Then US citizens wonder why everyone else hates them.
Much of this, is not news in many countries, although it lacks solid proof or confessions, it is impossible to keep all that hidden for long.
Brazillians for example figured only one or two years after the US backed coup here, that the coup was US backed. (declassified documents confirmed our suspicions about 5 years ago).
Also, there still many people here waiting to see if documents detailing how our ships got sunk during World War II, the official history is that it was the germans and this is why we joined the war, but WWII veterans swear it was US posing as germans, so they could close the steel mill deal.
When WWII started, Brazil president was very close to Italy leadership, and he was a fascist himself, Brazil was providing lots of resources to Italy and Germany.
Later, US wanted the massive amounts of rubber we had, and of course, wanted Brazil to stop helping the Axis. Then there was the sudden attacks, and a sudden president change of heart, where Brazil would start to supply US instead, specially Jeep tyres, would buy a steel mill, and would help in the African front lines... this got changed to Italy mid-trip, with Brazillian ships dumping into Italy snowy mountains people trained and geared for a desert war...
I know a bunch of people (specially, obviously, fascists, but many non-fascists too, but most of them are over 50) that still resent that story, and wish Brazil had joined (with boots on the ground) the Axis side instead.
Also Brazillian soldiers got shafted hard by the US, specially the "rubber soldiers". US and Brazil made a agreement, where drafted people could choose to fight in Europe, or get shipped to Amazon (with several promises regarding the advantage of going to Amazon, and indeed 50.000 soldiers went to Amazon), they would gather the rubber to make tyres, and US and Brazillian government would jointly pay them and take care of them, and return them back to their family after the war... The payment arrived (and partially) only in 1988, and they are still stranded away from home... (some of them still roam the forest wearing their military uniforms, kinda creepy seeing 90+ year old soldiers roaming the forest)
I aren't particularly familiar with Brazilian history, but I am reasonably familiar with WW2 history.
Brazil declared war (on Germany & Italy only - not Japan) in late August 1942. That was a few months before Churchill's famous "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." speech.
This was well after Pearl Harbour and at a point where it was becoming clearer that the Axis wasn't going to win.
I've never looked into allegations of US sabotage on Brazilian merchant shipping. It's possible, but at the same time it would be very surprising if German U-boats weren't responsible for the majority of the sinkings. There's reasonable evidence that U-507 sunk at least 7 Brazilian ships (the German's were pretty good at keeping records of these things)[1].
It sounds to me like Brazil jumped in on the winning side after being on a wrong side of some bad decisions by some German U-boat commanders.
As an aside, it's fine to criticise the US, but I think it's reasonable to expect some evidence to backup some pretty big allegations. Additionally it's hard to make a moral argument that any country should have joined the Axis Powers during WW2 (with the exception of Finland, who made the best of a bad situation but were pretty much screwed no matter what they did).
> Then US citizens wonder why everyone else hates them.
I do wonder why people from countries with corrupt governments that commit terrible atrocities that they have no control over hate me because I come from a country whose government commits terrible atrocities that I have no control over, yes.
Much of this, is not news in many countries, although it lacks solid proof or confessions, it is impossible to keep all that hidden for long.
Brazillians for example figured only one or two years after the US backed coup here, that the coup was US backed. (declassified documents confirmed our suspicions about 5 years ago).
Also, there still many people here waiting to see if documents detailing how our ships got sunk during World War II, the official history is that it was the germans and this is why we joined the war, but WWII veterans swear it was US posing as germans, so they could close the steel mill deal.
When WWII started, Brazil president was very close to Italy leadership, and he was a fascist himself, Brazil was providing lots of resources to Italy and Germany.
Later, US wanted the massive amounts of rubber we had, and of course, wanted Brazil to stop helping the Axis. Then there was the sudden attacks, and a sudden president change of heart, where Brazil would start to supply US instead, specially Jeep tyres, would buy a steel mill, and would help in the African front lines... this got changed to Italy mid-trip, with Brazillian ships dumping into Italy snowy mountains people trained and geared for a desert war...
I know a bunch of people (specially, obviously, fascists, but many non-fascists too, but most of them are over 50) that still resent that story, and wish Brazil had joined (with boots on the ground) the Axis side instead.
Also Brazillian soldiers got shafted hard by the US, specially the "rubber soldiers". US and Brazil made a agreement, where drafted people could choose to fight in Europe, or get shipped to Amazon (with several promises regarding the advantage of going to Amazon, and indeed 50.000 soldiers went to Amazon), they would gather the rubber to make tyres, and US and Brazillian government would jointly pay them and take care of them, and return them back to their family after the war... The payment arrived (and partially) only in 1988, and they are still stranded away from home... (some of them still roam the forest wearing their military uniforms, kinda creepy seeing 90+ year old soldiers roaming the forest)