• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    🤦

    petro is not wrong; but he’s given the americans full blessings to regime change colombia and absolutely no one in the west will come to his aid; not even his fellow latin americans out of fear of pissing off the americans.

    PLEASE prove me wrong!!!

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      1 year ago

      Nobody except the US and its vassal states refer to it as America. It’s the United States. The Americas are a huge continent of which the US and Canada are but a settler blight in.

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        1 year ago

        The US and (some of) its vassal states also happen to be more or less the only majority English speaking countries in the world, and so get to set the meaning of “America” (singular) when used in English.

        With that said, the translation reads “the Americas” (plural) which unambiguously refers to the two continents.

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    I don’t know but I feel he’s playing with fire here