The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

by Chapo Trap House

But just how did America grow from a small-time, mom-and-pop plantation into a gigantic, ruthlessly efficient multinational? After some initial growing pains, the United States debuted some innovative imperial pilot programs like Cuba and Hawaii in the late nineteenth century. But it wasn’t until after World War II that we truly inherited Great Britain’s mantle as the international point man for capital. America would soon end up invading/sabotaging/destroying literally most of the countries in the world in pursuit of maximum synergy.

- is this an attempt to draw parallels to what has been considered communist(enemy) nations ? - is this an attempt to awaken die hard patriot Americans to the realization that their own oppression (and controversially the lack of oppression) is no different than that of their enemies ?

Syngman Rhee

ordered thousands of extrajudicial killings

Korea set the standard: we’ll do anything on behalf of anyone, especially on behalf of ourselves; that’s the American promise. So straight out of the gate, the Cold War was emphatically not about democracy versus totalitarianism. In Korea and in every subsequent proxy war, it was about capitalism versus threat to capitalism.

A subliminally suggestive notion that American values stem from the influences of foreign nations. - is this an attempt to subvert accountability for America? - is this a suggestion that America was at one time innocent and perhaps capable of becoming innocent once more if only it were to shed its learnt behaviours ?