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Message started by Laugh till you cry on Feb 23rd, 2022 at 1:46pm

Title: Little green men ... remember US v Cuba
Post by Laugh till you cry on Feb 23rd, 2022 at 1:46pm
Little green men be buggered ... remember the US Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba with paramilitary forces

The USA was the first to implement "little green men" in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

Uncle Sam is a giant. A giant hypocrite.

Let us not forget the CIA coup against the Australian Government of Gough Whitlam.

Let us not forget the US invasion of the Philippines:

"Why did the US go to war with the Philippines?

Americans who advocated annexation evinced a variety of motivations: desire for commercial opportunities in Asia, concern that the Filipinos were incapable of self-rule, and fear that if the United States did not take control of the islands, another power (such as Germany or Japan) might do so."

The following is a list of US interventions in foreign countries:

"Covert United States involvement in regime change, 20th century
1948–1960s Italy
1949 Syrian coup d'état
1949–1953 Albania
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
1956–57 Syria crisis
1957–58 Indonesian rebellion
1959–2000 assassination attempts on Fidel Castro
1959 Cambodia, Bangkok Plot
1960 Congo coup d'état
1961 Cuba, Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961 Cuba, Operation Mongoose
1961 Dominican Republic
1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état
1964 Brazilian coup d'état
1965–66 Indonesia, Transition to the New Order
1966 Ghanaian coup d'état
1971 Bolivian coup d'état
1970–73 Chile
1976 Argentine coup d'état
1979 Salvadoran coup d'état
1979–89 Afghanistan, Operation Cyclone
1980–92 Angola, UNITA
1981–87 Nicaragua, Contras
1982 Chad
1996 Iraq coup attempt
21st century
2012–17 Syria, Timber Sycamore"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

Bay of Pigs Invasion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: invasión de bahía de Cochinos; sometimes called invasión de playa Girón or batalla de Girón, after the Playa Girón) was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. Covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government, the operation took place at the height of the Cold War, and its failure led to major shifts in international relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

In 1952, American ally General Fulgencio Batista led a coup against President Carlos Prío and forced Prío into exile in Miami, Florida. Prío's exile inspired the creation of the 26th of July Movement against Batista by Castro. The movement successfully completed the Cuban Revolution in December 1958. Castro nationalized American businesses—including banks, oil refineries, and sugar and coffee plantations—then severed Cuba's formerly close relations with the United States and reached out to its Cold War rival, the Soviet Union. In response, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower allocated $13.1 million to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in March 1960, for use against Castro. With the aid of Cuban counter-revolutionaries, the CIA proceeded to organize an invasion operation.

After Castro's victory, Cuban exiles who had traveled to the U.S. had formed the counter-revolutionary military unit Brigade 2506. The brigade fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), and its purpose was to overthrow Castro's government. The CIA funded the brigade, which also included some U.S. military[9] personnel, and trained the unit in Guatemala.

Over 1,400 paramilitaries, divided into five infantry battalions and one paratrooper battalion, assembled and launched from Guatemala and Nicaragua by boat on 17 April 1961. Two days earlier, eight CIA-supplied B-26 bombers had attacked Cuban airfields and then returned to the U.S. On the night of 17 April, the main invasion force landed on the beach at Playa Girón in the Bay of Pigs, where it overwhelmed a local revolutionary militia. Initially, José Ramón Fernández led the Cuban Army counter-offensive; later, Castro took personal control. As the invaders lost the strategic initiative, the international community found out about the invasion, and U.S. President John F. Kennedy decided to withhold further air support.[10] The plan devised during Eisenhower's presidency had required involvement of both air and naval forces. Without air support, the invasion was being conducted with fewer forces than the CIA had deemed necessary. The invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias – FAR) and the invaders surrendered on 20 April. Most of the invading counter-revolutionary troops were publicly interrogated and put into Cuban prisons.

The invasion was a U.S. foreign policy failure. The invasion's defeat solidified Castro's role as a national hero and widened the political division between the two formerly-allied countries. It also pushed Cuba closer to the Soviet Union, setting the stage for the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. ...

Title: Re: Little green men ... remember US v Cuba
Post by Ye Grappler on Feb 23rd, 2022 at 1:55pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeV0gQ5GIUk

Title: Re: Little green men ... remember US v Cuba
Post by issuevoter on Feb 23rd, 2022 at 3:28pm
Remember? You don't."

Title: Re: Little green men ... remember US v Cuba
Post by Laugh till you cry on Feb 23rd, 2022 at 6:38pm

issuevoter wrote on Feb 23rd, 2022 at 3:28pm:
Remember? You don't."


Thankfully, TissueVoter had not been spawned at that time.

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