The answer is that a single foreign base being too close almost ended the world.
A single country being socialist anywhere in the Americas is considered an existential threat by the USA. If there were military bases nearby, the US would plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon, no doubt.
Literally, every single time an socialist country was born in the world, the US kick dropped them imediatly.
Then Americans smugly say ‘see socialism can’t work!’
If the US didn’t do this, what excuse would you even had when it failed?
Oh, that’s right… no need for an excuse, as the secret police show up and send anyone asking to a reeducation camp. Or even those people who have funny looks on their faces like they want to ask the question but know better than to say it out loud.
Rest in power, Maurice Bishop.
Even if we keep the somewhat misleading naming convention, that was Turkish Missile Crisis. It started when USA put missiles in Turkey.
Also note that every single of those countries are only hostile to US because every one of them has been victim of decades long economical, military, political and propaganda aggression. In case of Russia and China it’s over a century by now.
Even if we keep the somewhat misleading naming convention, that was Turkish Missile Crisis. It started when USA put missiles in Turkey.
Exactly. The US is the epitome of can dish it but can’t take it.
The US would shit itself and explode if suddently hundreds of foreign military bases materalized themselves into existance around them.
Would be so epic though
Blowback season 2 does a great job going over the Cuban missile crisis. It was pretty much entirely the US’ fault.
Yeah, I’d like to watch that kind of movie
