America Deserved 9/11 and Other Real-Ass Takes: A Visitor's Guide
America Deserved 9/11 and Other Real-Ass Takes: A Visitor's Guide
Even though we had a little bit of warning about federation, I think we're off to a rocky start. Maybe we should have compiled a list of things we think that may make other people very upset. That way they can quickly get to know what we're about and go hide in a social media bubble if it scares them.
I figure I'd start with a good one. America deserved 9/11. I'm burying the lede a bit with that one. I don't think random acts of violence really accomplish much and I don't think randos, albeit imperial core randos, should die. But this wasn't a random act of violence, was it?
There's a little something called Foucault's Boomerang. Basically it's the tools, means, and experiments carried out by imperial countries tend to make their way back home one way or another. Military gear gets tried out on the battlefield then next thing you know cops at home have the same equipment. It also works for cause and effect. America did 9/11 to itself.
After WWII America courted the monarchy of Saudi Arabia, who had some really "interesting" religious ideas at the time, to ensure a source of oil. Oil was very important to American manufacturing and the war effort. Our domestic reserves helped us get through WWII. We needed more. So the US decided to look the other way on Saudi foreign policy while they ensured us first dibs on the oil. The UK also made deals on building their infrastructure and finance needs, to which the US eventually pushed them of the back rooms where such deals were made. But that's another story.
The US also backed anti-Soviet/anti-Communist groups in the Middle-East as they had in other parts of the world. This meant giving aide and weapons and training to those groups. In exchange they would beat up all the communists and pro-soviet people in their country and keep the borders open for US trade.
Not to "yadda yadda yadda" through a lot of interesting history but the US made a lot of enemies and ruined former alliances in these places because we valued the exploitation of their resources more than the actual relationships formed. Once the Soviets were gone, we could just do what we wanted to them and there was nobody left to oppose us.
So our former (and some current) friends stabbed us in the back. The imperialism boomeranged back home and we got a terrorist attack on US soil.
The people who died didn't particularly deserve it but people die when an imperial power does imperialism. That's part of why it's bad. Imperialism will never benefit the common person, it will only hurt us in the end. You best believe all this funding, weapons, and shit going into Ukraine will come back on us too.
What are some other real-ass takes for our visitors who need disillusioning?
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South Korea is, by all meaningful measures, an occupied puppet state of the USA. The largest foreign military base in the world is the US base centered in SK's capital city. If SK goes to war, it is the US who has final control over its military, not SK.
The US intervention in the Korean civil war was a complete and total undermining of democratic processes within Korea, whose people overwhelmingly supported a communist government at the time the US drew an arbitrary line on a map and split the country in half. Communists in South Korea during the period leading up to the war, and during the war itself, were arrested, beaten, and killed by US-appointed puppets in an active effort to suppress the Korean people's ability to determine their own future. While intervening, the US inflicted so much damage through bombings in northern Korea that hardly any buildings were left standing.
Keep that in mind next time you hear some (totally legit and not made-up or exaggerated in any way) story about how oppressive and evil the DPRK is - as if anything they could do to their own citizens could be such a horrifically violent and merciless denial of self-determination as what the USA did to the people of Korea.
I had no idea about this. Thank you for enlightening me
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Also, this is something to keep in mind when Americans try to claim that the Soviets started the Korean War.
I'll add to this that the US helped cement the power and privilege of the chaebol. These conglomerates are owned by families who collaborated with imperial Japan during the occupation.