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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 90 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (15 children)

I was feeling an itch to quantify this list and look at the impact of recent elections as well. Here’s the tallies as I found them from the source-

USA- 58 interventions, 3 since 2000

Soviet Union/Russia- 38 interventions, 9 since 2000

China- 20 interventions, 18 since 2000

Saudi Arabia- 4 interventions, 3 since 2000

Iran- 4 interventions, 3 since 2000

Israel- 3 interventions, all post-2000

India- 3 interventions, 2 since 2000

France- 3 interventions, 2 since 2000

There’s a smattering of others with 1-3 interventions but these were the main ones.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

The US' glory days are clearly in the past 😔

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

the US switched to sanctions and is now sanctioning like 30% of the world. For instance, afaik, the trump sanctions on venezuela started the current uptick of venezuelan refugees

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The refugees as you call them have been steady since 2013, way before the sanctions to 7 specific individuals, but just in time for socialism to fail due to lack of money

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

the reality is there was a big uptick in border crossings and refugees about a year after the 2017 sanctions blocking oil sales that created a debt crisis and its only gone up since then

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