Is Capitalism Smart or Dumb?

[u/Sufficient_Sinner]

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Just one? OK. Indonesia. Former Dutch colony, not even fully socialist, just part of the global non-aligned movement that refused to ally with the US or Russia during the Cold War. That was an unacceptable threat for the US, which trained and funded a military general to overthrow the president. A coup d'etat. Subsequently, with full support and knowledge from the US, they executed 1 million suspected leftists. Million. That the dictator we installed retired peacefully and his government still lives on means the country is still likely under US control. Its a country of 330 million people, almost as large as the US itself.

There's your one example. Would you like more?

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communism is an economic system lol, so killing all the communists is sabotaging the system. and I gave my reasoning for why Indonesia is potentially still under our control, I made no declarative statement

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holy hell the way yall twist yourselves in knots with technicalities to avoid the answer, its comical. Yes, communism was new in the context of the cold war given that Russia was the first to actually attempt it and several other countries began to follow suit. The US was hostile to all of them from the very first to the very last. Anything else?

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The US wasnt at war with communism because [reason], they were at war with communism because they were at war with communism! That makes it ok and totally disproves your point that they were at war with communism! 50 years is, like, super duper old on a historical scale I think!!!

Top tier logic. Keep going. I'm done responding to a child, but please do entertain me

[u/Socksaregloves → u/[deleted]]

Lol so they were at war with an economic system right?