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> Political history would suggest that many good suggestions of social change were likely ignored in favour of operations with a lot of smoke and noise. Likely
by walterbell 2y ago
> Political history would suggest that many good suggestions of social change were likely ignored in favour of operations with a lot of smoke and noise.
Likely to increase with terrorist designation, https://apnews.com/article/gangs-cartels-sinaloa-aragua-trump-terrorist-organizations-b223f4eb513105fb8d965f80a6cecfeb https://apnews.com/article/gangs-cartels-sinaloa-aragua-trum...
Organizations sometimes optimize for the problem to which they are the solution, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491863
- defrost 2y agoIt might have been a smarter move by the US back in the day to extend USAID and collective forming business support to poor south american farmers rather than have the CIA indirectly fund cartels to run drugs into poor US communities in order to distance themselves from supplying arms to overthrow other governments. Today that horse is dead and well beaten .. but maybe guns will solve things this time 'round.
- walterbell 2y agoTariffs are part of the current round.