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Re:Thailand finds 14.8M tonnes of lithium by astrange on Friday January 19, 2024 @06:18PM (#39062742)
> The US/CIA has a long history of inciting coups, rigging elections, and funding far right terror organizations across Latin America for matters similar or lesser than this [1].

More recently we've been supporting leftist elected candidates against right-wing coups.

We don't care Bolivia has lithium. We get lithium from Australia.

Third worldist leftists have many dumb ideas, but among them is the idea that wars are for resources or that we're exploiting third world countries by taking their resources. It's almost the opposite - they are poor because we aren't trading with them.

Re:Thailand finds 14.8M tonnes of lithium by NERD_ALERT on Saturday January 20, 2024 @04:43AM (#39065995)
Which left wing governments has the US defended against right wing coups?
Re:Thailand finds 14.8M tonnes of lithium by astrange on Saturday January 20, 2024 @06:36AM (#39066587)
Brazil and Guatemala in 2023.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/12/bernardo-are...

And Guyana against invasion by Venezuela.