• vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    When were those days, exactly? I’ve studies a hell of a lot of history, and I can really only point to two moments:

    1. The American Civil War, but we were both the good guys and the bad guys there, so doesn’t really count.

    2. WW2. We fought against fascism. We were squarely on the side of the good guys.

    I’ve never been alive when America was the good guys, and neither has the vast majority of anyone else.

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      1 day ago

      As a history nerd that has gone down many rabbit holes a lot of the worlds problems of the last 200 years and beyond are because of countries like USA, England. Russia, Spain etc.For example Central America and even some of South America that was colonized by Spain which stole a vast amount of natural resources such as gold and silver. Later down the line some of these countries especially in central America though they were never colonized by USA USA had a lot of influence on them and even was the one controlling their civil wars like they were playing video games. As soon as communism was not a threat America pulled out of those countries and left them in a shitty place. Another example is the MS 13 terrorist gang organization which originally was founded in Los Angeles, These gang members were than arrested in United States and then deported back to Central America without giving those governments a heads up of who exactly they where sending back and by not doing that this gang turned into one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world