Reply #94: Then What Are You Talking About, Sir?

[The Magistrate]

Events occur.

People see them.

People say things about what they see.

It was ever thus; nothing has changed but the speed with which, and distance over which, things can be readily communicated.

Your closing portion remains a claim that these things owe somehow to actions of the United States. They do not. The expectations of people in the world have altered somewhat, and people are less inclined to accept a subordinated lot than formerly. It is a harder row to hoe nowadays to maintain an overtly repressive regime.