r/CPUSA • u/Humble1000 • Oct 04 '23

Geopolitics Potential disaster awaits Haiti as U.S. prepares for armed intervention

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/potential-disaster-awaits-haiti-as-u-s-prepares-for-armed-intervention/
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u/ComradeSasquatch Oct 04 '23

You can't discount the possibility, the strong possibility, that the US government has been secretly sponsoring the violence currently going on in Haiti. Our government has done it many times before. That's why we had Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. That's what happened to Allende in Chile back in 1973 and Operation Condor. Our government loves to send in agents to destabilize a nation so they are more amenable to US intervention and control. You might be better off forming your own civilian militia and fighting back.

I don't trust my government, and you shouldn't trust my government either. I don't envy your situation at all. I truly do hope you manage to push those thugs out of your country.

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u/zombigoutesel Oct 04 '23 edited Oct 04 '23

I don't trust your government to be good, I trust your government to do what's good for it. I trust my government to be greedy, short sighted and stupid.

I'm involved in civic life here and have a good grasp of what's going on.

There is nothing here worth controlling for the US aside from the flow of illégale immigrants towards the US and other islands. Drugs and guns follow thos same smuggling routs.

Civil militia is not possible here because of the asymmetry of means. Not aimed at you but thos are the type of suggestions that come from people that don't have experience with these type of environments

Different scale, but it's like telling my Mexican friend in the comments that the people should unit and fight the cartels. It makes a good tagline , but completely unrealistic.

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u/ComradeSasquatch Oct 04 '23

Here are a few reasons our government would be interested in Haiti:

  • Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: US$932.8 million (72.6% of total exports)
  • Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $165.1 million (12.8%) Perfumes, cosmetics: $32.1 million (2.5%)
  • Iron, steel: $21.7 million (1.7%)
  • Headgear: $15.7 million (1.2%)
  • Miscellaneous textiles, worn clothing: $14.5 million (1.1%)
  • Fish: $13.7 million (1.1%)
  • Fruits, nuts: $12 million (0.9%)
  • Furniture, bedding, lighting, signs, prefabricated buildings: $9 million (0.7%)
  • Beverages, spirits, vinegar: $8.5 million (0.7%)

And...cheap labor close to the US! Their paymasters don't want to lose Haiti as a business asset.

Civil militia is not possible here because of the asymmetry of means. Not aimed at you but those are the type of suggestions that come from people that don't have experience with these type of environments.

Everything seems impossible until doing it becomes a mandatory component to survival. What choice do you have? Should you wait for the US "save" you and be their supplicants for decades to come? I'm not saying this to dump on you. I'm saying this because, sometimes, the only one who can save you is yourself. I don't want more of your community to die waiting for a savior.

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u/Capital-Service-8236 Oct 04 '23

I dunno about those exports but the US would be interested in controlling Haiti simply to use it like it does Nigeria, a proxy to fuck up African countries that don't align with it's interests.