Re:Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @03:01AM
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> Did Europe intervene in the American Civil War
No.
> or in any of the multitude of conflicts in the Americas
Yes, particular one that overlapped the American Civil War in time and neighbored it geographically. [1] Perhaps less in the Americas then elsewhere (particularly when the US wasn't tied up in its own civil war) due to the US's proclamation of regional hegemony (the Monroe Doctrine) and desire not get into a fight over that.
No.
> or in any of the multitude of conflicts in the Americas
Yes, particular one that overlapped the American Civil War in time and neighbored it geographically. [1] Perhaps less in the Americas then elsewhere (particularly when the US wasn't tied up in its own civil war) due to the US's proclamation of regional hegemony (the Monroe Doctrine) and desire not get into a fight over that.
> East Asia
Again, yes, quite regularly.
> or Africa over the past 200 years
There, too.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_intervention_in_Mexico