Alright, let’s flip it to make things clearer for you. Just imagine for a second:
Your country elects a president through a democratic process. People vote, things are messy like any country, but it’s your mess to deal with. Then suddenly, a much richer foreign country starts saying, “Hmm, we don’t like this leader. He’s too close to our rivals.” So they secretly fund media outlets and political groups inside your country to destabilize things. They support strikes, create panic about trumpism, even encourage the military to step in.
And guess what? A coup happens. Your president is removed, and a military regime takes over, backed and praised by that foreign country. For the next couple of decades, people in your country are jailed, tortured, or disappear just for disagreeing. The rich get richer, especially companies tied to that foreign country, which now has access to your land, your resources, your industries.
Years later, documents come out confirming that the whole thing was orchestrated. “Yes, we did it,” they say. “It was necessary.”
Now imagine someone from that country tells you: “Well, we pay into the WHO and the UN, so technically we’re helping you. You should be grateful.”
Wouldn’t that sound a little twisted?
Because that's the dynamic you’re defending. And it’s not ancient history. That kind of interference leaves scars for generations. And we’re not talking about hypotheticals, this is lived reality for many of the countries with US backed coups.
Looks unfair? Ok, let me push the thought experiment a little further.
Let’s say a powerful country from the Global South, maybe one led by someone like Nicolás Maduro, or maybe Iran, or even China, decides to intervene in North America.
They find a rising dictator in Canada, someone brutal, but useful. So they back him to the teeth, give him weapons, intelligence, and financial support to take over the country. The guy ends up committing atrocities, but they keep calling him a "stabilizing force" because he's good for business.
Now imagine that, under his regime, Canadian-backed militia groups start crossing the border into the US, burning towns, raping, murdering, and, here’s the key, taking over mineral-rich territories. Over the years, more than 100 armed groups emerge, all fighting for resources, many of them supported directly or indirectly by that same foreign power.
American citizens are displaced, enslaved in mines, or live under constant terror. But the outside world barely notices, because minerals keep flowing.
Then one day, after decades of chaos, the foreign power steps in and says, “Let’s make peace.” They broker a treaty, pat themselves on the back, and as part of the agreement, they now get to legally own one-third of America’s mineral wealth.
And they’re hailed globally for their diplomacy.
You’d lose your mind, right?
You’d be furious, and rightfully so.
Now imagine the country that backed all of this saying you should be grateful because they pay something to a international organization. And that "all countries had some skeletons in their closets, even yours, so you should not be so angry".
But replace “USA” with “Congo,” “Canada” with “Rwanda,” and that’s essentially what’s happened.
And you can always change Canada for Mexico if you prefer, I believe you two hate each other more as countries, don't you? Maybe it can make this experiment a little more real in your mind.
This isn’t anti-American sentiment. This is just calling out a pattern that would be obvious to anyone if the roles were reversed.
You’d be furious if this had happened in your own country, but I get why some of this might not hit you the same, you’ve lived in the US and the UK, so most of the history you know comes from the “winning side” when it comes to shaping world narratives, and those are two of the nations most involved in global atrocities. So honestly, it might be unfair of me to expect you to see it from the perspective of those who’ve always been on the receiving end, this is not in your history books, it's in ours.
