{"id":399925,"date":"2021-11-22T09:57:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T09:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=225685"},"modified":"2021-11-22T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T09:57:54","slug":"nearly-3-4-of-the-worlds-dictators-receive-us-weapons-and-military-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/22\/nearly-3-4-of-the-worlds-dictators-receive-us-weapons-and-military-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 3\/4 of the World\u2019s Dictators Receive US Weapons and Military Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US supports nearly 75% of the world\u2019s dictators, autocracies, monarchies, military regimes, etc., with weapons, military training and money. Please remember this the next time someone tells you the US should do X or Y because such and such a nation is bad\u2026 Comparing Freedom House\u2019s list of\u00a0Not Free\u00a0nations* to FY 2020 US overseas  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/22\/nearly-3-4-of-the-worlds-dictators-receive-us-weapons-and-military-assistance\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/22\/nearly-3-4-of-the-worlds-dictators-receive-us-weapons-and-military-assistance\/\">Nearly 3\/4 of the World\u2019s Dictators Receive US Weapons and Military Assistance<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/22\/nearly-3-4-of-the-worlds-dictators-receive-us-weapons-and-military-assistance\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US supports nearly 75% of the world\u2019s dictators, autocracies, monarchies, military regimes, etc., with weapons, military training and money. Please remember this the next time someone tells you the US should do X or Y because such and such a nation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400578,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399925\/revisions\/400578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}