Current Events > is there a list of every country that had a united states backed coup?

(+) Yeah! (+)

& a timeline if possible

Colonial America, 1776

You should check out William Blum's book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since WW2.
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https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009 *
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *

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a-c-a-b posted...

https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009 *
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *

Jesus

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No official list because officially it never happened

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Jesus

Gotta secure (read: steal) them resources for the mass overconsumption and waste of the imperial core.

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How has the rest of the world not teamed up and kick the US ass? As an American, it's deserved

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MorbidFaithless posted...

How has the rest of the world not teamed up and kick the US ass? As an American, it's deserved

Global hegemony, both in terms of soft power (media) and military might. Look how many military bases we have around the world.

In fact, Id never heard of the Australian coup attempt in the list a-c-a-b linked before and thats one of the cited reasons for it the ousted leader wanted to kick the U.S. military bases out of the country.

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Shablagoo posted...

Gotta secure (read: steal) them resources for the mass overconsumption and waste of the imperial core.

But our billionaires now get to "morally" benefit majorly off all this to play rocket man. So it all works out. There's definitely nothing immoral about turning a blindeye to all the blood spilled that allowed you to get that watch that could feed a thousand families.

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Shablagoo posted...

Global hegemony, both in terms of soft power (media) and military might. Look how many military bases we have around the world.

In fact, Id never heard of the Australian coup attempt in the list a-c-a-b linked before and thats one of the cited reasons for it the ousted leader wanted to kick the U.S. military bases out of the country.

So we're earth's tyrant and everyone accepts it. Sad.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Ukraine 2014 *

How did the US cause the Ukrainian Revolution?

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

France 1965

Also I looked this up and all that happened in 1965 was De Gaulle won and election against a left-wing candidate. Is the list guy arguing that the US was supporting the socialist candidate, because I can't find any info about it.

This list is full of holes.

sabrestorm posted...

No official list because officially it never happened

Declassified CIA documents would disagree.

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tankie topic

MorbidFaithless posted...

How has the rest of the world not teamed up and kick the US ass? As an American, it's deserved

Because most of them have a positive opinion of the US, especially compared to other powers like China.

The extreme self-hatred and nihilism you see from western leftist isn't normal at all, they've just convinced themselves they're a majority by spending their entire lives on the internet.

Background_Guy posted...

Also I looked this up and all that happened in 1965 was De Gaulle won and election against a left-wing candidate. Is the list guy arguing that the US was supporting the socialist candidate, because I can't find any info about it.

This list is full of holes.

It also considers the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo as an example of "overthrowing a government".

Tankies are not to be taken seriously.

Wait that list gets worse the more I read it.

The first gulf war was an example of the US trying to overthrow a government? What?

The invasion of Panama removed a dictator from power so that the candidate who had just won the election could take office.

It also list the 2002 attempted coup in Venezuela even though the US not only refused to take part in that, but warned Chavez of the plot.

It's insane how the far-left is so dependent on misinformation to gain support. The horse shoe theory is real.

Crappy list notwithstanding, the majority of the world's population is better off then they would be under Chinese, or Russian hegemony. Not that it's an excuse, only the truth.

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mustachedmystic posted...

Crappy list notwithstanding, the majority of the world's population is better off then they would be under Chinese, or Russian hegemony. Not that it's an excuse, only the truth.

Is it? What would China do thats so much worse? Not that China isnt awful, mind, but its not like we actually promote democracy.

I recently read Debt: A 5,000 Year History by David Graeber, and he cast U.S. treasury bonds in an interesting light: its basically cash transfers to the U.S. Treasury, and thus something like tribute payments, though of course these bonds theoretically give their holders some power over the U.S. , particularly in large quantities.

The next global hegemon will rule in a climatical dark age, Im afraid.

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ElatedVenusaur posted...

What would China do thats so much worse?

You're beyond parody at this point.

https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/52153

We contribute to the extensive literature on international influences on democratization and democratic breakdowns by conceptualizing hegemonic mechanisms of regime change and assessing them empirically. Our findings are based on a multi-methods approach and highlight the varying importance of hegemonic influences in post-1945 Latin America. We argue that US support for democratization was consistent in the wave of transitions to democracy that began in Latin America in 1978 and that it was decisive in many of these transitions. While past work has attributed responsibility to the US for the waves of democratic breakdowns from 1948 to 1956 and 1964 to 1976, an examination of the 27 breakdowns from 1945 to 2010 gives reason to doubt this interpretation. Future research could use these conceptual and methodological tools to explore the role of other powers in waves of democracy and authoritarianism.

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mustachedmystic posted...

Crappy list notwithstanding, the majority of the world's population is better off then they would be under Chinese, or Russian hegemony. Not that it's an excuse, only the truth.

the majority of the population of countries that have been victims of US imperialism is far worse off than they would have been if the US had just stayed out of their country

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thx for the list

Background_Guy posted...

How did the US cause the Ukrainian Revolution?

https://www.cato.org/commentary/americas-ukraine-hypocrisy

pretty much all of central and south america

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pure_temper posted...

https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/52153

We contribute to the extensive literature on international influences on democratization and democratic breakdowns by conceptualizing hegemonic mechanisms of regime change and assessing them empirically. Our findings are based on a multi-methods approach and highlight the varying importance of hegemonic influences in post-1945 Latin America. We argue that US support for democratization was consistent in the wave of transitions to democracy that began in Latin America in 1978 and that it was decisive in many of these transitions. While past work has attributed responsibility to the US for the waves of democratic breakdowns from 1948 to 1956 and 1964 to 1976, an examination of the 27 breakdowns from 1945 to 2010 gives reason to doubt this interpretation. Future research could use these conceptual and methodological tools to explore the role of other powers in waves of democracy and authoritarianism.

Nothing screams support for democracy like overthrowing democratically elected Governments so American corporations can make money exploiting the resources and people of a country.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

Nothing screams support for democracy like overthrowing democratically elected Governments so American corporations can make money exploiting the resources and people of a country.

obviously "democracy" refers to the ability to participate in one election every four years between a right-wing party and a far-right-wing party who largely implement variations on the same policies

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stuff like dis is y i cant understand how ppl defend imperialism

Damn... that's so disturbing, some of these countries are on the list multiple times, essentially means that the US didn't even like the new government they helped implement.

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ThePusher posted...

thx for the list

https://www.cato.org/commentary/americas-ukraine-hypocrisy

A communist posting a link to a Koch-backed rightwing thinktank is all kinds of hilarious

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is anything in dat article inaccurate tho?

It may not be, I dont have time to read it atm and im certainly not going to defend American imperialism. I just saw Cato and had to laugh

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The U.S. presence in Somalia was to provide security for the UN Humanitarian relief program (UNOSOM). When Somali militias led buy Muhammad Farah Aidid began attacking coalition troops as a threat to their authority (they attacked Pakistanis first), UN coalition forces left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia

UN Security Council Resolution 733 and UN Security Council Resolution 746 led to the creation of UNOSOM I, the first mission to provide humanitarian relief and help restore order in Somalia after the dissolution of its central government. United Nations Security Council Resolution 794 was unanimously passed on 3 December 1992, which approved a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States. Forming the Unified Task Force (UNITAF), the alliance was tasked with assuring security until humanitarian efforts aimed at stabilizing the situation were transferred to the UN.

Landing in 1993, the UN peacekeeping coalition started the two-year United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II) primarily in the south. UNITAF's original mandate was to use "all necessary means" to guarantee the delivery of humanitarian aid in accordance to Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, and is regarded as a success.

Aidid saw UNOSOM II as a threat to his power and in June 1993 his militia attacked Pakistan Army troops, attached to UNOSOM II, (see Somalia (March 1992 to February 1996)) in Mogadishu inflicting over 80 casualties. Fighting escalated until 19 American troops and more than 1,000 civilians and militia were killed in a raid in Mogadishu during October 1993. The UN withdrew Operation United Shield on 3 March 1995, having suffered significant casualties, and with the rule of government still not restored.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

So we're earth's tyrant and everyone accepts it. Sad.

Look we have done fucked up shit and some of it were indeed coups.

But anything from Shab will be fake, exaggerated, lacking context or specifically dropped to prop up China in comparison because he loves shilling for a country committing genocide.

Please look up actual sources instead of relying on that clown.

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ThePusher posted...

stuff like dis is y i cant understand how ppl defend imperialism

Your definition of imperialism is the US intervening in Yugoslavia to stop ethnic cleansing.

ThePusher posted...

stuff like dis is y i cant understand how ppl defend imperialism

Blind Nationalism or vehement opposition to the ideology of opposing powers to the point you think a pot of bad things are justifiable to oppose them.

It's probablt more palatable to most then an Empire as it's ostensibly less oppressive with power less centralized.

Or just being a sociopath/Politician

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Broseph_Stalin posted...

Your definition of imperialism is the US intervening in Yugoslavia to stop ethnic cleansing.

no my definition of imperialism is the us acting like the world police & carrying out countless coups w no accountability

Broseph_Stalin posted...

Your definition of imperialism is the US intervening in Yugoslavia to stop ethnic cleansing.

You can deflect all you want, but the reality is that this country has or violently attempted to strip sovereignty and democracy from the Philippines, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic multiple times, Vietnam, the Congo, Egypt,all of South and Central America several times, Iran, and Indonesia.

That's an immense amount of fuckery that can only be defended by the insistence that America knows best and should be able to enforce our will on others through violence and subterfuge.

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How is directly responding to a list someone else posted deflecting lmao, like I'm talking about the examples they gave.

The US is by far the most benevolent power to ever exist. Posting a bunch of populist misinformation you got from some Kremlin-backed loser on the internet doesn't change that.

Broseph_Stalin posted...

The US is by far the most benevolent power to ever exist.

lmfao

Broseph_Stalin posted...

How is directly responding to a list someone else posted deflecting lmao, like I'm talking about the examples they gave.

The US is by far the most benevolent power to ever exist. Posting a bunch of populist misinformation you got from some Kremlin-backed loser on the internet doesn't change that.

Talking about one example and ignoring all the others that absolutely happened and were horrific is deflecting. How many did we kill, poison, impoverish, displace, or rob of political choice in Southeast Asia in the 50s-70s alone? That's not populist misinformation, that's historical fact.

It doesn't matter if we're the most "benevolent power" by some arbitrary metric. All powers are and have been trash. Including China, the USSR, etc, this isn't about some defense of communism. Being at the top of that trash heap is not something to brag about, it just means you're getting high on your own supply.

The reality is that we've caused unfathomable suffering and changed the course of countless nations for the worse in pursuit of our economic and ideological interests. It's important to recognize that so we can stop doing it.

People like you would have us continue because you're so convinced of our benevolence and that our current ideological framework is the best one and that no one should even think that they can do something different.

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legendary_zell posted...

It doesn't matter if we're the most "benevolent power" by some arbitrary metric. All powers are and have been trash. Including China, the USSR, etc, this isn't about some defense of communism. Being at the top of that trash heap is not something to brag about, it just means you're getting high on your own supply.

The reality is that we've caused unfathomable suffering and changed the course of countless nations for the worse in pursuit of our economic and ideological interests.

The share of the world's population living in democracies has skyrocketed during the Pax Americana. As have incomes, literacy levels and access to health care. All while poverty, hunger and deaths from war decline.

America isn't "less bad", it's good.

Broseph_Stalin posted...

The share of the world's population living in democracies has skyrocketed during the Pax Americana. As have incomes, literacy levels and access to health care. All while poverty, hunger and deaths from war decline.

America isn't "less bad", it's good.

Thanks for going full mask off. I sincerely, genuinely hope you never get close to any form of power because many people will die and you won't lose a second of sleep.

It would just be nice if you had to experience being one of the many eggs broken on the way to the proverbial neoliberal omelette. Instead it'll be some disappeared leftist college student in Colombia. But that's no sweat off your back.


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Broseph_Stalin posted...

Pax Americana

*snort*

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legendary_zell posted...

It would just be nice if you had to experience being one of the many eggs broken on the way to the proverbial neoliberal omelette.

I love how you think I'm supposed to care what you think as you advocate for objectively worse outcomes, as if you have the high ground here.

Shezarr posted...

*snort*

I can't imagine ever getting mad because people are better off today, yet it seems like a daily occurrence for you guys.

When you read about our atrocities throughout the centuries and wonder "how could people of the time have thought this was okay", there's no need to do that.

Because those people are still here. We call them idealogues and you can see one in the flesh by observing people like Broseph.

Advocating for not doing coups, assassinating, and provoking civil wars and letting other countries choose their own destiny is actually advocating for worse outcomes in his mind because only American neolibs know and can provide the best outcomes.

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shouldn't the united states also be on the list
we're so good at coup-ing that we almost coup-ed ourselves

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legendary_zell posted...

only American neolibs know and can provide the best outcomes.

Liberalism is literally the only political movement that has produced good outcomes, yes. You've finally got it.

Sorry but you lose the moral high ground defending objectively worse people.

Liberalism and neoliberalism are not synonymous, fyi

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