Militarizing Latin America:The Shameful Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine

[AZ Progressive]

1. American Prosperity often is on the backs of other nations

The United States became the most powerful nation of the Americas partly by controlling Latin America and making it our puppet. We control the Middle East to get our oil. We control many countries around the world in order to preserve an access to resources as well as military power. Heck, the South before the civil war was prosperous because of slavery.

Even American Prosperity during the postwar era was because much of the world except us was devastated after WWII (not our fault though). That's basically how we got our superpower or empire status.

It's just like many rich people that get rich on the backs of their workers (by not sharing the wealth with their workers, many times not even wanting to pay a living wage to their workers.)