I expect to see a lot of "spontaneous and organic" colour revolutions in various potential B&R nations in the coming decades. At some point China will have to accept that the US can and will try to coup every other government in the world before they'd ever let them develop.
(Not saying that Italy was the US's fault, I don't know enough about it to make that claim)
One of the things attractive about China's aid is that much of the time it involves little changes in the receiving government's policies. China is aiding many reactionary and corrupt countries develop. It's going to be pretty difficult to efficiently propagandize leaders and citizens that China is trying to control them when they're not making any strict demands like the US. Of course, the west can always cause instability instead of installing pro-US governments. They can back an idiot who can only see short term and embezzle all the funds to himself and end up getting killed and cause civil wars, or continue funding jihadists and ethnic conflicts; a war torn country that can't take any side is better than one that side with China, and even then the US and Eruope will be the only ones who are enthusiastic about military intervention, so they can take control while China stays far from it.
I expect to see a lot of "spontaneous and organic" colour revolutions in various potential B&R nations in the coming decades. At some point China will have to accept that the US can and will try to coup every other government in the world before they'd ever let them develop.
(Not saying that Italy was the US's fault, I don't know enough about it to make that claim)
If not directly, the US was certainly responsible via Gladio
One of the things attractive about China's aid is that much of the time it involves little changes in the receiving government's policies. China is aiding many reactionary and corrupt countries develop. It's going to be pretty difficult to efficiently propagandize leaders and citizens that China is trying to control them when they're not making any strict demands like the US. Of course, the west can always cause instability instead of installing pro-US governments. They can back an idiot who can only see short term and embezzle all the funds to himself and end up getting killed and cause civil wars, or continue funding jihadists and ethnic conflicts; a war torn country that can't take any side is better than one that side with China, and even then the US and Eruope will be the only ones who are enthusiastic about military intervention, so they can take control while China stays far from it.
Yeah, that's exactly my concern. That the US would rather watch the entire world collapse rather than allow these countries to develop in any way.
Italy is 100% our fault :Gladio-shining: