It is appalling to see how failing the memory of our neighbors to the south is. When President Biden and his Secretary of State proclaim loud and clear that no state can interfere in the decisions of another, that a nation can choose its alliances as it sees fit, they pay little heed to occasions when their own country has interfered in the affairs of others. Did Washington respect the freedom of Cubans to align themselves with the former USSR? Doesn’t the invasion of Ukraine by the Russians evoke in better organized the episode of the Bay of Pigs? Aren’t the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 and the overthrow of the Guatemalan government the following year violations of the right of nations to govern themselves? And Chile? And Iraq? And what else do I know. Wikipedia lists dozens of American military interventions carried out around the world over the past 150 years.
Putin may be megalomaniac and out of touch with reality, as many observers claim, but if the American president seems more sympathetic, it may simply be because his propaganda is less brutal, more subtle. Can we trust it blindly?
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