Its not really the wests' style to respond to a student protest in their periphery demanding greater rights for workers, free elections and more equitible disribution of wealth by rolling in a bunch of tanks from the core to strongarm them back into subjugation. They are much more likely to finance "rebels" from within the periphery to carry out a seemingly homegrown campaign of terror to bring a halt to any demands that would interfere with their hegemony.
Vietnam and Korea and Iraq were proxy wars, and Afghanistan was invaded as Saudi Arabia's whipping boy. None of them due to a popular uprising pushing demands disfavorble to the core. Compare that to all the times a left-leaning (often democratically elected) leader starts doing redistribution reforms on assets USA is too close to, and suddenly they're deposed in an in internal coup, or even the Iran 1979 uprising
Nicaragua? The whole Contra thing? They were literally using American tanks and being trained by American soldiers. I guess I don't really draw a line between mercenaries trained and supplied by a bourgeois state and the official army of that state. They're functionally identical except the mercs have less oversight.
Its not really the wests' style to respond to a student protest in their periphery demanding greater rights for workers, free elections and more equitible disribution of wealth by rolling in a bunch of tanks from the core to strongarm them back into subjugation. They are much more likely to finance "rebels" from within the periphery to carry out a seemingly homegrown campaign of terror to bring a halt to any demands that would interfere with their hegemony.
Except Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or Vietnam. Or Korea. Or...
Vietnam and Korea and Iraq were proxy wars, and Afghanistan was invaded as Saudi Arabia's whipping boy. None of them due to a popular uprising pushing demands disfavorble to the core. Compare that to all the times a left-leaning (often democratically elected) leader starts doing redistribution reforms on assets USA is too close to, and suddenly they're deposed in an in internal coup, or even the Iran 1979 uprising
Nicaragua? The whole Contra thing? They were literally using American tanks and being trained by American soldiers. I guess I don't really draw a line between mercenaries trained and supplied by a bourgeois state and the official army of that state. They're functionally identical except the mercs have less oversight.