Worse than the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
>>18513642It was the sha and iranian army that couped him.
>>18513642Nixon’s trip to China and Bill Clinton’s NAFTA are far more serious mistakes.
>>18513684Reagan started work on NAFTA because he thought relocating jobs to Mexico would stop them coming America
>>18513733*coming to
>>18513642No, that would be not backing Britain, France & Israel at Suez in 1956. Eisenhower himself recognised that he had been duped.
>>18513642I thought the coup was literally cause of one rogue CIA glowie that got too big for his britches.Kermit Roosevelt or whatever his name was.
>>18513683The CIA already admitted to it a few years ago (as if there was any question). This doesn't work anymore.>>18513740No he didn't. And even if he did, there's no current crisis with Egypt or the Suez.>>18513764It had full support and backing of the Eisenhower administration
>>18513684>NOOOOO YOURE JUST SUPPOSED TO LET THE SOVIET UNION NUKE CHINA AND START WWIIIkys tanktroon
>>18513683Yep, Mosaddegh was a retard who fucked over the economy and then got arrested after he tried to dissolve the parliament and rig elections to turn himself into a dictator. CIA “involvement” was just bribing some of Mosaddegh’s goons and funding protests after he started turning everyone against him. The meme that the CIA somehow caused the entire thing singlehandedly is Reddit pop history that online leftists adopted for their narrative.
>>18513805The CIA? You mean the same CIA who has stated that they don’t create coup plots out of thin air but instead back ones already being plotted which they think are most likely to succeed anyways?
The CIA are incompetent pencil pushers and anybody who seriously believes they're capable of orchestrating a coup instead of just arming and supporting one that already exists is 100% brown.
>>18513867This. If the CIA was as powerful as people claim, then their hundreds of attempts to assassinate Castro wouldn’t have failed.
>>18513817>commies nuking commies is bad
>>18513910Nixon recognized that the world needed China to open up, much like commodore perry and the Japanese It’s not his fault that his predecessors somewhat bungled chinas integration
>>18513733Naw, he just thought correctly that it would help in breaking down the unions.
>>18514628it was both and also they thought cheap labor in Mexico would help in global competition or some shit
>>18513930>>18513684Every post-2010s Conservative trying to re-write history and say opening-up to and allying with China was a bad call needs to stop and think. In the event of the Cold War going hot, would you rather 1 million screaming Chinamen aimed at you and your friends? Or 1 million screaming Chinamen pointed towards your enemy? There is one correct answer- that's why Nixon went to China.What really went wrong was that the Western World, drunk of End of History-ianism and their own Victory, was arrogant enough to believe that getting rich would be enough to make Russia, the Stans, China etc etc "more like us." Personally, I think it's all a bit of Kool-Aid to make America feel better about supporting the Pinochet, Chiangs and the Parks of the world.
>>18513835it's not "reddit pop history", I was reading it argued on third world traveler before reddit even existed
