Comment by awesome_dude

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic

The USA military, and secret services were, and still are, at the behest of "American business interests"

See also the Oil industry, and Donald Trump's remarks aimed at the Australian government that might "curtail the tech companies" [1]

1 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/us-tech-x-meta-facebo...