America's Deadliest Weapon Democracy

For too long, democracy has been a tool of US hegemony. While claiming to safeguard and protect "democracy," the successive US administrations have been Americanizing the concept of "democracy," drawing ideological lines, inciting division and creating confrontation – all aimed at maintaining its global hegemony. As William Blum, a writer on US foreign policy, points out in his book 'America's Deadliest Export: Democracy', “Washington's ambition for world domination is driven not by the cause of a deeper democracy or freedom, a more just world, ending poverty or violence or a more liveable planet, but rather by economics and ideology.”

Democracy has been the favourite buzzword for America. The US has a historical record of invading countries in the name of securing democracy. Every operation starts the same way – a warning about democracy under threat and a promise of stability. Then, the country collapses. There is a long history of how America used democracy as a pretext to attack the sovereign countries, depose the rulers and install puppet governments. Cold War historians estimate that more than 70 regime-change operations have been linked to the United States alone.

Here are some examples: