Real title: US interventionism, the Third World, and the USSR

Never stops being relevant, thought new users might enjoy it. Reposting it as the US is yet again considering sending its sons to kill and die to enrich a handful of rich families.

[T]he Third World is not poor. You don’t go to poor countries to make money. There are very few poor countries in this world. Most countries are rich.

[…] Only the people are poor, but there’s billions to be made there, to be carved out, to be taken. There’s been billions for four hundred years. The capitalist European and North American powers have carved it out and taken it.