Timeline of US Hegemony

</image> <label>Type</label> <label>Effects</label> <label>Source</label> <label>Cost to buy</label> <label>Cost to sell</label> </infobox>Content Warning: This article contains extensive discussion and description of torture, rape, murder and genocide Note: We acknowledge that occasionally, US Imperialism CAN have benefits (for instance, killing Nazis) and we do not support all groups opposed to US Imperialism. The US is also not behind every event in global politics, they are an empire but not omnipotent. However, we strongly condemn US Imperialism as most of it leads to loss of life and the underdevelopment of countries, condemning hundreds of millions to a life of poverty. A timeline of the actions taken by the United States Government in order to secure greater power and wealth at the expense of people, both its own and abroad. We include authoritarian regimes and dictatorships supported by the US, coups supported by the US, interference in elections, invasions, suppression of rebellions (domestic and abroad), bombing campaigns and support for terrorist or guerilla groups. Actions against piracy and retaliation against states that the declared war on the US are not included on this list, except in situations where the US used it for imperialist gains or lied to their population.

1900s

• 1948: The US begins supporting South Africa during Apartheid, a brutal system of white supremacy and racial segregation that killed around 21,000 people. It also criminalised homosexuality, abortion, sex education
• 1963: (Alleged) The US helps politicians in Canada to take down the prime minister over his refusal to station US nuclear missiles in the country and being too independent in terms of foreign policy.
• 1973: The US organises economic warfare and a military coup in Chile, South America's most stable democracy, in order to take down the elected socialist government that had nationalised the mining sector. The new military dictatorship destroyed the economy, leaving the country deep in poverty and killing between 2,000 and 30,000 people, 27,000 people being tortured and survived) and 200,000 people were forced into exile (mainly to Argentina). In other words, 2.2% of Chile's population (of 10.1 million) had their lives ended or ruined by the dictatorship. Some notable torture and killing methods include:
  • Electrocution of open wounds and the genitals on a person tied up on a metal bed.
  • Arresting entire families if a single member had leftist sympathies, and forcing family members to watch soldiers rape other members of their family, in other situations, families or close friends would have to listen to their beloved being tortured.
  • Forcing prisoners to crawl on the ground and lick the dirt off the floors. If the prisoners complained or even collapsed from exhaustion, they were promptly executed.
  • Forcing prisoners to swim in vats of excrement (shit) and eat and drink it.
  • Forcing prisoners to stay awake for five days while lying down, threatening to kill their children if they didn't.
  • Forcing prisoners to lie down and driving trucks and cars over their arms and legs, crushing their bones.
  • Beating prisoners to the point that they'd either be deaf from being hit on the ears or have broken arms and legs, occasionally, amputation would be used as a torture technique.
  • Pouring water over a cloth that covered prisons' faces and breathing passages, causing individuals to experience a drowning sensation, and a near-death experience and killing many through asphyxiation.
  • Prisoners were hung upside-down with ropes, and they were dropped into a tank of water, headfirst. The water was contaminated (with poisonous chemicals, shit and piss) and filled with debris.
  • Anal rape of prisoners by soldiers while soldiers insulted them to break their spirit.
  • Using dogs to rape prisoners and inserting rats into prisoners anuses and vaginas.
  • Forcing female prisoners to engage in sex with their brothers and fathers at gunpoint.
  • Throwing dissidents from helicopters into the ocean, rivers, lakes or mountains where they would be instantly killed (and spend the last seconds of their live in absolute terror) and their bodies never found. This method of torture is continuously joked about in online right-wing spaces as their 'joking' plan for leftists.
  • Left many victims reported suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, isolation, worthlessness, shame, anxiety and hopelessness.
• 1975: (Alleged) The US helps politicians in Australia to take down the prime minister over his desire to close a US military base violating its contract in Australia and to nationalise Australia's mining sector, it is alleged by one source that the CIA controls most trade unions, banks and political parties in Australia.