US Stooges Who Had to Change Up

This is a list of leaders who were assisted by the US and were problematic:

1.Adolph Hitler

Avrill Harriman

2.Ho Chi Minh

Charles Fenn

3.Sadam Hussein

Kim Roosevelt

4.Osama Bin Laden

Michael G. Vickers

5.Manuel Noreiga

George HW Bush

6.Vladmir Putin

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright

7.Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Kim Roosevelt

8.Ngo Dinh Diem

John F. Kennedy

9.Mobutu Sese Seko

Larry Devlin

10.Rafael Trujillo

Major James J. MacLean

11.Juan Bosch

Richard Naradof Goodwin

12.Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Michael G. Vickers

13.Jalaluddin Haqqani

Michael G. Vickers

14.Boris Yeltsin

Warren Christopher

15.Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Ira Kurzban

16.Victoriano Huerta

Henry Lane Wilson

17.Syngman Rhee

Millard Preston Goodfellow

18.Husni al-Za'im

Kim Roosevelt

19.Gamal Abdel Nasser

Kim Roosevelt

20.Ferdinand Marcos

Lyndon Johnson

21.Napoleon Bonaparte

Thomas Jefferson

22.Pol Pot

Michael Eiland

23.Joseph Stalin

Avrill Harriman

24.Whitey Bulgur

John Connolly

25.Jeffrey Epstein

William Barr

26.William O'Neal

Roy Martin Mitchell

 

 

Just a sampling, in no order. Notice the repeating patterns.

Kermit Roosevelt didn’t like his name. Hard to believe now that we support fundamentalists, but before Carter some, such as Roosevelt, thought Socialism the antidote to Communism. Unless they were nationalizing.

Stooge is a subset of chump. Some of them chumped their handlers, at least for a while.

Kennedy signed off on Diem as senator and then discarded him as president, another common pattern.

CIA has a wonderful apologia for supporting Ho Chi Minh at the end or WWII; it doesn’t mention that we were bombing Vietnam into starvation from our bases in China and aircraft carriers at the same time. As so often, in effect if not explicitly in support of the Vietnamese rebellion against the Japanese and French.

Another pattern is recruiting the loyal stooge to the charismatic leader.