Is that why haitis not doing well

I mean location, location, location, the duvalier family

My mom took a missions trip to Haiti...

She said it was wack af

She said that some guy walked outside his house

And ALLL the crows landed on his roof

She also said there were possessed people there

Lmao maybe they should’ve let the whiteys stay

interesting passage from the "nuremberg diaries"

The one saying the quote is Hermann Goering

Yeah, not taking advice from Goering.
The continental Europeans never quite got over the idea of having malleable classes of people. To this day, it appeals to them to have an entrenched rich and wealthy aristocratic class, their blue collar servants, and then the perpetually impoverished serfs under them.

What made the United States special was the idea that one of the poor impoverished serfs could bust his balls night and day, lift himself from poverty, and become the wealthy elite. Meanwhile, if you were born into money and you squandered it on things that helped nobody, you would become an impoverished serf.

They can take their goddamn *titles* and shove them where it hurts. Goering can suck a pair. Back before the World Wars, we also didn't try to set up democracies, which shows you what an incompetent buffoon he was. We went to war to open the markets. A government would tell us that we could not sell our product in their countries. We would tell those governments that we did not give a single solitary fack about what they thought, and murder them until they declared their markets open for business.

For details on this strategy, see the following:
The Banana wars
The Panama Canal Zone
The Spanish-American War
The Philippine-American War
The Annexation of Hawaii

Thankfully France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and most of Europe in general was quite open to the idea of trade, so no wars were necessary with them.

Banana wars?

We policed many South American countries during the colonial period.

Those police actions were called the Banana wars.

Ah I see

I though that was the whole business with the Banana Republics

Right. They were republics in name only. We didn't care about setting up "Democracy" per se. We cared about trade. Very hard to trade with a country that is in a perpetual bloodbath.

So wait is this the actions with the Banana republics, or does this take place before the Spanish American war? Because the Banana. republics nonsense were a thing in the 50s

I am not sure, Wikipedia (dodgy source, so don't quote me on it) says from 1893-1934.

I looked it up

Now I get what you mean

It's one of those things where it's very romantic to believe that we cared about human rights on the Global Scale, but governments are never that altruistic.

The purpose of a government is to preserve the rights of its citizens. Other countries citizens? Well, that's on them. They want their rights? They can make a government of their own to safeguard them.

Or annex their territory to a government that will ~~provide~~ preserve said rights.

It's also critical to understand that this strategy is exactly what China is currently pursuing. Their entire Belt and Road initiative is to open up new markets and to protect their currently existing ones. As far as they're concerned, they *will* sell you their plastic rubbish.

Whether you like it or not.

Thought this belongs here

Belonged

No downloadable files.

A burning fuel dump after a mortar attack at Khe Sanh
On this day 1968 the Battle of Khe Sanh begins.

is this in Vietnam?

Yes

Ahh, Vietnam. After centuries of fighting off constant Chinese invasions, you'd think we'd have known better than to get involved.

Don't get me wrong, 7-1 K/D spread is always a win in my book. But it would have been much easier to let them kick out the French, wait it out, and join them when the Chinese began their invasion.

Or even better, we could have continued the Korean War once the Chinese had fully engaged with 'Nam.

We probably should have just done the korean option

because with the Vietnamese, they at least stuck to the idea of the politics not mattering as long as it ended with the independence of Vietnam

Korea on the other hand, they're an entirely different story

Well, the politics wouldn't matter to *us*. I think the Hmong might have a different opinion, however.

Also, what do people think of the idea of Japan getting it's balls back? Should we petition King Biden to let the Japanese have Aircraft Carriers?