35 countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists

[WatermelonRat]

13. A severely deceptive article.

The intent is obviously to push the "everything happening in Ukraine was engineered by the US" narrative popular among those trying to minimize Russia's imminent annexation of a neighboring state's territory. Predictably, a large portion of the list comprises distortion of the nature of various factions and events, a loose definition of "fascist" and inflation or outright fabrication of American involvement. We don't need to argue about that though, because the list doesn't prove the author's point anyways.

First, among the listed examples, only a handful were unambiguously engineered coups of the sort being alleged now. The rest mostly consisted of backing one side or another in an existing conflict, often openly. There is certainly good reason to question the morality and strategic wisdom of many of those interventions, but since the point here is to back up the claim that the US covertly engineered the uprising in Ukraine, they are irrelevant.

Of the cases where the US was instrumental in the planning and execution of coups and uprisings, almost all were in the 50's and 60's, with the 1980 Turkish coup being the most recent.

Finally, none of this constitutes evidence of the allegations being made, which is more damning than any debunking of individual entries to the list.