Blatantly Interfering in Internal Affairs of Allies, US Becomes Biggest Disrupter of Global Order

A few days ago, during his daily press conference, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador released a letter he had written to U.S. President Joe Biden. The letter pointed out that the United States is suspected of providing financial assistance to nongovernmental organizations and institutions in Mexico that openly oppose the Mexican government. This is gross interference with the Mexican nation. The incident has once again exposed the bullying and domineering face of the United States and its long history of blatantly interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, even planning to subvert the governments of other nations.

The United States Has a Long History of Interference in the Internal Affairs of Other Countries

After World War II, the power of Britain, France, Germany and other old capitalist countries declined. The United States was far from the battlefield, and its industrial economy developed rapidly, laying the foundations for it to establish its hegemony in the capitalist sphere, as well as the wider world. In order to maintain and expand its global interests, the U.S. began to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and provoke conflicts.

In 1959, Fidel Castro led the Cuban people to victory in a revolution and established the only socialist state in the Western Hemisphere. The United States, as the leading capitalist nation, has always looked on the entire Western Hemisphere as its own backyard with the attitude “How can you let someone snore loudly next to your own bed?” The U.S. quickly imposed an economic embargo on Cuba and tried to subvert Castro’s regime by supporting Cuba’s internal opposition. In January 1961, the U.S. announced it was severing diplomatic ties with Cuba. Three months later, in the early morning of April 17, a mercenary army made up of about 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and armed by the CIA landed at the Bay of Pigs in southern Cuba. At the same time, the U.S. military dispatched ships and bombers to support ground operations. However, the invasion and these subversive activities, in which the U.S. was directly involved, fell apart after only 24 hours. For more than 60 years since then, the United States has interfered in the internal affairs of Cuba and attempted to undermine the Cuban regime through various means, including armed intervention, the assassination of leaders, political repression and economic sanctions.

In addition, the United States has been a disgraceful presence in a series of political events, such as the fall of Mohammad Mossadegh’s government in Iran, the overthrow of Jacobo Árbenz's presidency in Guatemala, a military coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Arab Spring, “color revolutions” and the storm around Hong Kong’s legislative amendments. In order to safeguard its own self-interest and pursue “absolute security,” the U.S. government treats international rules and order as though they are nothing and does everything possible to interfere, sabotage and subvert.

Advances in cyber technology have become a weapon for U.S. interference in other countries

To meet its aim of interfering in the internal affairs of other nations and undermining their governments, the United States also makes full use of technological advantages it has gained thanks to the internet. A few days ago, China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and [cybersecurity company] Qihoo 360 jointly released an investigative report revealing the CIA’s longstanding use of cyberattacks against other countries.

According to the report, the CIA has been using technology to launch “color revolutions” around the world, including an unconventional regime change technique known as “swarming,” pushing young people who are on social media to join mobile “flashmob” protests. In addition, a U.S. company with a military background developed Tor, an “onion” routing technology. “The Onion Router” can access the internet but is untraceable. It is available free of charge to anti-government individuals in Iran, Tunisia, Egypt and other countries to help them avoid the scrutiny and the surveillance of local, legitimate governments while organizing anti-government activities.

It’s said that technology is a double-edged sword. While countries around the world are making full use of modern technology to improve the lives and well-being of their people, the United States is doing the opposite. It demonstrates the way that technology can be used unscrupulously to do harm.

The U.S. pursues “interventionism” and doesn’t spare its allies

The United States has long exported “color revolutions” and supported regime change efforts by opposition elements within nations. Often this is under the banner of values such as “democracy” or “freedom,” with the U.S. trying to cover its illegal behavior with a cloak of morality and legality. However Mexico, which has recently suffered severe interference by the United States, has been considered an ally of the U.S. for many years. Mexico is not only an important participant in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade area that the United States has been trying to build, but also a key partner in U.S. efforts to decouple from China and adopt so-called “friend-shoring.”

Bloomberg has reported that President Biden privately urged President Lopez Obrador to formulate new policies to seize the opportunity to boost domestic semiconductor production. On Jan. 10 of this year, the U.S., Mexico and Canada reached an agreement to better coordinate semiconductor manufacturing investment across the American continent. Mexico seems to have become an important partner to the U.S. in the field of chip manufacture, which is something that the United States regards as a major national security issue. What is the U.S. doing, interfering with a staunch ally?

This proves that illegal interference by the U.S. has nothing to do with ideology or with values such as “democracy” or “freedom.” America’s worldview is that the hegemonic pursuit of “absolute security” is the ultimate goal, in line with U.S. interests. For this reason the U.S. needs to cultivate as many puppet regimes as possible around the world, to obey U.S. orders in everything and to follow only America’s lead. As a result, any regime that is “disobedient” can become a thorn in the side of the U.S. and is at risk of being interfered with or toppled by the U.S. at any time.

That is why, as we saw in the “Prism Gate” scandal, all America’s allies in Europe have became targets of monitoring and interference. French President Emmanuel Macron, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders have had no privacy from U.S. spies. Then, in the “Pentagon documents” incident, top-secret information such as high-level internal discussions within South Korea’s government and Ukraine’s military deployment were collected by the United States and later leaked.

The United States has repeatedly accused other countries of engaging in cyberattacks, but again and again the facts prove that the U.S. is the world’s biggest hacker. Constantly suspecting that other countries are engaged in eavesdropping and stealing secrets is likely to be psychological projection by the United States: “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” It is false to say that cooperation with other countries is engaging in power-projection tactics and interference in the internal affairs of other countries. In reality, it is the United States that is judging others by its own actions. When the U.S. has spread its tentacles of interference and disruption all over the world and even its allies struggle to escape, it’s clear that the title of biggest disrupter of the global order must be given to the United States.