Who was the first American President to order the assassination of a foreign leader?
One of the books I'm reading, in fits and starts, is about the tradegy of the mineral mining enterprise that all of our battery worshipping antinukes are driving in their efforts to consume all of the world's best ores lest anything be left for future generations.
The book is Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth. by Nicolas Niarchos.
It's focused on cobalt and copper mining in Congo, and discusses the history of that nation emerging from the horror of Belgian colonial practices.
It discusses the anti-colonial rise of Patrice Lumumba, who was trying to prevent the balkanization of Congo by tribal entities, the first Prime Minister of Congo.
He was suspected by the West of being a "communist," caught up in a cold war that not relevant to the Congolese struggle to rule their own fragmented exploited country. Karl Marx, a European of materialist psychology had nothing to do with the lives of slaves.
Dwight Eisenhower, in August of 1960, suggested that the CIA assainate him.
Other people of course, also wanted Lumumba dead so this suggestion by Eisenhower may or may not have resulted in the brutal murder in which Lumumba was savagely beaten to death and his body dissolved in acid with help from Belgian agents. A gold tooth from the body survived and is now ensconced in a kind of historical shrine to which nobody goes.
Eisenhower's successor, JFK, plotted (unsuccessfully) to assassinate Fidel Castro and was implicated in the Diem assassination in South Vietnam. Richard Nixon worked to assassinate Chile's Allende, and so on.
A bit of interesting history that is reflective and relevant to the bourgeois enthusiasm to have slaves mine copper cobalt tantalum and niobium in Africa so we can all feel "green" as we steal from the future generations about whom we couldn't care less.
Have a nice day.
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