The industrialized western powers have historically exerted tremendous pressure on the Third World.
Whether we're talking about Duque's Columbia or Marcos's Phillipines or Modi's India or Ing-wen's Taiwan, the Western Imperial Era is defined by the degree to which western lackeys dominate governments of the Global South.
Cuba is notable precisely because it has resisted installation of a puppet government for so long. And the collapse in the number of lackey governments along the Pacific Rim and throughout Central/South America seems to signal a general decline in the reach and extent of control out of DC and London.
The industrialized western powers have historically exerted tremendous pressure on the Third World.
Whether we're talking about Duque's Columbia or Marcos's Phillipines or Modi's India or Ing-wen's Taiwan, the Western Imperial Era is defined by the degree to which western lackeys dominate governments of the Global South.
Cuba is notable precisely because it has resisted installation of a puppet government for so long. And the collapse in the number of lackey governments along the Pacific Rim and throughout Central/South America seems to signal a general decline in the reach and extent of control out of DC and London.