Saturday, March 22, 2014

The US promises to go to war for more than 54 countries

There are 54 different countries on Earth that the US is legally obligated to militarily protect and defend if they get into their own conflicts.

Below is the State Department’s list of them (via Micah Zenko):

RIO TREATY

A treaty signed September 2, 1947, which provides that an armed attack against any American State shall be considered as an attack against all the American States and each one undertakes to assist in meeting the attack.

PARTIES: United States, Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela

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