Since 1950, no country has matched the U.S. in global military reach or frequency of intervention.
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Since 1950, no country has matched the U.S. in global military reach or frequency of intervention. From covert coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) to long wars in Vietnam and Iraq, backing regime change from Chile to Nicaragua, and post-9/11 campaigns across the Middle East, Washington has repeatedly projected force without broad international authorization.
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Image: Project 2025 bound publication. Source: https://archive.org/details/2025-mandate-for-leadership-full_20240712#iran #IranWar #history #histodons #blackmastodon
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Since 1950, no country has matched the U.S. in global military reach or frequency of intervention. From covert coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) to long wars in Vietnam and Iraq, backing regime change from Chile to Nicaragua, and post-9/11 campaigns across the Middle East, Washington has repeatedly projected force without broad international authorization.
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Image: Project 2025 bound publication. Source: https://archive.org/details/2025-mandate-for-leadership-full_20240712#iran #IranWar #history #histodons #blackmastodon
That scale of the U.S.' coercive power—persistent, far-flung, and often unilateral—reads in global politics less like great-power diplomacy than like a gangster state’s exercise of muscle and impunity, setting the rules while expecting others to pay the price.
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Resources
Koch, Michael T., and Patricia L. Sullivan. Military Intervention by Powerful States, 1945–2003. 2006. PDF file. ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Koch-5/publication/255588345_Military_Intervention_by_Powerful_States_1945–2003
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That scale of the U.S.' coercive power—persistent, far-flung, and often unilateral—reads in global politics less like great-power diplomacy than like a gangster state’s exercise of muscle and impunity, setting the rules while expecting others to pay the price.
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Resources
Koch, Michael T., and Patricia L. Sullivan. Military Intervention by Powerful States, 1945–2003. 2006. PDF file. ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Koch-5/publication/255588345_Military_Intervention_by_Powerful_States_1945–2003
More Resources
Knox, Richard H., Paul Dans, and Steven Groves, eds. Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (Washington, DC: The Heritage Foundation, 2025). https://archive.org/details/2025-mandate-for-leadership-full_20240712
PBS. “A Chronology of U.S. Military Interventions.” Frontline. Accessed March 3, 2026. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/military/etc/cron.html
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. “America’s Wars.” Accessed March 3, 2026. https://department.va.gov/americas-wars/
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More Resources
Knox, Richard H., Paul Dans, and Steven Groves, eds. Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (Washington, DC: The Heritage Foundation, 2025). https://archive.org/details/2025-mandate-for-leadership-full_20240712
PBS. “A Chronology of U.S. Military Interventions.” Frontline. Accessed March 3, 2026. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/military/etc/cron.html
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. “America’s Wars.” Accessed March 3, 2026. https://department.va.gov/americas-wars/
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Still More Resources
“U.S. Launched 251 Military Interventions Since 1991 and 469 Since 1798.” MR Online, September 16, 2022. https://mronline.org/2022/09/16/u-s-launched-251-military-interventions-since-1991-and-469-since-1798/
“Foreign Interventions by the United States.” Wikipedia. Last modified 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_United_States
“Lists of Wars Involving the United States.” Wikipedia. Last modified 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
“United States Involvement in Regime Change.” Wikipedia. Last modified 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
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Since 1950, no country has matched the U.S. in global military reach or frequency of intervention. From covert coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) to long wars in Vietnam and Iraq, backing regime change from Chile to Nicaragua, and post-9/11 campaigns across the Middle East, Washington has repeatedly projected force without broad international authorization.
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Image: Project 2025 bound publication. Source: https://archive.org/details/2025-mandate-for-leadership-full_20240712#iran #IranWar #history #histodons #blackmastodon
@Deglassco Absolutely! Also, there is this feeling that all the "interventions" have less to do with "bringing democracy" (as they often claim) and more with destabilizing whole regions in order to prevent strong alliances between partners: South America and the Middle East come to mind. Cheap oil is a big factor as well, of course.
They are also trying to break up the EU by strengthening right-wing parties.And right now there is only chaos.
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Since 1950, no country has matched the U.S. in global military reach or frequency of intervention. From covert coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) to long wars in Vietnam and Iraq, backing regime change from Chile to Nicaragua, and post-9/11 campaigns across the Middle East, Washington has repeatedly projected force without broad international authorization.
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Image: Project 2025 bound publication. Source: https://archive.org/details/2025-mandate-for-leadership-full_20240712#iran #IranWar #history #histodons #blackmastodon
@Deglassco and the US turned into a biggest bully we've ever seen!
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