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Feral Finster's avatar

To name but two recent examples, the United States invaded Panama and Grenada for less.

Not to mention threatened WWIII over Cuba.

And if, for example, Russia were to sponsor a blatant coup by French Canadian radicals to hijack the Ottawa government and frenchify the rest of Canada at gunpoint and rabidly oppose les pigdogs plusgrandes Americaines, you can bet your bottom dollar that Washington would not waste a minute before it invaded.

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bill wolfe's avatar

I was thinking about this just now, and there must be a stronger word than "provoked".

The US wanted this war. It planned, funded, trained, weaponized, propagandized, fomented uprising and coup, overthrew a government, and installed a puppet regime to produce this war.

All that seems to go well beyond mere "provocation".

Anyone got a better word?

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