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On July 13, Bolton, the national security adviser of former US President Trump, blurted out in an interview with the famous CNN reporter Tapper, admitting that during his tenure, the United States had planned a coup aimed at subverting the political power of other countries.
I said "blurt out" because Bolton’s "recognition" was largely trapped by Tapper: he was angered by the syllogism that "the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2020 was a coup", "Trump supported the attack on the Capitol" and "Trump supported the coup", and tried to prove that "what Trump supported was not a coup" and "a real coup" in his view.
In 2020, Bolton’s memoir "The Room that Happened" published after he stepped down described his "attempt" to support the Venezuelan opposition figure Guaido to subvert the country’s current President Maduro during his tenure, but refused to admit that it was a "coup". This time, under the guidance of an experienced reporter, he frankly admitted that "it was a coup", and he was confident and unrepentant, with the boldness of "the only mistake was failure". Not only that, it is not hard to hear from Bolton’s words that the coup planned by the United States, which he participated in or knew, aimed at subverting other governments, was far more than Venezuela.
To some extent, Bolton, who is still loyal to Trump, was fired in advance because of his thoughtlessness and "rampage". Many of his colleagues and former colleagues have been sweating and worried that he would make a slip of the tongue on this sensitive issue. Seaver, a former secret service inspector of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), publicly begged Bolton, who had not left office at that time, on Twitter to "be kind and say that the United States will never plan a coup in other countries again." Diamond of the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, however, swore after Bolton’s "gaffes" that "it won’t hurt our efforts to promote and support democracy" and "we are notorious enough for subverting foreign governments".
However, as pointed out by many insiders, such as Joe Gill, a writer of Eye of the Middle East and a senior left-wing journalist, the United States has been involved in coups and regime change interventions in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe for a long time, "not just curiosity during the Cold War", and Bolton’s so-called "bad rules" are nothing more than publicly telling what the United States has been doing.
Former Bolivian President Morales was overthrown by a military coup in 2019. He was indignant and accused the United States of acting as a "behind-the-scenes hand" and manipulating and subverting this unpleasant Latin American left-wing regime. In fact, in Latin America, the "backyard of the United States", the United States has planned countless successful or attempted coups, the most famous of which is the "9.11" military coup in Chile in 1973. The American military intelligence department instigated and supported Pinochet to launch a coup, overthrew and killed the elected left-wing president Allende, and established a military dictatorship for 17 years.
The United States not only instigated a coup to subvert hostile foreign governments, but also those foreign governments that were obviously pro-American but fell out of favor could not escape their hands: Wu Tingyan, the former president of South Vietnam, who had been following the United States, was overthrown by the American government eager to distance himself from the relationship because of his declining public relations image, and then pushed Ruan Wenshao and Yang Wenming to launch an "11.1" coup in 1963, killing Wu Tingyan’s family and replacing them.
Because it is more labor-saving to "change horses" through coups, in some areas, the United States even "becomes accustomed to nature". For example, since the independence of Haiti in 1804, there has been a coup every three years on average, and nine times out of ten of them are related to the United States.
Diamond was in a hurry to swear because Bolton’s "slip of the tongue" tarnished the image of the United States, but as observers ridiculed, the researcher himself was one of the "peach blossoms". The former intelligence official not only participated in the subversion of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, but also created a "I am Ukrainian" video that was considered to play a key role in the 2014 coup in Ukraine through the National Endowment for Democracy with the subsidy of the US State Department, and made it widely circulated. The National Foundation for Democracy in the United States has such amazing energy in participating in the planning of subversive activities against other governments. No wonder it was ridiculed by the British media "Morning Star" as "the foundation for subversion of foreign regimes".
Of course, whether Bolton or the Foundation for Subversion of Foreign Regimes is not a full-time military intelligence agency in the final analysis, according to Tapper’s irony, it is "unprofessional". More "professional subversive activities" are run by professional institutions such as the CIA, and often far exceed the scale of "coups". For example, on April 17-19, 1961, the "Bay of Pigs Incident" aimed at overthrowing the Castro regime in Cuba, the CIA not only trained and dispatched thousands of mercenaries armed to the teeth, but also sent American warships and military aircraft with false nationality marks to battle shirtless. Due to the stubborn resistance of Cuban soldiers and civilians, the largest subversive activities abroad in the history of CIA ended in fiasco, and the image of the United States as a "subversive of foreign regimes" spread far and wide. Where does Bolton need to admit it?
Even many of today’s American territories were originally acquired through coups or other subversive means, such as subverting the originally independent kingdom of Hawaii by manipulating coups, fostering a pro-American "Republic", and then letting this "Republic" request to join the United States; In California and Texas, which originally belonged to Mexico, American immigrants and cowboys simply crossed the border to "make independence". The former also made a joke that just after "independence", they learned that the US federal government could not wait to launch a war of aggression directly, and rushed to cancel "independence" and quickly joined the United States.
If the coup or other conspiracy is not strong enough, the United States will use more effective means — — War. In order to clean up the "disobedient" Grenada government, in 1983, the United States rallied seven small Caribbean countries to launch an "emergency rampage" and overthrew the government with its troops. This action was condemned by more than 100 member States at the United Nations General Assembly, and the United States only maintained its face by veto power; In order to maintain hegemony in the Panama Canal Zone, the United States launched the "Action of the Teacher of Justice" in 1989 in the name of "anti-drug", dispatched military forces including stealth fighters, forced noriega, the legitimate leader of Panama, out of the Vatican Embassy where he had taken refuge, and arrested the United States for trial, sentencing and imprisonment. Such overbearing behavior was even dissatisfied with the new regime that was later fostered, and finally insisted on recovering the management right of the Canal Zone.
Of course, the coup and subversion in the United States are by no means "for democracy": Allende of Chile was an elected president, but was overthrown by Pinochet, who was recognized as autocratic but obeyed the United States. The United States has only one subversive purpose — — Replacing "disobedient" or "no longer obedient" or even "unwilling" regimes with regimes that obey themselves, such as Panamanian President noriega, who was brought back for trial by the United States, was not sent to power by the CIA at the beginning? Didn’t he have a "bad record" when he came to power? George H.W. Bush was the head of American covert operations when noriega participated in several coups and was also the president of the United States when he sent troops to overthrow noriega. He once told the truth: noriega was "our villain" at that time, but in 1989 he became a "villain who didn’t listen to us", that’s all.
As Jorge said, Bolton’s "slip of the tongue" did not reveal anything new about the United States. He just reminded the world frankly again that "the subversive actions and desires of the United States have never disappeared." (Editor: Hua Zhang An Ran Yuxin)
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