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"American interests", an euphemism used to this day to refer to whatever's most profitable for american capitalists and industrialists. It can be found in actual government documents released today. The context almost always consists of some country not making life easy for some american "stakeholder". Makes me cringe every time I read those words.

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You should read “The Fish that Ate the Whale“ by Richard Cohen. The American government did insane things in Central and South America for/on behalf of the banana industry.

Alternatively there's also "I Was a Gangster for Capitalism" by Smedley Butler, who was actually in Haiti.

The coup in Bolivia in 2019 was also for American, and more broadly, transnational corporate, interests, primarily related to privatizing publicly-owned natural resources like lithium. Elon Musk literally said "We will coup whoever we want" when asked about it.

See also the efforts for years now that US govt officials have been pushing for the "recognition" of the "interim government" of Venezuela, who sits on large publicly-owned oil reserves.

Make sure that after Wall Street hijacks your government and uses your taxes and lives to terrorize some poor country you've barely heard of, for the benefit of bankers and capitalists you haven't heard of at all, that you, personally, feel guilty about it.

That is the most crucial part, because you will have to repent and atone for those deeds, never them.

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