Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Castro? Jesus Christ, CASTRO, Bernie? [View all]JonLP24
(30,118 posts)You cannot tell me Saudi Arabia is a Democracy when every President since FDR allied with Saudi Arabia and one of the reasons why ironically is because Saudi Arabia is anti-communist but they are the most authoritarian government in the world with the worst women rights record in the world.
You act like the US has clean hands.
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States government struggled with the Soviet Union for global leadership, influence and security within the context of the Cold War. The United States government under the Eisenhower administration feared that national security would be compromised by governments propped by the Soviet Union's own involvement in regime change and promoted the domino theory, with later presidents following Eisenhower's precedent.[5] Subsequently, the United States expanded the geographic scope of its actions beyond traditional area of operations, Central America and the Caribbean. Significant operations included the United States and United Kingdom-orchestrated 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion targeting Cuba, and support for the overthrow of Sukarno by General Suharto in Indonesia. In addition, the U.S. has interfered in the national elections of countries, including in Japan in the 1950s and 1960s, the Philippines in 1953, and in Lebanon in the 1957 elections using secret cash infusions.[6] According to one study, the U.S. performed at least 81 overt and covert known interventions in foreign elections during the period 19462000.[7] Another study found that the U.S. engaged in 64 covert and six overt attempts at regime change during the Cold War.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided