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they tried to grow bananas in the US but the climate is not favorable so instead they used the US armed forces to essentially conquer the central american and s amer nations where bananas are grown on behalf of the United Fruit company and turn these places into client states. They justified it with the abused "monroe doctine"

read Smedly Butlers "war in a racket"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

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