High time we told the US to get lost

August 22, 2025

Bravo to Fred Zhang for a brilliant article which is very much to the point.

It is high time we told the US to get lost. This is a nation that parrots itself as the “world’s greatest democracy” but, in reality, does not give a rat’s about democracy and never has.

It didn’t care about it when it put the 3/5ths compromise in its constitution, it didn’t care about it when, along with the UK, it destroyed Iranian democracy in 1953 for oil, or indeed, in 1956 when it egged on the Hungarians for months. They amazingly overthrew their Soviet puppet regime, with the USSR sitting on the border for a week waiting to see what the US would do. They did nothing and let the Hungarian rebels and Nagy slip quietly under the bus.

It then went on to overthrow multiple governments to its south, or support fascists and dictators for oil or bases.

There is an argument that for a period after World War II it was indispensable and anti-imperial but then it became an empire itself. US arrogance is beyond belief now, such as declaring they’ll send a deportee to Australia who has no connection with us.