• leisesprecher@feddit.org
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      Of course, but most governments are allowed to mostly be sovereign.

      Sweden or Australia play ball on their own, no need for a coup here.

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        Lol, what? Australia is a US lackee more than anywhere else. And the CIA was definitely involved in the Whitlam sacking.

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          For real, the US committed a coup in Australia with Whitlam. They don’t constrain the CIA to just poor countries.

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        most governments are allowed to mostly be sovereign

        Generally speaking, sovereign governments achieve that sovereignty through military might or the inability of would-be rulers to rule them, not by simply being “allowed” to govern themselves by neighbors.

        The USA did not invent power.

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        Idk, but I feel like Olof Palme (PM of Sweden) def got murdered by the USA for his criticism on the Vietnam War. Or by South Africa for his criticism on apartheid.