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[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (29 children)

If you only consider Europe most the world it would be true bit no the usa beem a malign actor for several decades

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (17 children)

I was gonna say, only now? I'm in the US and can see it's been a bad actor since at least the end of WW2.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Before WWII was also very bad

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Banana Republics come to mind. But during the time frame the US was doing that, Most of Europe was still doing their own colonialisms.

It was only when Hitler brought colonialism back to Europe that they started to wake up to how bad it was. Well, some of them. France and England had to start losing colonial wars, mostly due to losses suffered in due to WW2, before they slowly started freeing colonies.

Just shows that everyone is shit, and cheering for a team is kind of stupid.

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