The US was propping up puppet govts in Central America and on Islands in the Caribbean, sometimes at the behest of corporations like United fruit way back in the early 1900s. Numerous puppet governments in Vietnam after the CIA assassinated President Diem, Iraq, Afghanistan and likely others. And yet even now we are surprised at how easily our puppets collapse when we abandon them
The US was propping up puppet govts in Central America and on Islands in the Caribbean, sometimes at the behest of corporations like United fruit way back in the early 1900s. Numerous puppet governments in Vietnam after the CIA assassinated President Diem, Iraq, Afghanistan and likely others. And yet even now we are surprised at how easily our puppets collapse when we abandon them