Can we have a thread about Banana Republics?

>>2965941
Are there even any left?

My local mall used to have one but it closed down years ago.
Haven't seen any since.

I mostly just go to H&M now.

>>2965941
a lot of the central american ruling classes, i.e. the true banana republics, were g*rmans. really makes you think....

Did my senior paper on Banana Wars. US started out with geopolitical and even moralistic intentions leading up to the Spanish-American War. The Monroe Doctrine was upheld mostly because travelling across the Atlantic. By the time I sucked less with steam ships, American was becoming an economic power house and was eyeing to "liberate Cuba". The splendid lil war was all fine and good until Taft started disregarding the strategy laid out by Alfred Mahan. This is when Central America started going to shit because Taft's use of financial leverage (dollar diplomacy) gave the greenlight for domination of private interest. This exploded under Wilson until FDR put a cap on it because of the Great Depression.

>>2966028
This man appears to be posting from a mobile device with some form of autocorrect, but is correct.

Note that the Cold War led to an expansion of US intervention in Latin America.

>>2965999
>g*rmans

I think we can pin a lot of the displace of American natives on German immigrants/settlers too. Do they ever not ruin everwhere they go?

>>2965941

Speaking of Dole, does the "Republic" of Hawaii count as one? I mean, it was literally Mr.Dole himself who was president and the Native Hawaiians had no say in the matter.

>>2966075
yes

>>2965999
Also many jews, palestinians and lebanese.