again when they know we have an electorate that is easily fooled and would vote for another Trump again?

[snot]

4. Imho,

we've been one for a long time, although it's gotten worse and we used to mask it better.

I do think part of Trump's appeal is that he states in plain, blunt terms what many involved in the goverment have acted on more discreetly... I'm thinking, e.g., of the decades of US interference in other countries – Argentina, Afghanistan, Brazil, Chile, Congo, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nicaragua, Palestine, Syria, and yes, Ukraine, to mention just a few – in many cases (including Ukraine) supporting coups against democratically-elected governments in an effort, too often successful, to replace them with a more compliant dictator.

This is, of course, not what I want our country to be, whether overtly (under Trump) or covertly.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

5. Steve Kangas wrote about this decades ago

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKkangas.htm

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html

(2) Steve Kangas, Timeline of CIA Atrocities (1996)
The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations. Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this an "American Holocaust." The CIA justifies these actions as part of its war against communism. But most coups do not involve a communist threat. Unlucky nations are targeted for a wide variety of reasons: not only threats to American business interests abroad, but also liberal or even moderate social reforms, political instability, the unwillingness of a leader to carry out Washington's dictates, and declarations of neutrality in the Cold War. Indeed, nothing has infuriated CIA Directors quite like a nation's desire to stay out of the Cold War.

The ironic thing about all this intervention is that it frequently fails to achieve American objectives. Often the newly installed dictator grows comfortable with the security apparatus the CIA has built for him. He becomes an expert at running a police state. And because the dictator knows he cannot be overthrown, he becomes independent and defiant of Washington's will. The CIA then finds it cannot overthrow him, because the police and military are under the dictator's control, afraid to cooperate with American spies for fear of torture and execution.

The only two options for the U.S. at this point are impotence or war. Examples of this "boomerang effect" include the Shah of Iran, General Noriega and Saddam Hussein. The boomerang effect also explains why the CIA has proven highly successful at overthrowing democracies, but a wretched failure at overthrowing dictatorships.

The following timeline should confirm that the CIA as we know it should be abolished and replaced by a true information-gathering and analysis organization. The CIA cannot be reformed - it is institutionally and culturally corrupt.

1941: COI created

LOTS LOTS LOTS MORE………

[snot]

7. Indeed...

I vaguely recall a movie about a small country declaring war on the US on the theory that after the small country capitulated, the US would generously fund its recovery.

And then there are movies about how countries we've "helped" have ended up worse off than they were before – and there's plenty of fodder for more such movies.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

6. book. All The Shah's Men

Good book about the CIA overthrowing the first democratically elected
leader in Iran…

The CIA installed the Shah..

Our “Thug”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Shah's_Men

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That WIKI info is really biased, slanted.
Ignores a lot of the dirty CIA.

That Wiki summary Ignores many of the real sequence of events.

First THEY attempted to get President Truman to act.
But were unsuccessful.

So when Eisenhower became president,
THEY came up with a Bullshit reasons of COMMUNISM
and SOVIET UNION crap to get Eisenhower to agree to coup.

Bottom line.
Iran had OIL, AND thus British and US interest wanted it.
So CIA installed the Shah