American-Backed Coups, Mapped
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2023
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The US perfected the art of the coup to push out leaders it didn’t like and install leaders it did. In this story I go through some of the major US-led coups to explore how the US rose to power and stayed there.
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This is why I laugh when I hear about American politicians complaining about other countries trying to “interfere” in their elections.
100%
Well… that’s America for ya
@@Feashis Absolutely
@@Feashis Bullies and the rest of the world watched and enabled this arrogance to grow beyond measure
Young leaders particularly in Africa are now standing up against this, and I fear that they will be assassinated or toppled to suit America's foreign policy
Who gave America the Big Brother Status?
Americans still think every illegal is Mexican for some reason
Part of being American is thinking your country is Superman but slowly realizing that it’s actually Homelander
There’s a way you Americans can stop the government and is if you do what the first generation of Americans did to the British in 1775
jingoism!
True
Well its all good and fine when the citizen thinks he is being benefited, it's not good tho when you realize you have nothing, and USA billionaires have it all
Sorry, what’s Homelander ?
Ths video did a great disservice to Gaddafi. Not one mention of the fact that the coup revolved around the use of their own currency and not the dollar. Ask HRC.
Single phone call by Lady Rothschild to Hilary Clinton complaining Tut Tut about Gadaffi's Pan African bank to compete with the Rothschilds financing everybody. Hilary couldn't jump high enough to take down Gaddaffi ! And now millions of sub Saharan Africans have migrated thru unbordered Libya to Europe to go onto social benefits.
Ask kissinger.
johnny boy is an apparatchik propagandist of usa leftists
The Gold Dinar that he was going to put into play with the coalition from Africa. Debt based system can have that, so now he becomes a “terrorist.”
@@0onpoint more lies
You should include Indonesia. There are declassified CIA documents showing the CIA involvements in Indonesia's 1965 coup. In 1966-67 US gained most control over Indonesian oil & minerals explorations, most notably the once biggest gold mine on earth: the Grasberg gold mine in Papua, Indonesia. Just only recently Indonesia gets 51% share of this mine, previously Indonesia only got less than 4% 👍🏻🇮🇩🏆
He excluded a lot. He is a textbook fig leaf.
100% correct: President Suharto's 30 year reign and the Coup against Indonesia's first democraticaly elected President Sukarno was heavily backed by CIA money and weapons.
@@eimsbush05 Nope. I live in a small Indonesian city called Jogjakarta. Here the infamous Allen Lawrence Pope detained after his B25 bomber (if im not mistaken the bomber type) was shot down by an Indonesian Air Force P51 Mustang during her bombing raid in Ambon island back in the 60s. Even we have a monumental diorama on that excact event, and btw back then in the 90's when i was a kid my dad bring home a pair of dog pup and he named 'em Allen & Pope.
@@eimsbush05what does this mean?
It baffles me that many Americans still believe their government is doing only good by getting involved in foreign conflicts.
You know the media isn’t going to outright tell the truth to American citizens.
Because in school and TV growing up it is imbedded to us.
the current Israel palestine situation shows how indoctrinated they are.
They’re literally in the comments of this video hating in the replies, like dude have you watched the whole thing, at this point you’re choosing to be ignorant
They are not but they are powerless to stop it
You didn't mention that education, electricity, medical insurance, and gas were free during Qaddafi's rulership. The reason why they wanted him out was that he tried to establish an African Union which has a currency connected with gold reserved instead of the petrodollar.
Thank you
Gaddafi was taking great xare of his people. Free electricity free housing free education free medical support in marriages support to women biggest canal system in desert ... list goes on
His Story Producer, Rafaela Siewert (with the second billing under his own name), is literally the Associate Podcast Producer for the Council on Foreign Relations. That's why the video does a ridiculous job framing the US's coup against Ghaddafi as a fight against terrorism. And why he says "no one really knows the reason the US decided to use a coup" for every modernish coup. We all know it's economic still, and Ghaddafi was a Pan-African Unity supporter who wanted to create a Pan-African currency that would undermine the US dollar.
If life was so great under Qaddafi's reign then why were so many countrymen murdered and why was his body desecrated by his people?
@@thedick8243 ight, then explain why Libya is such a terrible place now?
Al Capone was simply outclassed.
Al Capone was small potatoes a criminal yes but small that’s why the big fish took
Him down
The US is the godfather of all mafias! The gold standard for organized crimes! Also, the stories that this guy tells is a sugar-coated version of the vices that the has US committed! The true scope of the US’s crimes is much more vicious and evil!
If the mob mafia finds a way way to make money illegal and the government finds out about it. They adapt to that idea and use it on the nation. United States congress is todays mafia mob. Anything to rob this country blind even if it means taking the country down.
Actually under Gaddafi, Lybia was a pretty good society. Under Gaddafi, Libya had free healthcare, free education for both men and women, free housing, and ultra-cheap electricity. Libya under Gaddafi had some of the highest rates of life expectancy, literacy, and per capita GDP in all Africa.
Many Americans still don’t know what the U.S. did to other countries. Thank you for this video, it’s important we talk about history even if we don’t like it.
For Americans this is a new revelation to them.
Naw we know but to stomp out communism we had to we couldn’t do boots on the ground and risk a nuclear war
@@just-some-muslim
Most people are ignorant by design. Who benefits from the general populace being incompetent?
The irony is just monumental. In a country that literally non stop goes on about freedom and democracy and the dangers of brain washing, they are the most brainwashed people by far.
@@just-some-muslim Only for those that have not been paying attention. Sadly, that is most of us. "Ignorance is bliss" should be our motto.
As a Chilean I feel sad that the military coup in my country was not presented. Letting history out is one of the few ways to make amends for the brutal damage the US has inflicted on my people.
Yeah, the same for Brazil
there is just no way there is "no solid evidence" of US government involvement in Pinochet's coup. "Operation Condor" is a historical fact accepted even by the US agencies.
There should be a whole video about the Plan Condor only
There are those of us who know and remember, across the world. But also, these voices are actively being silenced. We're at a turning point in history and im very worried we've made the wrong turn.
Have you ever read 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman' by John Perkins? It is a must for every anti imperialist and general history enthusiast
Let's not forget our own corporate coup that happened in 63'
And 2020
@@bilindamueller3154That was facilitated by the fact that 2018-2019 regulations were slashed in every sector (so severely that even the greedy ghouls in charge begged Trump to stop bcs his actions would destabilize the entire industry for years to come) Regulatory bodies were gutted & their boards filled with sycophants & ghouls from the very industries they were meant to regulate (including the CDC. So bad that legit members fled in protest refusing to take part in harming the public by fully obliterating Covid task forces, data collection, removing health protocols and guidelines from their database entirely. Not just for covid but now for MANY public health issues that could lead to missed work if citizens follow proper instructions) These changes were thought to go under the radar and lead to EVENTUAL slow full corporate takeover but when covid hit full force BCS of the previously mentioned gutting & continued meddling with proper mitigation (also done to boost corporate profits) everything came crashing down swiftly bcs all of the rules regs & precautions previous gen’s put blood sweat and tears into winning for us to prevent everything we are dealing with now had been carelessly done away with. Trump was the bull in the China shop unleashed by corporate ghouls both foreign and domestic with the aid of multiple dictators who not only financially profit just like our ghouls, but also the added benefit of the swift destabilization of a once super power.
Can’t find anything on it link?
You only missed some 40-50 more coups. And also managed to mischaracterize most of those presented.
Other than that, everything's spot on!
The outro was the most significant thing about this video. What's the point if you don't include important details. Can't tell if it's intentional white wash or just plain lazy.
The intro is very clear. Failed and unconfirmed coups are not presented. If its not on the list, its probably not confirmed. You should go recheck your sources, most likely you got a bunch of things wrong
@@ziglaus no, most was confirmed, they just don’t want to truly show the extent of crimes. Even these coups were heavily white washed. Making American history easier to digest for Americans when truly it’s more insidious than that
What you expect this guy is an American that tries to minimize the guilt and sins of his country as much as possible! The stories that this guy tells is a sugar-coated version of the vices that the US has committed! He didn’t even list 1/10th of the coups and assassinations that the US has done around the world! The true scope of the US’s crimes is much more vicious and evil than what he is willing to reveal! But then again if he reveals too much they would take his videos down like so many other videos that have already been taken down for revealing too much about the mafia godfather’s crimes!
@@ziglaus Wikileaks and declassified CIA documents say otherwise. This is just another whitewashing psyop
You forgot about Dr Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana in 1966. One of the most important coup of the African continent.
And Sukarno in Indonesia. They killed a MILLION people for literally no reason except appearing on a CIA list...
he has not mentioned other prominent coup d' etats .... JFK for a star.
As a Mexican I’m disappointed you didn’t mention the 1913 coup on President Madero which was carried out with support by the U.S. ambassador to Mexico in order to install General Victoriano Huerta. It instigated a second phase of the Mexican Revolution in which all the warring factions united in order to overthrow Huerta from power.
Successful you won that round, now we just do buissiness and kinda wanna turn you into the new China.
Yeah... That turned into a shit show. "The Ten Tragic Days." After everything that went down Madero actually thought he would be fine after stepping down, exiled but fine... He thought very very wrong.
He didn’t have to do that 😂 quite down Mexicans
The sheer amount of latinx people that have been victimized in one way or another buy the US government over the last 80 years is absolutely staggering. And this happened in both foreign and domestic settings. I’m not just referring in terms of coups but anytime the US has been able to exploit something for the benefit of the country, they have gone for it regardless of any moral objections. Truly it does bring me great fear of what my country is capable of and makes me realize that I’m not built for a world that is capable of such things. I don’t want to support that kind of predatory behavior. Ofc this is only par the course for us a a species and as social creature. I just don’t wanna associate with it any longer should it come to that once again.
@@nickmartin5568 please don’t use the term “Latinx” cuz it’s cringe. Stop trying to anglicize my native language!
I don't know much about Gaddafi and also used to think he was a completely bad guy, but he made me realise how the United Nations was built in a completely unfair way for the majority of the world, it is mainly benefitting a handful of countries who have more powers than others, namely the US & Russia.
This video was very insightful and @JohnnyHarris I truly thank you for what you do!
Videos like this and the conversations they encourage give me hope that we can fix humanity's trajectory and eradicate the hate we have for one another.
If it were voting wo veto, the US eould have bought every voice 😢. In this circumstances fair voting is not possible.
UN created by bankers
Please do one on Chile! Its story gave my goosebumps.
As a Guatemalan the multiple coup that the USA has perpetrated have traumatized our country.
I concur,I remember reading a Newsweek decades back and it said "Guatemala and DRC (then Zaire) will never know peace.I wondered how such prediction was coming real every other year.
No arguing this !!!
lol you guys have crippled your own country. Its so convienent to blame big bad USA.. but what about YOUR corrupt officials ?! What about YOUR CORRUPTION ? Your crime... drugs... gangs... its not the USA's fault its your peoples fault. Truth hurts.
@@FadedResolutions Unless you have done research on the subject ... you are really not qualified to argue the subject ... If you had done research on the subject you could not have the same defensive position !!! Sorry ...
@@superdivemaster like i said before, truth hurts.
In general, the people who benefitted from these coups were American corporations at the expense of the civilians living in those countries. Also, these coups often crushed political movements that may have increased democracy and/or improved the living conditions of the poor and working class people of those countries. These coups are why Central America is such a dangerous place to live today and why so many people are fleeing to America. The U.S. govt, for the benefit of American corporations, is responsible for today's migrant crisis at the border. Greed.
And that is why American politics is working so hard on convincing the population that outside ppl bad. So that they can crush them even harder.
Yes the poor civilians never benefit ever realize thugs are running the show
And the poor soldiers that "served" their country.
Funny how America fought for independence from Britain because of their colonialism and then went on to do this stuff
@@markironside9818 I mean after that with the Native American and the Black people. Can't say I'm surprised
Many people mention the 22 Feb 2014 coup in Ukraine, where the death toll has now climbed to 500,000, and many people fault your characterization of Gaddafi, but no one mentions the 1965 coup in Indonesia, where the CIA overthrew Sukarno, installed Suharto, and provided Suharto with the names of 500,000 who were then executed.
Nice narrative😜 but the insurrection in Ukraine was not induced by the US.
Ukrainians were just fed up with the exploitation and corruption of Russian oligarchs. That movement already started in 2004/2005. In 2014 Ukrainians were fed up when the pro-russian President suddenly denied to sign a cooperation agreement with the EU they had been fighting for. That was the reason for their protests. This was the will of the Ukrainians.
And the snipers that killed more than a hundred protesters
were later identified as russian FSB agents.
wow i didnt know suharto came in power because of the CIA. it was a very dark time for indonesia especially the chinese immigrants. A lot of bloodshed during Suharto regime.
@@calavino223 Bangladesh also witnessed coup because of CIA.
@@calavino223its really bloody, not just 500k but around milion, it was a dark time
hilarious that Dulles is your thumbnail for government officials involved. He should be considered Mr.Coup
Initially, I read it as "McCoup"; works either way.
"Okay, we got to move a little quicker here, or we're not going to get through all these coups."
🤣🤣🤣
Understand why foreign countries have to do how they do know? You ne corrupt and serf "ours' of we will... Democracy lmao. Ome wat or the other we will get a leader in that benefits our elites that should not be. With your money paying for it. Not in your or the nations best interest. Not for the people in that country. Go figure why the world hates us and our muppet states.
there are far more on the list than that....canada was a "soft coup" complete with dual citizenship "Canadian-American" who live here and hold positions of real power.....usually bankster family's kids....canada is being looted worse than any african country and they flood the country with hard drugs and use the profit to buy guns and canadian real estate...our "dollar" is fake and manipulated to make us poorer
He never mentioned the coup in Ukraine in 2014.
He never mention Yugoslavia.
He never mentioned many of the other coups directly made by the US.
He also was talking about some phantom terrorist organisations.
This is obviously an incomplete video, and not a very truthful one.
At least he acknowledged at the start that there’s more he’s not covering. I agree because there’s more in Africa like Congo
You’re right re Ukraine in 2014. If only more ppl knew of this, when a greedy Vogue posing gnome begs USA for billions of dollars, it should be a sign that something stinks !!!
If anything, this whole thing has made me
He’s definitely not depicting USA as a reasonable country of good guys that’s ffs
@@bmsuperstar1 He does this a lot sadly
It's truly heartbreaking just how much misery and bloodshed have been forced upon the world. Millions of lives destroyed, resources pillaged, entire nations ruined forever. All in the name of profit and greed, with the aid of taxpayer money, while hiding behind ideals of liberty, democracy and "civilisation".
It seems like Karma is in play 🤗
Grow up kid,it has allways been thus ! A lot of people have reason to be gratefull to The USA,especially its people.
My reletives saw and knew young men go to Europe and never come back along with our own and allies. I have had a good life I will allways be gratefull to people I never knew. Its only when you get old you realise how lucky you have really been.
FUMF
@@philiprufus4427 ofc you can be grateful for having a good life in a decent safe country like America. but in reality that has nothing to do with war at all because war is something not to be grateful for There are a few wars that America did that we should 100% be grateful of like the Civil War, the war that gave us independence wars that helped us. but there are wars where we just go to countries and say that we "help them" but in reality, we just kill innocent civilians and kill our own people in the process wasting a lot of money that could have made our country a better place like having better healthcare system fixing homelessness and adding a better transportation system. and I'm not saying that I am not grateful for what the American people did they did a lot of stuff that I could not imagine like the computer which is one of my favorite inventions. is that I want this country to be a better place and not destroy other countries in the process.
it was much before usa
Wild that you missed operation Condor. One of the most brutal and inhuman coups tied directly to the US.
Series of coups
Johnny we need a deep dive into the vietnam war
Watch pbs a history of Viet Nam war ...& Ho chi mein / Viet Men
So much dirt on their hands and they have audacity to say they want democracy
Blood . Not dirt .
Every country meddles in others. Every country acts for their own interests. That how humanity operates
@@Jay_Frank this is a hard concept for them to understand
@@Jay_Frank first of all, false. Secondly, even if that was true, that doesn't it make it right or unpreventable
@@thomaszhang5437 Not false lol
Coups are terrifying, the fact that governments and countries could just dissolve...
Gov is just a group of people. How easy is it to dissolve that? Very.
@Don't Read My Profile Picture Get a job
Even more scary when they happen from within and a bunch of rich tax evaders hijack xenophobe tendencies to avoid upcoming tax bills.
Looking at you Britain.
It also serves as a reminder that people as whole are very easily manipulated
If you control the money you control the world
I wish you made this longer and more detailed. Even if you didn't want to go in depth, you should have mentioned even more coups that many of younger generations and people around the world don't know about. A part 2 really should be made.
A fantastic video production. The best half hour of the week! These covert actions are really complicated and the results are dubious for sure.
"democracy"? lols
Uruguayan here. I'm I a bit disappointed that Uruguay didn't make the video, nevertheless in real life we usually get sweeped under the carpet. Both my Gradparents spent time in hard labor/concentration camps, and my parents started their early years fatherless. I'm glad someone is talking about this. I think that when an average person thinks of Latin America they usually think of poverty and domestic violence yet usually don't know why. I live in California and there are many great things about the USA, but it also has many problems (like every other country) that it needs to solve. Addressing this is one of them. 🇺🇾🇺🇾
Let’s bring some attention to this then, try and surface this comment.
Nada, hermano. Ustedes nunca son olvidados, lo siento mio español no és muy bueno, salutos de Brazil!
You are right..Most of the world kinda dont understand the influence of Estados Unidos on south American countries.Almoast like C.Columbos statues and history attached to his name.
@@seadfacic2924 🤣🤣🤣
100% agree. My uncle is currently the Charge at the US embassy in Uruguay and I've had discussions with him specifically on US involvement. Johnny was pretty irresponsible with how he handled and breezed over US involvement in Latin America in this video. Pretty pissed off with this video.
As as African, the Lumumba coup is the most painful 😢 DRC has never risen close to its full potential. Africans and our leaders need to wake up!!! ✊🏾
It's so sad, Patrice Lumumba could have been the kind of statesman President Mandela was. There's a university named after him in Russia. Most famous student? Carlos the Jackal.
They are waking up. Burkina faso and Mali are on the way
African leaders also want to exploit dr congos resources
African countries have been severely affected by powers. The french did worse and are still doing it. Slavery has not yet been completed uprooted.
If they wake up they get killed, and they know it
One thing left out about Grenada; the Soviet involvement. I know a Marine who served in the invasion and he talked about shooting it out with Soviet military. This was left out of individual military records which he was not happy about. While still on Reserve status the Iraq war broke out and he recieved a knock on his door. It was the military telling him to report in. He told where to go and slammed the door. This was in Alaska where two other Marines also took part in the invasion of Grenada. They were all promised jobs by the Mayor of Anchorage, Tony Knowels. He lied. Also you left out how Reagan used Manuel Noriega in the Iran/Contra debacle forcing him to sell drugs. When the U.S. came after him he contacted Attorney Edgar Paul Boyko (Frank Senatra Jr kidnapping case) but made the mistake of admitting to using a landline to call him so Boyko couldent help him and urged him to run.
As a dominican I find it weird that you mentioned the assasination of Trujillo instead of the 1965 intervention and coup where there were US troops deployed. Also they were not hitmen, they even rejected CIA pay on moral grounds.
I wish you had covered the Chilean coup a bit more, and there IS rock solid evidence. I was able to even find classified documents about Operation Condor and Chile for the research I had to do for college.
I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't address almost anything about the coups in Brazil and Chile, it just goes to show how the US people don't care about South America.
The horrible effects America has inflicted upon my home of chile is so clear and evident i dont know how anyone could deny it or claim there is no evidence. even recently with the riots.
I am here to ask Johnny for a video on the chilean coup too.
My grandparents had to escape from Chile during Pinochet's reign as refugees with my mom when she was a baby. They watched their country, and their lives get destroyed on September 11th, 1973. My best friends grandfather was also in Santiago when the air force were dropping bombs on La Moneda and besieging the capital. He was later imprisoned at the national stadium and was then taken to the Chacabuco concentration camp where he was tortured. There are so many fucked up stories from other Chileans in my community from that time.
as someone from latin America, they cannot fit everything into one video. He already made videos about Guatemala and Panama. Hopefully in thefuture, they will make those videos.
Imagine if this was a full list. It would be hours long.
Yeah for example the last coup attempt in turkey
@@SixWasTakenThat’s actually not the US’s fault. Turkey has a history of military coups against governments that espoused politics that weren’t secular because of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s policy of tasking the army with upholding state secularism. That and Turkey has not had any significant length of time where genuine democracy existed
@@SixWasTaken Actually, i think the most recent was Pakistan, where the US ousted Imran Khan.
@@rileykaiseeker4294 I think usa should start doing something called mind your own business
@@Edmonton-of2ec genuine democracy doesnt work well for turkey like russia and Most of the coup attemps are fully paid for by the US government and its obvious enough that i am surprised you didnt know. I suggest u research more
Great video. Just stumbled across your channel today. Got yourself a new subscriber!
Skipped through the 70s without mentioning Australia and the removal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
The US had nothing to do with the removal of Whitlam. In a free election Australians voted in Malcom Fraser.
Whitlam was removed by the Governor General at the insistence of the CIA and with the Crown's support. The election followed. @@michaelbraybrook1316
@@michaelbraybrook1316 that is actually just not true. Whitlam was elected and the us and uk forced him out of power using a loophole and replaced him with a us friendly candidate. Stop spreading misinformation
@michaelbraybrook1316 obviously you are unaware of the millions of dollars the CIA pumped into the coffers of the opposition coalition in the run up to that election then?
@@michaelbraybrook1316 absolutely not true the CIA used the Governor General who was in the CIA's pocket to fire our prime minister. Please research before blabbering shit.
I think a video on Chile's coup is important, in Latinoamérica this is one of the most widely regarded examples of US meddling in foreign politics.
Would love to see more about that too, it should become common knowledge to people
@@mjolninja9358 Jake Tran made a good detailed video on it. That's where I learned about it.
@@YS-sz2ti yeah I saw that one too, First time I saw it was a documentary by the RUclipsr Plastic Pills
@@mjolninja9358
🤨Yeah, Pinochet ( *et al* !) were all just friggin’ *androids* remotely-controlled from a facility in Langley, right??
🙄And _doubtless_, Allende and his comrades were *absolutely* faultless too, right?
Yeah this dude johnny Harris is friggin CIA - there's obv so much evidence for the us backed coup, pinochet waa basically a paid actor of the CIA, Allende was democratically elected.
I mean yes, he's probably not CIA, but even with his trying of doing a video ok the astrocities of the US he's romanticizing capitalist agenda, because he's overlooking facts and trying his best to defend the US - listen to him how he says we have no idea how NATO got involved in Libya.
I'm surprised no American leader past or present has faced a court of law for war crimes.
I’m surprised that the USA is not a member of the ICC (international criminal court)
with the amount of money they make off these wars, the law cannot touch them
sadly in this world, money=power, and they are very very powerful lol.
@@jeroxis9975 Today they would but they hide them behind so much Garbage and rhetoric that we dont learn the true evil they committed until that president is long dead
@@jeroxis9975 God can!
Court of law for war crimes is only for countries development and Russia loooool
You failed to mention the Maidan Coup in Ukraine in 2014 which is still causing huge problems today.
Six minutes in and it has been a total education:- I have eight 'O' levels; two 'A' level; TWO undergraduate degrees AND have read HUNDREDS of books but am hearing about these coups for the very first time (I always wondered how Hawaii, out in the Pacific ocean became associated with America enough to become a state(!).
This video is a real service to modern history and anti-imperialism.
It is quite scary how America managed to in, effect, DISAPPEAR from world history between reconstruction in 1870 and entering WW1 in 1917 while all the time cutting its teeth in the deadly games of deceit and death which we know to have been its primary contribution to the world since 1945.
Read Noam Chomsky and David Graeber
Thank you - I will. Best wishes@@pedrorexSWG
Each coup should be a series on its own. I've watched the whole video without realizing it's almost half an hour long. I'd watch the whole series if it would be made. Thank you JH for this amazing work!
Thank you! It’s true each of these could be a video itself
Would you consider a series on individual coups.
To Harris
@@johnnyharris , I'm SO DOWN to watch a full series on US backed coups... It would be fascinating to dive into each country for 20-25 minutes, explore the history of the country before the coup, the coup itself, and the political aftermath that we are left with today. And then there is a WHOLE other discussion about the Eisenhower administration and coups...
@@johnnyharris it should be and would be worthwhile for any studio/news outlet/video documentary publisher
@@johnnyharris To be honest my country the Philippines has a lot of American influence and we are thankful because of the different way western nations think that seeks logic and truth. The Spaniards were too religious and kept us ignorant. But knowing that the US employs a coup d etat and easily throws a government that does not seem to agree with them, (to me) is like a candle being lit up in the dark. It kinda opened a lot of ideas which I find no longer farfetch.
To give you an example is the previous Duterte government. His strategy was opposite of the previous Aquino government and he is pivoting towards China. In some of his speeches, he will tell crazy tales like he will be overthrown, impeached or even assassinated by the CIA. Many dismissed it because of his popularity and high approval ratings. But thinking about it after watching your video, there's some truth to it. He was a strongman and a strongman was needed to fix and shake the ailing country.
A follow-up video including failed coups would be legendary
And where would we be today if coups had failed like Iran 1953 and Ukraine 2014
@@davidayers5173 i dont know. You tell me
hopefully the failed psy ops and lawsuits vs a USA political opponent will go down as a failed coup. people need to wake up because what our government has done to countless other countries (seen in this video) it'd doing to the republican party now
To follow up on the Chilean coup that is really interesting because out of the coups on here, it was the only one with political hits on American soil.
Just two years ago in Venezuela? lol 😅
After almost every single Johnny's map video - I really want to play Civilization again.
Henry Kissinger on Chile "make the economy scream".
Many people are shocked by the fact Americans don't know what America did, but what I am shocked by more is how all the world's countries get mass reprimand and backlash for even the slightest of mistakes and errors (let alone declarations of war, war crimes, accusations of propaganda etc.) but the US is just allowed to walk off without any punishment time and time again.
Because we play a vital role in the world economy and we are the worlds one super power pretty simple if you ask me
That's very entitled and selfish of you, man@@james6208
@@james6208 might makes right. Also why a lot of non-western citizen sees western values as a crude joke. They don't value human rights, just for their own.
The U.S. is still top-dog. It also helps that the U.S. is still better.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Economically speaking, not better than China anymore.
Thank you very much for this video. Everyone should know about this. My family was exiled from Guatemala when the coup happened and the country still has not gotten back on its feet. The coup literally plunged my country into decades of civil war
It hasn't because Guatamala is probably controlled by the USA behind closed doors. It seems like there are a lot of issues when a country lets the USA control it. USA literally promote this idea of the right to bear arms, despite it not being a right or a law in that country. That is why all the countries south of the USA, like Gautamala, are experiencing a lot of death by guns, which causes people to leave.
@Chris P are you saying that "the right to bear arms" isn't a right in the U.S or Guatemala? It may not be in Guatemala but it certainly is in the United Statea
@@chrisp7110 you’re partway there; think past right to bear arms that US imposed upon Guatemala and you’re on the right track!
Sill pro America video
No CIA & MOSSAD,No coup
I appreciate you making this video. It's hard to do justice to all of these events in a short time frame. I would have preferred a more accurate framing of US presence in the Philippines and Congo. However, you left enough breadcrumbs for those interested in knowing more. Good job.
And all along i thought Mosad was bad? Great informative video! Thanks for what you do!
As a South American I lost my grandfather in the Operation Condor context. He was torture and killed by the militaries backed up by US. We went more than 20 years without a democracy and under a military dictatorship. Nowadays US foreign state use lawfare (at least in South America) to bankrupt companies and directly influence in state affairs .
I was a kid when I saw American soliders and their tanks invading iraq we were under crippling sanctions
@immortal9922 that's because Iraq didn't wanna play ball.
@@seandidsomething saddam hussein was already a cia agent installed by west
@@seandidsomethingThe reason for the American invasion of Iraq is even more baseless than the Ukraine war by Russia right now. It is shameful how no one in charge was held accountable
My good man, you're South America is still in shit, because the countries there were always too busy with other things than with economical developement. Oh, a big part pf you're insuccess was "guaranteed" by soviet intervention in that part of the American Continent. I hear now China is continuing the Soviets legacy, there. Corruption and the undereducation of Latin American nations also lead to their situation.
2:30 in and already surprised, didn’t expect to start in the 1800s!
Great video...really enjoyed it. Subscribed!!
i remember a guy waving off the entire middle east, saying 'they are always killing each other over there' and i remember how much it pissed me off bc of exactly this. Such ignorance towards the crimes of the US (and the brits too) and what an easy and disgusting way to view those that suffered most.
“They’re always killing each other over there” is such a wild statement considering it’s more of they’re always killing us over there (and vice versa) and we’re too busy killing each other back home to care 😂
Has that guy seen how many shootings there are in the U.S? Seems kind of hypocritical to say something like that
@@yousifalbofradi7837 Note that a lot of the middle east and latinamerican shootings is done with American guns
Have you looked into the history of the Middle East pre 9/11? They really were just killing each other lol. The Shia vs Suni conflicts have impacted almost every Muslim nation
Its funny, because in Damascus up until today usually you have mosques just next to churches, sometimes they get out from prayer and salute each other, handshake and before the covid even kiss, check on eachother matters and very respectfully go to their work.
In the areas where the US supported like pakistan Jihad was created, in Syria u see the same groups controlling the local matters now under the freedom name, and they literally have signs that say "democracy is the weapon of the west don't be fooled" and unsurprisingly u don't see Christians out there.
Thanks for the US for their democracy and values but we won't buy them.
You left out a big one: Indonesia, twice.
The first attempt to overthrow the left-leaning Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, in 1958 failed instantly after the Soviet Union intervened with the plans.
In mid-1960s, however, General Suharto, backed by the CIA, led the army to oust Sukarno's Old Order and get rid of the Indonesian Communist Party, resulting in the deaths of one million suspected Communists. The CIA campaign has made a long-lasting impact in Indonesian society, and the fear of Communism in the country still runs high to this day.
There are excellent documentaries and books about the '60s coup, among them "The Act of Killing" by Joshua Oppenheimer and "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins. Check them out if you haven't.
yes !!!! 😩
this coup was also used within the CIA as an example of how anti-communist coups were supposed to be conducted and the 'Jakarta method' was implemented in many asian and latin american countries afterwards. To understand how and why the US facilitated so many coup d'etats in the post-war period you really need to look at this one first.
"Jakarta is coming."
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@@hendricahyana full audiobook! :) ruclips.net/video/gOZY-Mt1ciE/видео.html
I was very surprised he chose not to cover Indonesia, as it underpins so many of the others.
Hey, I don't see Yanukovich's portrait on the preview image
Amazing ! Real History in a powerful and concise way !
"To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal"
You should be thankful the USSR didn’t come out on top.
It's exactly what the indigenous tribes of the Americas learnt on their way to extinction at the hands of the US cavalry.
Obviously, the US made some unjustified and terrible options. The thing is, people (like you did now) took Kissinger's quote out of context.
Quoting someone:
_The context is advice Kissinger was giving the Nixon administration on handling the leader of a South Vietnamese coup:_
_"Nixon should be told that it is probably a goal of (Johnson’s Defense Secretary) Clifford to remove Thieu (South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu) before Nixon takes office. One should tell Nixon that if Thieu suffers the same fate as Diem, the nations of the world will learn that being America's enemy may be dangerous, but being America's friend is fatal.”_
_In short, he’s saying exactly the opposite of what the misquote is trying to claim. The quote likes to pretend this is Kissinger describing reality. In fact, Kissinger is describing an alternate reality that should not be tolerated (and wasn’t). It’s the difference between science and science fiction..._
_NOTE: His advice was followed. The Nixon administration made no effort to end Thieu’s regime, so Thieu remained head of South Vietnam until moments before it fell in 1975._
_I’d say, consider this deliberate deception the next time you read anything written on [the internet] by someone who likes to misquote Kissinger, because it shows they’re willing to bend truth until it breaks._
Very interesting. I'm all for making who was responsible to be responsible, but when you have two evils and have to pick one to defend - it makes sense to go with the lesser evil (which clearly is not Putin). Then again, it depends on what context and who's involved ... and some people love to overgeneralize which I hate.
NOT anymore , with China , Russia and the Asia rising , collectively make a force much bigger than the US . America won't dare to attack non of these countries.
@@DanielKolbin Nevertheless, yours is still a personal opinion.
How did you skip Argentine and Uruguay? with Kissinger fingers at the same time with
the heads of Montoneros Tupamaros, at the same time mobilizing Armies of both countries
the Called Operaciòn Condor.
Too many U.S. coups to mention them all...
The US wasn't indirectly involved in either the Uruguayan Coup of 1973 or the Argentine Coup of 1976. They were certainly pleased with the results, for a while Argentina supplied military advisors to US backed repressive regimes in Central America, teaching torture and CRW methods.
@@user-bo5dl9hr8k "wasn't indirectly involved, just trained the military in clandestine operations and the playbook of doing a coup" I'm assuming it was a typo, but I'm from Brasil and here was indirect involvement as in they just said that if the coup went bad they'd sent an aircraft carrier and pushed the idiots in the army to actually act, besides the training and financial support of operation condor. But Argentina was definitely more direct, kinda halfway to the style that happened in Chile. The US is definitely the most terrorist and criminal organisation of the 20th century
@@zedascouve2180 OK we could quibble about what constitutes direct and indirect assistance but in the case of the 1964 coup in Brazil it is absolutely clear that Vernon Walters played a very direct and influential role in effecting the coup. He travelled up and down the country bolstering support amongst the military and providing them with guarantees of military and diplomatic support. It's arguable that many if not most would have lacked the courage without the green light from the US.
Argentina in 1976 was already a shit show (a near perpetual state of affairs) although it would get infinitely worse under the junta. I have seen no evidence that there was direct involvement by the US in the coup itself. Operation Condor is a quite separate topic.
Quite agree about the old Estados Unidos criminal culpability. A cheer was raised along with several glasses in this household the day that Kissinger died.
Cara, eu morei no Brasil, gastei muito tempo lá e conheço bem o país e sua história.
Um abraço
J
@@user-bo5dl9hr8k yeah, you are right, I guessed i mixed things up, just get really upset with this topic.
Haha I also cracked a beer and put some political songs from these times, specially the hopeful ones, when Kissinger finally went to sit on Satan's lap.
Posso perguntar de onde você é?
Abraço
Johnny, you will come to the realization that 2014 Maidan in Ukraine was also a coup.
You left out the US-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014.
And you left out that there's nothing illegal about Russia buying Facebook ads for any reason at all. That's how freedom of expression works.
Quite disapointed that you didn't add Argentina's last dictatorship which was a huge part of the condor plan lead by the US like you did with Chile and Brasil but so glad you cover other countries as well. My grandfather disappeared on 1976 when the coup started so if you have any questions, i'll be glad to answer :)
as Argentinian I agree 100%, we all know that US was behind the coups. Also until these years through the IMF which is controlled by US and they approve unpayable credits only to US friendly presidents (like Mauricio Macri). Thats the new way of coup: economic.
Same here. Hope he does an entire video about the Plan Condor.
The coups in Brazil, Argentina and Chile were above all organized by their own military forces. Just the same way as populist phenomena like Peron or Bolsonaro are home grown. The CIA was certainly supportive, but not at all the driving force that it was in Iran, and Plan Condor was not really central. If you do not root out the fascism in your own society, the same mistakes will happen.
Same, there’s so much stuff that wasn’t mentioned. I’m glad people are giving push back in the comment section, because the reality is most Americans aren’t even aware of these coups.
Everyone commenter ever "can't believe that the coup US led on x country wasn't talked about by him".
Jesus. Calm down.
As an Indonesia, you need to talk about how US backed the coup of Soekarno that eventually become the method they used in all of Latin America, and they named it Jakarta method
Yes and they did the operation twice, second one between 1994-1998, some will said 1996-1998 but the tips from CIA to several conglomerate started from 1994. Jakarta method, in Jakarta, twice.
didnt they fund and support the seperstist that led to the creation of East Timor Leste?
@@muhammadradhivan8436 I can very well see a third time in the future if our country remain or becomes too friendly with China. Third times a charm right?
@@MsHarunaMoon third time will be easier as many business in Indo are duopoly or triopoly by big company. CIA just need to get 1-2 of them greedier than ever then hits then collapse.
@@mcfragger2605 Many agencies were involved in East Timor, the speculation is US and Australia are definitely involved, Australia is more involved at least even more in recent years because of natural gas. Although this matter isn't really known substantially by the general public of Indonesia, they know about the invasion and the general figures involved, but nothing much more than that
"Sometimes stories matter more than Truth."
Yeah, sometimes, as in, all the time.
Hi Johnny Harris
I'm a big fan and the same thing happened to us in Slovakia when in 1992 under the name of the gentle revolution they changed the regime and started stealing the state because we were underdeveloped with a strong setup for economic growth and with a political coup financed from abroad they set us back 30 years and we are called a thorn in the eye of the west.
I’m appalled by all the shitty and shady things my country has done. All of it was curiously absent from all my history textbooks 📚
😅😅😅
ما تم ذكره في الفيديو هو أمور بديهية بالنسبة لنا ..
Every country does this shit. US is just the most powerful in the world so they do a little more than others. It's a tale as old as time.
Peru / CIA involvement
At least 49 civilians were killed in clashes with the police or military during protests after President Pedro Castillo was impeached last December when he tried to dissolve Congress and rule by decree, according to figures from the country’s ombudsman’s office.
A New York Times investigation in March found that in three towns where deadly clashes occurred, the police and soldiers had fired shotguns at civilians using lethal ammunition, shot assault rifles at fleeing protesters and killed unarmed people, often in apparent violation of their own protocols.
Idk where u live but we learned about everything in this video
I’m from Chile living in the US since I was 10. I am 28 now and I’ve always hear of the crazy stuff that went down with Pinoche, I was excited to hear about this but then it got cut off. Sad. Would love to hear more in-depth about what happened and the US’s role in it. It’s very interesting! Love your videos!
You should watch the video “cybersocialism” by plasticpills
As a chilean myself, I really hope Johnny, Iz, and their team include some of the CIA redacted documents when they release this story
te recomiendo el libro "the pinochet file" de peter kornbluh.
Second Thought has a decent video on it, it's called something like "The US doesn't interfere with foreign affairs"
@@maxyork1175 you are irrelevant, nobody cares about Chile .
ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING VIDEO, I WILL SURELY LOOK FOR ANY VIDEOS OF YOURS THAT COVER ANY OF THESE COUNTRY'S THE UNITED STATES MEDDLED IN. EXTREMELY INTERESTING VIDEO. I WILL SURELY WATCH IT AGAIN.
Fantastic video from a history buff this video was spectacular
You're creating a gem of history. No countries dare put this history into their textbooks. Really appreciate your works
Except he put propaganda crap at the end, as if Russia meddling with Trump elections was a bad thing, heck, do it again then, I bet US currently will welcome another 4 years of Trump, Hillary have been a disastrous foreign minister, thank God she lost, nearly won because her husband got a blow job(none from her own accolades). So mentioning the propaganda is completely useless, not even effective and nearly got world peace for a change.
The man that made this video is a Democrat that's why he didn't mention the 2014 takeover of Ukraine Victoria nuland CIA controlled by the Democratic Party the modern Ukrainian government control the Democratic Party it's a direct result of that 2014 takeover
In the video is said that the coup in Libya (as far as we know it is Franco-British) is a NATO-American coup. very serious thing to say. naturally the video does not report the sources despite an accusation of such gravity
can’t even do this in Canada.
@@_LoremIpsum en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Libya
I can't believe you left out Ukraine in 2014, which is so consequential to the world today.
His bias is showing. That's why he left key events
He seems to be very anti Russia
That's what I was thinking, also, "Sem the binena men" 🤔😂🤣 Americans and vowels.
Yes. Based on IOA in Usa we have at least 85 confirmed CIA made coup's after WWII. This video is strongly biased leaving out 2014 Maidan coup which ultimately led to Russia sending military aid to Donbass area. After those territories declared independence. Victoria Nuland was cherry picking Ukraine puppet government in 2014.
I am not watching this video any further. Or this channel.
you did a great job on this. 💪👏
This is exactly what i was thinking about all f* day!! My yt is starting to read my shower thoughts with these recommendations!
As a Thai who learn the history of my own country during the Cold War, I can confirm that the States also got themselves involved in our politics as well.
As an Indonesian, I thought Thailand never got involved in any political nonsense, the US definitely got their hands on in Indonesia in the 60s, throwing the 1st president Soekarno out of office and backed the "coup" general Soeharto into office. The reason? you all probably could've guessed it. Yep, communism. I'm surprised Johnny didn't put this in, but that's probably because the lack of evidence and sources regarding the US involvement, but we all definitely knew they're definitely involved real deep
In Israel to overthrow Netanyahu too led by Obama.
@@p.millard557 Brian is not a source to be trusted, and this is coming from a Thai who loathed US imperialism
They are trying in my country as well.. in 1975 it was direct CIA Involvement of the killing of Bangladesh’s Father of the Nation .. after almost 50 years now they are trying to overthrow his daughter from power.
The US government is involved in it's current elections too.
You missed Angola.... It's a big one! They found oil.... The rest is history but south Africa helped Namibia in a border dispute but soon they found out they were fighting against American weapons and a much more resourceful army....
Angolan actual regime was actually one of the few that managed to survive US coups. Cuba and URSS entered the civil war and prevented the coup from happening, just like in Sirya today. The US was supporting the opposition rebels lead by Savimbi.
He should have mentioned Rwanda and Burundi.
The amount of likes your comment got shows how easily it is to spread misinformation
@@1individeo
Yes .
You forgot egypt I think and placing Sissi. Also Kaddagi wasn't killed on the spot, he was tortured, there is a wikipedia page on that
This was great. Thank you
Wilmington, North Carolina 1898. You missed this one. BTW, Libya had a very high standard of living before Qaddafi was removed.
The Wilmington one is massively overlooked.
Exactly. And he forgot to mention that education, electricity, medical insurance, and gas were free during Qaddafi's rule. He also forgot to mention that he ruled the country with greek style direct democracy - every decision was taken through public referendum. or the fact that under his rule the GDP per capita of libya went from $40 to $27,000 because he nationalised resources. Also refused to mention the role of Qaddaffi in controlling terrorism, increasing women empowerment and stemming immigration to Europe. or the fact that he supported the black panthers, IRA and other independence movements across the globe. I seriously don't buy that gaddaffi was a bad guy. A bit of a loudmouth, maybe. The bad guys were Obama, Hillary and Biden - absolutely evil for what they did to the entire region during that time. partially lynched it.
@@wrongturnVforbut what about the mass killings? The hangings of young students? Are we just going to to act like these things didn’t happen
@@wrongturnVfor he is a leftist thats why that one is the only coup where he portrayed the us as the good guys, cuz it was under obama administration with biden vp and hillary secretary of state
@@iknotwill1261 What mass killings? Students or terrorists? Remmeber the mujahideen were "young students" too. maybe don't believe NYT on how they classify things.
My man skipped through pretty much the whole of South America during the Cold War in a "Every US-led coup, mapped" video. Amazing
Also UKRAINE. Just to put a current twist on things
Yeah it was not at all accurate to title his video using the word "every"
This guy is good at doing CIA propoganda.. "look guys we didn't do that much regime change"
@@solodolotrevino
Harris: Look how the CIA instituted those brutal leaders in other countries.
Commentors: You're such a CIA shill!
@@winzracingNZ NO! UKraine wanted to get close to the West, just like Poland, because it didn’t want it to be “smaller brother” to abusive Russia, who was holding it back. It suffered enough and USA saw the opportunity and supported Ukraine, not the other way around!
great vid, you gotta add Egypt!
I am a Honduran and growing up heard stories of the power the banana companies Standard Fruit company, Dole had in Honduras 🇭🇳
CostaRica also
Those who are most vocal about defending human rights have turned out to be the deadliest murderers of innocent civilians.
- Wang Wenbin
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Stalin, who cannot in any way be suspected of liberalism, remarked with irony: "I always thought that democracy is the power of the people, but Comrade Roosevelt clearly explained to me that democracy is the power of the American people." And Stalin was still cunning - democracy is not the power of the people, and not even the power of the American people, but the power of the Democratic Western Cult.
@@monaliza3334 The faces of those who they elect change but the policy's and main descion making never changes.
It's to give the people the illusion that they are in control.
American democracy.
(In 2014 america overthrew Ukraines democratically elected president, and put their puppet in, zelensky.
People don't understand the Russia/Ukraine was a deliberate plan. Theirs more to the picture that it seems at first glance...
@@monaliza3334 Well put 👌
you never been so true lol
For a country (or at least government, I know a lot of its citizens are not aware of what their leaders are doing!) that claims to be the "World's Police", they do have this uncanny knack of picking probably the worst people to endorse to the throne of those countries where they establish a coup. Somehow, after all these, they make things worse for those directly involved and sometimes it even comes back to bite them.
A bit like the real American police I guess... ruling through terror and arbitrary violence, accountable to no-one but themselves
America as the world's police makes a lot of sense if you look at the current state of American policing
Well in my country some people called American a "world police" that make Sense replace a dictator to another dictator in name democracy
Most interesting how long America can survive without "military interference influence another big arms dealer" while Chinese play debt trap in the name Economic and investment
Facts.
don't know why the US keeps doing this shit when more than half the time it backfires on them
Very good. But you left out the accession of Gadaffi in Libya in 1969. Wasn't this a US-backed coup?
Letter to home from a Reagan era marine:
Hello muddah, hell faddah,
Somehow now I'm in Grenadah.
One of my favorite sayings I've learned so far...... "If you walk past a body of water and there's two fish fighting in a pond be sure an Englishman just walked by" 🤷🏾♂️
Sadly, so much of the world still falls for it. The current crisis in Ukraine, all the Ukrainian and Russian suffering there? An Anglo or three walked by, did a little meddling. Or a lot.
Pretty dumb saying considering fish always fight
I used to have Chinese fighting fish
Well said the English are involved.
@@XXXTENTAClON227It's not that dumb if you understand the nature of the Englishman
United States of America is really the cancer of the world
It’s always weird when everyone knows the dark past of different countries, but everyone just lives on like it didn’t happen.
Ask me why I would care?
@@LittleSaladBar You're the problem.
They still have Power
What are we supposed to do with the information though?
@@LittleSaladBar you should know if your country feeds on the deaths of others, so you know if you are a beast or a decent human. No murican is a decent human 😂
This came in to give this a thumbs up straight away
I feel like the US getting the Australian prime minister swapped in 1975 also deserves a video at some point coz doing it to an ally is pretty crazy too.
Hilarious how the US did this in so many countries, yet the government expects us to not believe they couldn't do it here with JFK. Great videos, earned a subscriber.
Or a recent/future election
they've been puppets ever since
@oyunome ok who was the person who should of won the last election?
It's widely know now that they knew he was going to be assassinated, but lots of folks in intelligence wanted him dead so they did nothing to stop it.
Watch a film by Paul Wittenberg called AFTER THE TRIBULATION Also watch a documentary called loose change an American,
Major General Smedley D. Butler was the most highly decorated Marine prior to Chesty Puller taking the record after Butler's death in 1940. Butler fought in the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution and World War I. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, Central America, the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I.
He wrote a short essay titled, "War Is A Racket" that is available to read online. It details the true nature of war (*all* war) and shows how the average soldier is deceived into thinking they are fighting for some noble cause, like freedom. I highly recommend it.
Funny you made this comment about Butler. He actually was asked by secret societies (Bush and Walker and other big industrialists) to perform a coup to overthrow Roosevelt and install a nazi government. This is actually real! It's called the Business Plot.
The U.S was behind the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine hence the current conflict of today..
It is a book that truly changed my perspective on the world. It’s also only like 50 pages so a great quick read.
so crazy to see all these people know about smedley and also have read his book......and still support sending foreign aid to ukraine
He also went on to foil the Business Plot, a plan funded by powerful elites in the US to enact a coup against FDR. Fascinating guy all around
What a fantastic succinct video, especially the part about Iran. An example of how US aggression abroad has so profoundly impacted a nation for many decades thereafter.
If I was a history teacher this would be one chapter in my class.
You missed alot.
It's honestly so heartbreaking to see the lengths USA has gone to, to get what they want. They had no business doing half of these things, getting hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in the process, the 'right' thing was never their focus, it was money.
Are you really that naive? Everything has always been about the money, forever! Duh, it makes the world go round.
@@sextond I mean I'm only 19 yrs old, and grew up in India, so I had a skewed perspective on rhe world to begin with. So yeah ig I was and still am pretty naive.
@@sextondwhat a cynical and simplistic answer...
@@RitvikivtiRthey had no business doing any of these things. great that we have now the means to educate ourselves.
It's not about the US, it's about men with power who want more power. Other nations throughout history have done the same, it's just the US turn ATM. China is not doing any better currently, Europeans have done it, hell even African nations have done it in the past when they reigned. The casualties are the masses who really want to live a peaceful life, and are sold the dream of democracy.
Fun Fact: Sadam Hussain was also put into place by the US government. He was meant to keep a certain country busy by attacking them (sry, I don't remember if it was Saudi Arabia or Iran) , this way US businesses were free to plunder the oil fields in Kuwait without any competitions. For his efforts, the US had promised him help, getting his very own oil springs, but as usual, they forgot about that. And so, Hussain turned around and attacked Kuwait to get the promised oil wells, the very oil wells the US claimed for themself and thus Hussain became enemy No1.
Where’s the source? BBC? lmao, Saddam Hussain was brave leader not your US puppet that’s why they killed him in first place
Yes this was a hilarious fact.
And Saddam Hussein want to nationalize the oil company, so his country could be as rich as the Uni Emirates.
@derrickbridges2611 Actually back then (being the economically backwards, not too industrialized Ottoman Empire) there weren't really oil pumps in the Middle East if any at that time.
Another fact, this one not a coup: during WW2, both the British (their empire too?) worked together to make the Nuclear Bomb. You might guess what happened next. The U.S. ripped Britain off and claimed the thing for themselves, and that's how Britain ended up as the third country to officially get nukes.
Stories always matter more than truth.
I'm glad Johnny overviewed these, getting the truth that these coups happened is good. However, I think most of us would've happily watched an hour+ long video that at least did each event justice by giving SOME detail and analysis.
Me too
If only could afford to make hour long videos 😢
@@johnnyharris couldn't you just do it for the people who's lives were/are being destroyed by these practices?
Money shouldn't always be the reason bro
@@adambuss654why not support him instead of criticising, and he did several video about some of theses coups as mentioned in the video and some of them are the best on those topic.
@@Voyager150 my point was mainly formed from his comment about his ability to afford it, but I'm sure if he was to write it off as a business loss, it wouldn't be the worst thing...
However, it's given me the idea for a Johnny Harris iceberg for anyone who feels like he should dive deeper into a topic..
Anyways, much love for his efforts, but as I said, money shouldn't always be the reason, bro
Fascinating how much power private companies have in the U.S. while they do everything in their power to not pay the taxes that funded the means for them to gain more profits.
@@patrickmorgan4006that just makes you a part of the problem. There's no point sugar coating it.
@@patrickmorgan4006 you don't seem to understand that your meager shares along with millions of other disorganized market investors are pisswater in the eyes of international investment management corporations like Blackrock, who more than likely already owns a double-digit percentage of the companies you speak of. And if they don't own them yet, there's a chance they don't think the companies you've invested in are big enough to compete, or generates enough risk or profit to warrant that move. So good luck with your retirement, bucko.
It is preposterous to believe that the people’s will is represented through votes that one way or the other end up enabling the government that serves those corporations instead of its enabling voters.
@@mggzaz Fair enough if you invest your money, as the saying goes: "no eathicael consumption under cap...", but to so blaaetaeantly deafeand eampeire for the saaeke of your reatireament fund? No, when we are saying yoayu are the preaobleam we do not mean yoau are wroaeng for investing your money, yoaeu araee the praeoblaeaem because you veaneearate this coaetrraeupt system that deaestroys so many leaives.
Then you make the argument: "living in the forest with no...", I mean that's just a laaejzy. Labor creates all of these services, giant coArpoarations siphoning waeealth from workers and 3rd world countries are not essential to the system, they are peaaraeasites of the system.
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The US is just another puppet state for the rich
This list is at least 5 if not 10 times longer.
UK also plays big role. The families are intertwined of both countries that is why English is spoken in US, not German.
Goes back more than a 100 years
The removal of Lumumbua really hurts for me, as a Black American. I can only imagine how the Congo, or even the entire continent of Africa would be if it hadn’t been for foreign intervention. He could’ve truly changed the trajectory
Facts
Now the US and its western allies are demonizing China's BRI project which will probably be the last chance for Africa to really make changes and get rid of everlasting poverty
Did not mention either than the United Nations General Secretary aircarft was shutdown during his negotiation in Congo....there is not a single act,,,not one that as a terrorist act has not been done or enacted by the USA imperialism in the last week of our times...
Lies again? Bang Bros Busy Body
Why does it hurt you just because you're black? Being black doesn't make you Congolese?
USA IN MOVIES : protect democracy and good guy
USA IN REAL LIFE : kills democracy and bad guy