{"id":9717,"date":"2021-01-18T08:54:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=151238"},"modified":"2021-01-18T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:54:55","slug":"coup-coup-kachoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/coup-coup-kachoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Coup, Coup, Kachoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photograph Source: Tyler Merbler – CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Contrary to the bleatings of rabid Never Trumpers, Democrat drum majors, and neurasthenic pundits, the\u00a0Butthead Circus of camo wanks, Halloweening morons, and feeble-minded Q Anon dead-enders, the bumbling vandalism and imbecile thuggery at the Capitol had no resemblance whatever to an actual coup.<\/p>\n

See Websters, Coup d\u2019Etat: \u201cA sudden, decisive action in politics effecting a change of government illegally or by force\u201d.<\/p>\n

The precise definition, likely unfamiliar to most Americans, is not a subject of confusion to our government.\u00a0 Coups, it can be said, are us.\u00a0 Our government runs them all the time.\u00a0 They are, with unilateral and undeclared war, its favorite \u2018diplomatic\u2019 endeavor.\u00a0 It was late to adopt the tactic but strove to perfect subversion and destruction of regimes beyond what was thought possible.<\/p>\n

In our early days, invasions and occupations were all America required in its own hemisphere, long before we had deemed it necessary to manage the entire world for our Capitalists\u2019 profit. Inspired by British and French examples, it was clear to the U.S. that killing inferior races was fine where profit justified it.\u00a0 As the world then was up for rape and domination, we joined the fest in Central America, the Caribbean and Pacific Islands, while finally completing the casual extermination of our own native peoples.<\/p>\n

After WWI, invasion of nations to steal resources fell somewhat out of favor in the world, which was awkward.\u00a0 If war and murder were out, then Capitalism\u2014a euphemism for our government\u2014had to find an alternative.\u00a0 It gambled that the next best thing to conquest was corruption, which proved to be cost effective besides, always a critical factor to us.\u00a0 You just pull the Marines out of Nicaragua, Haiti, Cuba, and the Philippines, and install a dirty elite to hand you the country for a tiny cut of the gross.\u00a0 It was much cheaper than murdering thousands of people.<\/p>\n

This new kind of soft coup worked well in most places, most of the time.\u00a0 You had to have a slush budget to control press and education but that was peanuts compared to garrisoning combat outfits.\u00a0 Where the program hit the skids was in countries where, against all odds, a small dedicated cadre of courageous idealists somehow defied propaganda and moral pollution and resolved to die rather than whore themselves to the Gringo and his lackeys.<\/p>\n

In Nicaragua, Sandino\u2019s guerrillas fought their pimp United Fruit Co. government and U.S. troops to a standstill.\u00a0 When we couldn\u2019t kill or capture him, we paid to get him betrayed and murdered by the brute, Somoza, of whom Roosevelt famously said, \u201cI know he\u2019s a son of a bitch, but he\u2019s\u00a0our\u00a0son of a bitch\u201d.<\/p>\n

After WWII, hopes for world peace through self-determination of nations ended the era when America could openly rape and loot weak states with no repercussions, even when hidden behind our hired slut elites.\u00a0 They began being seriously menaced by their own people which interfered annoyingly with corporate cash flow.<\/p>\n

England had ripped Iran\u2019s oil off for decades when a proud old aristocrat pol nationalized it and ran the coward Shah out with the dithering Brits, who came whining to the flexing CIA.\u00a0 Ike said go, and in a bollixed farce\u2014the first by those hugely over-rated, ham-handed bunglers\u2014it doled out wheelbarrows of cash, brought Mossadegh down, and set the preening, brutal Shah up as chief whore for the new majority owners, American Oil.<\/p>\n

With ever fiercer demands for national autonomy and an end to U.S. Capitalist piracy, it was felt that, we had to put teeth in the program.\u00a0 The way to get \u201cplausible deniability\u201d, was to train native murderers as \u201csecurity forces\u201d.\u00a0 This was clear when we nearly botched a coup against popular Guatemalan Socialist, Jacobo Arbenz, for lack of a killer unit.\u00a0 Threats of invasion and bribes won the army and he was ousted for our chosen dictator.\u00a0 United Fruit won, and America lost face forever in Guatemala.<\/p>\n

By the 60s it was clear that you didn\u2019t always need a new, dirty government, you could just destabilize some states to create chaos.\u00a0 In independent Congo, we bought the assassination of people\u2019s hero, Patrice Lumumba, left power up for grabs, and hired the sick winner of the bloodbath that followed as our guy.<\/p>\n

It got yet tougher to subvert countries in the 70s but our tactics were improving.\u00a0 When Socialist Salvador Allende won election in Chile and began running it for the people, Kissinger\u2019s CIA buckled down.\u00a0 We cut off essential exports, jammed the banking system, bribed union leaders, jawboned crooked generals, and armed traitors inside.\u00a0 In the end the coup went off well and our \u201cpartners\u201d killed him.\u00a0 We made our deal with General Augusto Pinochet, America\u2019s fave dictator with the Shah for a time, as vicious a psychopath as Heinrich Himmler ever aspired to be.<\/p>\n

That brings us to 50 years ago and rather than belabor the point by listing dozens more of our coups, some bloodier, clumsier, stupider than others, the prosecution rests.\u00a0 What happened at the Capitol was a tantrum of the rabble not remotely resembling an effort to take over the country, QED.\u00a0 Americans are self-absorbed, and much given to exaggeration.\u00a0 And very fearful\u2026<\/p>\n

Well, we have much to be fearful about.\u00a0 But it isn\u2019t a Trumpian coup.\u00a0 And it isn\u2019t Russia or China.\u00a0 Or Iran\u2026\u00a0 Or Communists, or Socialists, or Antifa, or Proud Boys, or BLM, or Q Anon\u2026<\/p>\n

What should fill you with terror, shake your soul, give you night sweats and hurt your heart, is the appalling truth that we are all\u00a0 trapped in a system that cares nothing for its people or the world they inhabit, and that that people, facing looming manmade and natural catastrophe, hasn\u2019t the courage and wisdom to save itself.<\/p>\n

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