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[ekianjo]

Did you kind of forget that Russia pretty much controlled half of Europe not too long ago, and sent tanks to fight citizens when it was needed to maintain "order".

Countries under US rule never faced such severe repression.

[astura → ekianjo]

I understand what you're saying, but you're not quite accurate, there was the Philippine–American War.

[rmc → ekianjo]

Plenty of that happened in US backed, and funded, regimes in Central and South America.

[pofilat → ekianjo]

That's because the US already took over and genocided the interesting parts of its continent (+ Hawaii), and used covert operations to install friendly dictators across the hemisphere when it needed to maintain "democracy".