Ive seem some posts and comments saying stuff where the US test weapons on european citizens, where the US extracted criminals from european countries (mainly Italy) because they where from the US army or the inteligence agencies, where they sacrificed european and japanese economies during US crisis, where they tested weapons on soldiers of their own allies without their consent, where he spyed on european leaders, where they extracted people that angried the US using illegal means and reasons (Assange is a good example of this) and much more shit.
How many of this cases are out there? How fucked is the relationship between the US and its allies that it constantly abuses them just because he can?
That’s precisely the paradigm the US defends when they talk about their dearest “international rules based order.” It’s a very clear case of rules for thee but not for me. There’s just no alternative at this point in time. The US is still (now by just the tiniest of margins) the single pole of a unipolar world. Your options, as a nation or as a political movement, are to be with the US or against it. So the supposed allies of the US tolerate this behavior, as they are well aware that however poorly the US treats them while they are allied, their treatment as “enemies” would be even worse.
Yes, although I might go as far to say that the event horizon has been crossed and we are now in a multipolar world, albeit still in its childhood.
Perfect recent example: throwing all of Europe under the bus regarding gas prices due to Ukraine shit stirring and Russian sanctions.
It’s a gross understatement but America is just a giant schoolyard bully. Cruel to even its friends, insecure, constantly projecting, stupid and unimaginative, narcissistic. It’s a shame the rest of its lackeys are waiting until the last opportunistic moment to jump ship, I would respect these partners in crime that have helped America ruin the world for a century if they switched sides now while it was still brave to do so.
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The circumstances at the end of the Spanish-American war, and how they triggered the Philippine-American war.
To cut a long story short, the Katipunan (Filipino Independence movement) found itself working alongside the US. Friends by way of a mutual enemy, as it were.
Spain made peace with the US, and sold the Philippines to the USA. At this point the Filipinos, having done most of the work of liberating themselves, were jointly sieging Spain’s last holdout in Manila with US forces. Without a word to the Filipinos from either party, the Spanish quietly opened the gates of Manila and let the yanks in. Just the yanks.
Further reading can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/362730.In_Our_Image Unfortunately I don’t have an online source, just paper book.
That book is what set me down the anti-imperialism path though. It’s good.
Ive readed about the american phillipine war, it was absolutelly terrible, if i remember well, 10% of the phillipine population died, the americans aways where absolute snakes and backstabbers, worse even then some european imperialists at the time BEFORE becoming the big main imperialist power.
