/his/tory misconceptions you hate

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda.

The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere unduly with the domination of the official agenda.

Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

>>3396486
and?

>>3396486
The Monroe Doctrine was a statement of intent, not an ironclad policy. Yes there were numerous 'breaches' of the Doctrine that America was either or both unable or unwilling to address, but that doesn't make the Monroe Doctrine worthless. It clarified America's foreign policy position.

Non-Colonization by European powers on the free parts of the American Continent.
The Non-Interference principle that America sought not to interfere in European Affairs, but by the same token would interpret attempts by Europeans to interfere in the free and independent parts of the American Continent as 'dangerous to our peace and safety'.

Which isn't the same as saying "We will stop every attempt to do so" or even saying that America could. But that doesn't mean it was entirely a barren gesture it was the platform from which the American state department would operate.

>>3396486
>Latin American States had to fend off for themselves against European invasions numerous times (French intervention in Mexico

If you had actually studied the French Intervention in Mexico, you'd know that the Mexicans got BTFO hard and that the French basically occupied the entire country until the US, upon finishing their Civil War, put some diplomatical pressure on France to make them leave

In no way Mexico militarily defeated France
Americans made the French leave when they controlled 90% of Mexico and werent threatened in any way by the few Mexican rebels left remaining in the far north

>>3396486
>the axis were the bad guys in wwii

I never knew the Phillipines, Guam and Hawai'i were located in the Caribbean. Thanks, OP.

>>3396486
As someone who mostly studies military history:

>Any time logistics is invoked without understanding what logistics actually is or how logistical limits affect the projection of force.

>Colossal focus on equipment used to wage war and ignoring organizational aspects and doctrine.

>>3396887
Everything you mentioned was more than half a century after the Monroe Doctrine was conceived.

>>3396932
When in reality:
>USA was unable to project power beyond the Caribbean until WW2

>>3396486
Britain got its caribbean holdings (like Belize) from Spain and colonised the Falklands what are you on about?