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.
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.