• ShinkanTrain
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    3 days ago

    As if the US ever needed someone’s blessing to perform a coup.

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      3 days ago

      difference is that now they don’t have to invent a reason like iraqi wmd’s

      the point is moot however, the colombians have already caved like the americans wanted them to.

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        Sorry, did we invent reasons for the rest of our South American coups? We did like 20 of em in the last century. Just pretended the CIA wasn’t involved.

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          Yes: it was either the “war on drugs” or the Monroe doctrine