Quote Originally Posted by maladroit
"But if a country tries to keep their resources for themselves or is a little too stingy in giving the West their cut, there's talk of how we need to either put an embargo on them or violently install a democracy."

- or in the case of iran in the 1950's and venezuela in the 2000's, there was US government action to violently overthrow democracies that nationalized their oil industries
Exactly, man! And Cuba in the early 1960s...the big reason for the embargo was that Castro made moves to nationalize the industry in Cuba that had until then been dominated by America. The U.S. had no problem whatsoever with their former puppet, Batista, because he tyrannized his people and let the U.S. dominate their economy. For placing the economy in Cuban hands, Castro was told the U.S. wouldn't buy Cuban sugar anymore. Having been shat on by one superpower, they of course become friends with the other (the U.S.S.R.) and adopt a communist style of government. The Congo in the 1960s is another example. Fuck, the West doesn't have any problem with tyranny whatsoever, they just hate economic localization.
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