It's almost like any ideology that doesn't involve kissing the ass of the United States, results in US forces entering. The only time the US stopped intervening in the Philippines, was when Paul Manafort and Ferdinand Marcos were looting the place. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952 …
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>It's almost like any ideology that doesn't involve kissing the ass of the United States, results in US forces entering. You think this is a unique treatment that Asians get?
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No, indigenous peoples in Latin America also get the same treatment. You all just don't ridiculously then try to pretend to be their friends while doing it.
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C'mon Rei - American crusades in South America have exactly tried to pretend to be for the benefit of "the people" The US is a messianic exporter of its religion - "democracy" and it'll undermine functional alternatives everywhere but it saves its strongest reaction for whites
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The US does not actually export democracy in the instances being described. Instead, it enters the scene, identifies specific strategic interests, and immediately sets about utilising local forces which are aligned to the most retrogressive forces, and makes a deal with them.
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It's not that the US shows up and suddenly airdrops its own system in. It shows up and prevents people from overturning whatever the existing system happens to already be. In Central America and Asia, that's usually semifeudalism.
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Hence why in 1901, when the Philippines tried to overthrow Spanish semifeudalism and create liberal democracy modelled on the US constitution, the US showed up and actually killed them, and reinstalled semifeudalism.
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That moment in history has a sharp reverberation, since that was when a lot of Asian people realised, for the first time, with regret, that American democracy is 'only for Americans'. From there on, history was altered, and in fact the 'Pan-Asian' concept was born in that war.
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I also have a thread about those events in the Philippines:https://twitter.com/ReiMurasame/status/789339759713869825 …
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It's also why although 2016 was supposedly '60 years of Japan-Philippine Friendship', it was really actually 115 years of Japan-Philippines Friendship, because Japanese advisors were present on the Philippines side during the Philippines-American War. http://www.ph.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/00_000178.html …
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Japanese military advisers on the side of those fighting a rival imperial power isn't surprising
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