Granderson: The U.S. sees itself as a white knight (emphasis on 'white') (via latimesopinion)
summed up the biggest issue with the country’s approach to foreign policy shortly after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. He said the United States doesn’t have friends; it has interests.
When President Monroe articulated that vision in an address to Congress in 1823, he declared an end to European interference in Latin America. This was not done out of respect for the Indigenous people who fought to win back their independence. It was so the U.S. could take the Old World’s place controlling and colonizing the hemisphere.th
Let’s not leave out President Reagan’s support of supposedly anti-Communist Contra forces in Nicaragua, a foreign policy decision that has provided weapons to generations of geopolitical foes.
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