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Is that ww2 or Korea era edited propaganda?
It’s not like it matters really, Americas role in both wars was to take the reins of fascism instead of oppose it…
In WW2? What?
Operation Paperclip and the original NATO convention were focused on technological and territorial control of the Atlantic seaboards and the Eastern Pacific. You also had US support for Fascist Spain in the run up to the war and endorsement of the theocratic government in Saudi Arabia.
Following the end of hostilities in 1945, much of the original German command structure was reintegrated into post-war western bureaucracy. This included NATO high command including former Nazi officers and the Allen Dulles Era CIA working closely with German ex-pats across Latin America, West Africa, and the Middle East.
The US turned to post-war fascist organizations as part of Operation Gladio, primarily in Italy and Greece, as well as during the various coups from Guatemala to Chile from the 50s into the late 90s. The Apartheid Regime of South Africa was also a US backed fascist network, responsible for arming many of the neighboring juntas Angola, Congo, and Kenya, among others. The web of ex-Fascist military officers that ran through all these Atlantic Coast combat zones runs thick.
Phew! Good thing it was only the Big Bad Capitalists doing that, am I right
The literal opposite of the truth. But I guess the guilt of having MLs backstab the leftist opposition so Fascist Spain could win hurts your point, huh?
America, France and the uk embargoed arms sales to republican loyalists. The famous Abraham Lincoln brigade was volunteers, not the american government.