• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    the US empire is reasserting its control over latin america because of brics and it will work.

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      1 hour ago

      I don’t know that it will. The key weapon the US used against Latin America before was economic warfare. Now that an alternate economic bloc exists, it’s going to be much harder to subjugate Latin America, and the US simply does not have the means to do this through military force.

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        53 minutes ago

        mexico is keeping that alternative economic bloc at arms length to avoid incurring the wrath of the us like venezuela did and the likes of el salvador, columbia, bolivia and peru are welcoming us military intervention like the austrians did for the nazis in 1939.

        argentina is already in the bloc and they’re clawing of every legal avenue to extricate itself and brazil doesn’t have the clout to influence the rest of latin america like mexico or argentina or columbia can.

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          23 minutes ago

          I mean we’ll see what happens, but personally I cannot imagine that the US has the capacity to dominate Latin America right now. It’s also wroth keeping in mind that the US itself is on a brink of an economic collapse at this point.

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            14 minutes ago

            that’s why they’re welcoming american intervention; their economies are tied to the us and the neoliberal gov’ts that the us imposed onto them are reaching out for the us as a bull work to prevent them from losing their grasp entirely.

            if china lets venezuela fall into the us’ hands like the soviet union let cuba go; then brics’ gains in the americas will be reversed and the time frame will fit in before the us declines enough to prevent it.