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A review by its_kievan
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
challenging
dark
informative
sad
fast-paced
4.0
“How did the US win the Cold War?”
“You killed us.”
It’s a cliché to say that a certain book is “required reading”, but for The Jakarta Method it is absolutely true. Yes, the US and it’s allies committed horrifying atrocities in the Cold War, which have been ignored and justified by the public because, unlike the USSR and China, they did them mostly to other countries. Perhaps more importantly, the regime changes and interventions that accompanied these atrocities are still affecting million today. The entire structure of the world, the day-to-day suffering of millions of people, is because a handful of men in the “First Wirld” decided that their lives were an acceptable sacrifice to defeat an ideology they never even attempted to understand. You can argue about communism vs capitalism, or the US vs the USSR, but the simple fact is that the West was responsible for millions of deaths that didn’t have to happen.
“You killed us.”
It’s a cliché to say that a certain book is “required reading”, but for The Jakarta Method it is absolutely true. Yes, the US and it’s allies committed horrifying atrocities in the Cold War, which have been ignored and justified by the public because, unlike the USSR and China, they did them mostly to other countries. Perhaps more importantly, the regime changes and interventions that accompanied these atrocities are still affecting million today. The entire structure of the world, the day-to-day suffering of millions of people, is because a handful of men in the “First Wirld” decided that their lives were an acceptable sacrifice to defeat an ideology they never even attempted to understand. You can argue about communism vs capitalism, or the US vs the USSR, but the simple fact is that the West was responsible for millions of deaths that didn’t have to happen.