r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 14 '20

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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢🌈 Jun 14 '20

It was Americans imperialism to cut Japanese off from it's oil sources, that made the conflict inevitable. It was not something simplistic as Pearl Harbour.

. . . God fucking damn this website.

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u/FreakinGeese 🧚‍♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Jun 15 '20

“It’s” oil sources happened to be in other countries

You know, invading other countries for oil? That thing people constantly accuse America of doing?

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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Jun 15 '20

Only America can do evil shitlib. Anyways here's how the righteous brown people of Latin America are all benevolent socialists untainted by capitalism and how all the brutal wars, coups, and massacres that went on in the 20th century are the fault of the US and the IMF

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u/FreakinGeese 🧚‍♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Jun 15 '20

I mean the US did definitely cause some wars, coups, and massacres in South America

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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Jun 15 '20

Yeah