"You want us to use a missile? They’re extremely accurate." There are several families in Iran who buried their daughters yesterday, who would like a word.
Wow! There’s certainly a lot to unpack here. It sounds ominous and scary to me. I just feel like this is all about money, and power. I mean, of course, drug cartels are “bad” but this is not the way to do this and I don’t think it’s about the drug cartels. Obviously, I’m not a Latin America history scholar. But come on people! This is so transparent. I’m going to do my best to keep up and stay informed. As I said, there’s a lot to unpack here. Very dramatic and scary times. I continue to support the causes I believe in and just hope that we have midterms. That aren’t corrupted.
Well and his comments about China on top of it?? If we're talking military conflict with them, we're spread too thin as it is, and if we're talking economic or similar, that's STILL unwise. Anything we do to them, we're further drawing Russia in (not in the way Trump wants) and pushing the rest of the world out
My husband is Nicaraguan, and when we visited last November, I was astounded at how embedded Chinese economic influence was, even in the rural town where my family lives. If they think they’ll take on Chinese competition breezily and it will be over, no problem, they are going to be unpleasantly surprised. I am very concerned that this is the administration that thinks it’s going to come in and “police” Latin America. It’s absurd. And makes me angry to think of how many more will suffer because of their idiocy and greed.
It seems to me that nothing about drug cartels in South America being eliminated by military means is going to solve much of anything regarding the drug war that has been going on for decades now until something is done about the demand for drugs to start with. As long as there is a great demand for any kind of hallucinogen from Americans who have addictive tendencies , there will be someone who will try to profit from it ala the Drug Cartels ,which begs the question, "Is eliminating the drug cartels really going to solve the demand for it?"
The law enforcement / criminal justice model to control drug cartels failed in large part due to the fact law enforcement officers and officials, and eventally politicians, would be bought.
So now we have a "military model" proposed. What makes anyone think the military cannot be bought? The military in each of those countries listed in the article has to one degree or another been compromised by corruption, sometimes to a great degree. And, of course, the politicians and industrial interests who buy and make the missles have been washing each others' backs for decades.
So I ask this: would you rather have law enforcement agencies on the take and allowing the drug trade to continue, or the military? It is not hard to find lots of examples of what happens to countries when thier militaries become corrupt. They move in on the politicians, until it is not the politicians controlling the military but the military controlling the politicians. And then they sometimes just drop all pretext of civilian control and take over.
But American is "Excaptional," right? It can't happen here. We will never have a President who simply by-passes Congress and does just WTF he wants.
Ask the long-serving officers, active duty or retired, who have grey hair what they think of this plan.
I am so surprised and saddened to read that Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Costa Rica, attended the summit. I had no idea that they were ideologically conservative and aligned with this current administration. I fear for the future. 😔
I think what Elise is saying is that some countries have conservative leaders now in power ,but that does not mean that the entire country is leaning toward conservative thought . I believe that there are probably a lot of South Americans who would prefer that there would be a democratic republic there instead and the Democratic presidents from America have sought to bring this about over the past 70-80 years.
"You want us to use a missile? They’re extremely accurate." There are several families in Iran who buried their daughters yesterday, who would like a word.
Wow! There’s certainly a lot to unpack here. It sounds ominous and scary to me. I just feel like this is all about money, and power. I mean, of course, drug cartels are “bad” but this is not the way to do this and I don’t think it’s about the drug cartels. Obviously, I’m not a Latin America history scholar. But come on people! This is so transparent. I’m going to do my best to keep up and stay informed. As I said, there’s a lot to unpack here. Very dramatic and scary times. I continue to support the causes I believe in and just hope that we have midterms. That aren’t corrupted.
Well and his comments about China on top of it?? If we're talking military conflict with them, we're spread too thin as it is, and if we're talking economic or similar, that's STILL unwise. Anything we do to them, we're further drawing Russia in (not in the way Trump wants) and pushing the rest of the world out
My husband is Nicaraguan, and when we visited last November, I was astounded at how embedded Chinese economic influence was, even in the rural town where my family lives. If they think they’ll take on Chinese competition breezily and it will be over, no problem, they are going to be unpleasantly surprised. I am very concerned that this is the administration that thinks it’s going to come in and “police” Latin America. It’s absurd. And makes me angry to think of how many more will suffer because of their idiocy and greed.
It seems to me that nothing about drug cartels in South America being eliminated by military means is going to solve much of anything regarding the drug war that has been going on for decades now until something is done about the demand for drugs to start with. As long as there is a great demand for any kind of hallucinogen from Americans who have addictive tendencies , there will be someone who will try to profit from it ala the Drug Cartels ,which begs the question, "Is eliminating the drug cartels really going to solve the demand for it?"
The law enforcement / criminal justice model to control drug cartels failed in large part due to the fact law enforcement officers and officials, and eventally politicians, would be bought.
So now we have a "military model" proposed. What makes anyone think the military cannot be bought? The military in each of those countries listed in the article has to one degree or another been compromised by corruption, sometimes to a great degree. And, of course, the politicians and industrial interests who buy and make the missles have been washing each others' backs for decades.
So I ask this: would you rather have law enforcement agencies on the take and allowing the drug trade to continue, or the military? It is not hard to find lots of examples of what happens to countries when thier militaries become corrupt. They move in on the politicians, until it is not the politicians controlling the military but the military controlling the politicians. And then they sometimes just drop all pretext of civilian control and take over.
But American is "Excaptional," right? It can't happen here. We will never have a President who simply by-passes Congress and does just WTF he wants.
Ask the long-serving officers, active duty or retired, who have grey hair what they think of this plan.
I am so surprised and saddened to read that Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Costa Rica, attended the summit. I had no idea that they were ideologically conservative and aligned with this current administration. I fear for the future. 😔
I think what Elise is saying is that some countries have conservative leaders now in power ,but that does not mean that the entire country is leaning toward conservative thought . I believe that there are probably a lot of South Americans who would prefer that there would be a democratic republic there instead and the Democratic presidents from America have sought to bring this about over the past 70-80 years.