Thread by @Itmechr3

1. Every time the US drops a bomb people on here start talking about how many hospitals you could fund with the money which just completely misses the point that America's wealth is a direct product of its military power and always has been going

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2. all the way back to when the first colonists used their armies to take control of abandoned Indigenous farms and drive out the various Indigenous people who were trying to recover from the plague. After that American wealth was fueled by

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3. resource extraction (particularly timber in the north), which again required heavily armed militias to drive out the Indigenous inhabitants so their land could be clear cut. After that Americans started planting cash crops in the south

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4. dependent on slave labor which, you guessed it, requires indescribable military and paramilitary violence to enforce. Even after the Civil War and the banning of non-state slavery the US continued to seize land for farming and to build houses

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5. from everyone from Indigenous people to Mexico. The US landed marines in Haiti to extract debt, colonized the Philippines, invaded China for trade concessions, and knocked off a dozen other governments for mineral rights and control of the

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6. proceeds of agriculture. Meanwhile at home successive workers uprisings from West Virginia to Seattle were put down by the army as it continued its campaign of terror against Black (and as the 19th century came to a close Asian) people and the

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7. remaining Indigenous. In Europe American military power would help win WWI, which the US would use to extract resources from the old colonial empires through loan payments, which the UK and France would in turn impose in Germany. That flow of

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8. wealth (from Europe's colonial possessions to the European countries to the US) would culminate with WWII, where American military power left it essentially in control of the world, with the most developed manufacturing sector in the world and

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9. an absolutely absurd percentage of the world's' total gold reserves. This power allowed them to set the terms of the new financial order, with the world's currencies pegged to the dollar and the US enjoying the incredible economic benefits of

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10. being the world's reserve currency. In order to maintain as much of this status advantage as possible the US overthrew the government of anyone who opposed them in order to maintain access to cheap labor and raw materials. Even American allies

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11. were not immune, when the West German and Japanese economies threatened the American economy in the 80's Reagan used Japan and West Germany's status as American military protectorates to force them to increase the value of their currencies

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12. relative to the dollar, kneecapping their manufacturing sectors and preserving American economic dominance. People who ask why the US spends trillions on wars and don't feed their own people are missing the point of the American state. It

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13. exists to enrich its own bourgeoisie through imperial conquest. The only reason they ever split wealth with anyone else during the 30's through the 80's was that the US was so close to being overthrown that vast swaths of the American

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14. population had to be bought off lest they put American CEOs' heads on pikes. Those concessions were born of desperation and necessity, they in no way reflect the reality of the purpose of the American state. If you want the US to stop bombing

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15. other countries you have to destroy the American state, that's all there is to it.

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