Show threadbsmall2Mar 19, 2025
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> ... the Sandinista model deeply frightened the United States: they thought it could spread up towards Mexico.
> ... the United States doesn’t care about what happens in the Northern Triangle of Central America.
> The origin of the great migration was the war funded by the United States...
#uspol #ThreatOfAGoodExample #Sandinistas #Nicaragua #CetnralAmerica
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Show threadbs2Jul 10, 2024
> ... the main objectives of the US is to undermine Venezuela’s anti-neoliberal and socialist policies.. two sub-objectives.. First, it wants to prevent.. Venezuela from becoming an anti-capitalist alternative.. to prevent a possible “good example” that could inspire people in other countries to follow a similar path. Second, it also wants to make sure that #VenezuelanResources, mainly its oil reserves, are accessible to transnational capital.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-sanctions-a-conversation-with-gregory-wilpert/
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Why Sanctions? A Conversation With Gregory Wilpert

Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, a book recently published by Brill, offers a comprehensive account of

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BoudFeb 13, 2022

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> "Russia has a special path", basically, that, yes, autocracy & repression are awful, but that anything else doesn't work at all.

This sounds credible to me (with negligible knowledge of Russian politics).

The #ThreatOfAGoodExample is also feared by governing elites in many countries (not just Western [1]; e.g. the biggest threat to PRChina was Hong Kong/is Taiwan).

[1] Chomsky, 1992, https://chomsky.info/unclesam01
(archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220127054232/https://chomsky.info/unclesam01)

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The Threat of a Good Example, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from What Uncle Sam Really Wants)

The Noam Chomsky Website.