This week, Erik Prince, the founder of the private military company Blackwater, posted a condemnation of the Venezuelan ruler on Twitter. Prince has connections to the inner circle of Donald Trump, so his opinions about such things could reflect Trump’s opinion or may influence Trump’s opinion. He also linked to this New York Times puff piece on Venezuelan “opposition leader” María Corina Machado, which paints her as the Margaret Thatcher of South America.
The quotes around the term “opposition leader” are because there is nothing authentic about María Corina Machado. Like Juan Guaidó, who preceded her as the official opposition leader, Machado is largely a product of the American foreign policy machinery, which produces these figures on demand. The United States intelligence community runs a complex program to select, filter and groom opposition candidates for just about every country on the globe.
That is not to say Machado is not a real Venezuelan, but that like most of these American made opposition leaders, she is more comfortable in an American faculty lounge than on the streets of Caracas. This was the problem with Juan Guaidó, who is now driving an Uber in Miami. The people who select and groom these people select and groom people who are compelling to them, rather than the target audience, which is why they tend not to do so well in their home country.
It speaks to the insularity of the American managerial elite, as well as to the poverty of human intelligence. They never think about why Nicolás Maduro remains popular, despite the conditions in the country. He may not have majority support, it is impossible to know, but he has a strong base of support. The same was true of Hugo Chavez, who preceded Maduro. The American elites just see a thug and assume everyone sees the same thing, so he must be illegitimate.
That is not to say Maduro is a good ruler. By objective measures, he is a terrible ruler, outside of his ability to survive American regime change efforts. Otherwise, his policies have been terrible, and they have helped plunge his country into economic collapse, resulting in a flood of people out of the country. It is a disgrace that the American government has not been able to do anything to address this problem. After all, this is the backyard of the American Empire.
Since President Monroe first articulated it in his State of the Union address, it has been the official policy of the United States to protect and safeguard the countries of the Western hemisphere. At first it was intended to defend them against the colonial powers of the Old World. In the 20th century, it evolved to include protecting the people of the New World from their own rulers. Controlling guys like Maduro used to be a primary mission of American foreign policy.
It is not as if America has not tried to regime change Venezuela. It just so happens that Maduro is better at being gangster than the gangsters in Washington. This gets to another problem with American foreign policy. In the old days, when the people making policy traced their family line to the Mayflower, dollar diplomacy and clever statecraft were used to manage these problems. These days, the people making policy can only think of using force to get their way.
That is where you see other problems turning up in South America. China just opened a massive new port in Peru, which will allow it to service the South American market and buy lots of new friends in the region. Chinese companies have acquired concessions for two of the five ports adjacent to the Panama Canal. China is investing billions into infrastructure projects in and around the canal. Of course, China and Brazil are partners in BRICS and the Belt and Road Initiative.
While The Lobby demands the Levant get all the attention of the American empire, the neocons demand Russia get all the attention and the China hawks demand Taiwan get all the attention, the backyard of the American Empire is ignored. This is in spite of the fact that the two major problems facing the United States have their source south of the Rio Grande. The flow of drugs and migrants into the country is entirely due to neglecting American duties in the hemisphere.
Donald Trump’s focus on immigration suggests he will make the Western Hemisphere a priority again, but it remains to be seen if the foreign policy establishment will go along with it or rethink its tactics. Thirty years of thuggery not working should cause some rethinking, but these are people who struggle to learn from failure. The tone of that tweet from Erik Prince is not encouraging. Perhaps it will take another failed regime change effort to change some minds.
What is happening in South America is a microcosm for what has been happening with the American Empire since the Cold War. Everything close to home is ignored in favor of distant ventures on the periphery of the empire. Policy makers in Washington think more about infrastructure in Ukraine than in the United States. The lack of a response to the hurricane in North Carolina is a great example. If that happened in Armenia, the empire would have swung into action immediately.
In the area of foreign policy, the empire has been doing what it has done with regards to domestic policy. The focus is always on what is furthest away and has the least impact on the citizens. Buckets of tears are shed over “refugees” entering illegally while the millions of Americans poisoned by drugs are ignored. Millions are spent on “securing the safety” of imaginary online communities rather than on the actual safety of the food supply or the physical health of the American people.
The same hollowing out of American culture and the physical homeland has been happening with foreign policy. Trillions are spent trying to change ancient cultures around the globe, while the problems in our backyard are neglected. The Panama Canal matters far more to Americans than Gaza, yet the former is neglected, while the latter is an obsession. As with domestic neglect, there will be a cost to ignoring our backyard in favor of the other side of the world.
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Latin America is simply not a top obsession of the tribe (as are Israel and Ukraine) nor does it play an important role in the US being the dominant global player. So the top priorities are Iran, Russia and China.
The only enthusiasm the GAE can seem to muster concerning LA are defeating Madero and Bukele and using unrest in LA to flood the US with invaders. so no downside.
Eventually China’s rise in LA will panic them but not until Iran is dealt with and they figure an exit from Ukraine
I don’t think that the Tribe is that interested in China either. Neither the neocons nor The Lobby care that much. China is more a white guy obsession. This will be a coming fight. The neocons and The Lobby will want to keep the focus on the Middle East and Russia while the Pentagon will want to focus on China.
I think the happy merchant class is finally realizing that the, “Hello, my fellow Han Chinese!” trick doesn’t exist.
Printing fiat currency has kept the plates spinning for decades now, but debasement cannot continue forever. And those chickens will come home to roost starting later this year. Real hardship will return and only then can we begin to self-correct. And this repair can be fast or slow. Slow means prolonged misery before redemption. Faster is better, but it means the pathogens must go and than won’t be pretty. It has always been thus.
This is what happens when you let foreigners into the country and government. They pursue their interest, not yours.
“ Everything close to home is ignored in favor of distant ventures on the periphery of the empire. Policy makers in Washington think more about infrastructure in Ukraine than in the United States. ”
As I’ve stated previously, this is not simply “oversight”. It is a “feature” and desired. The closer to home such actions are designed to take effect, the easier they can be observed and judged as to their proposed success.
For example, one can pass a bill to fund rebuilding infrastructure in Ukraine and have it stolen by the oligarchs and rapacious companies in the US far easier than one can pass a bill to modernize ports in the US and steal such funding here. On the other hand, one must note that our present rulers have been pretty successful here at home with such bills as the “Inflation Reduction Act”. So perhaps my analysis is dated. 🙁
Yes indeed, Compsci.
It is a feature. It’s why they love proposing remedies for the “climate emergency”, as there is no real way to ever determine the success of such remedies.
Success is whatever they say it is.
Lord have mercy.
Exactly correct.
All the, “War on Nebulous Target,” schemes mean infinite funding with no responsibility for results.
Infinite funding means infinite grifting.
Latin America and Brazil are close but very difficult to understand. Brazil is a huge, diverse place, they speak Portuguese and had a totally different colonial experience versus the others. LatAm is comprised of 16+ countries each with their own ethnic mix, industries, elites, political differences, not to mention historical grudges. Nobody in Washington is going to try to understand all this stuff (beyond the obvious interest in raking the cocaine/drug trade).
During the Cold War, US banks lent loads of dollars to most of these countries. So we developed a banking class that understood these countries at least a little. Of course, these loans were huge losers. They were largely written off in the Bush HW administration (Brady Bonds anyone?). My generation (late boomer, early X) is really the last group that has had serious business contact with LatAm. A lot of the neglect is a product of ignorance/difficulty in understanding what’s going on down there. I have many friends/contacts there, speak Spanish, do business with them and still don’t understand very much about what’s happening. We should approach foreign policy with more humility.
‘Local neglect’ is an understatement.
China has a strong foothold in Latin America. In Costa Rica, for example, the Commies ‘gifted’ C.R. a shiny new sports stadium in San Jose, the capital city, and receives numerous concessions therefrom. There are endless Chinese-operated supermarkets and stores throughout the nation. It’s about establishing presence and intel, much more than a foot-in-the-door.
The C.R. government is down with this. The ticos? Not so much. Largely, they dislike the ‘chinas’. Washington? They’re too busy spreading wokeness, homosexuality, and feminism throughout the planet. Priorities, doncha know.
The Russian military camps out in Nicaragua, and the Russkies damn sure have much more than ‘advisors’ present, including at the southern border with Costa Rica. But D.C. is far more interested in installing rainbow flags throughout Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Western Europe already flies them. Proudly.
As Z notes, the Canal Zone already has been infiltrated by the Chinese. Washington gradually is losing Central and South America. The Beltway yawns and texts its insider-trading cronies for this week’s stock market grift, while the dollar plummets at foreign exchanges.
The U.S. no longer is a serious country, and everybody knows it except Washington.
“The U.S. no longer is a serious country, and everybody knows it except Washington.”
Actually i think they know it also, that is why all they do is loot the country and put the bill on the FEDS balance sheet.
I’ve noticed that the TV commercials have stopped pushing mixed race black+white couples lately. The past few weeks I’ve been bombarded with oriental+white couples.
The presumption of American interventionism is that the empire has something to offer. However, everything our current rulers gets involved with turns to shit. The premise of offering asylum to refugees is that their families will be better off in America. Instead, the wives turn into raging feminists and the children into gang-bangers. The deportees then spread this miasma in traditional Latin American societies which had no mechanisms for coping with them. The violent alien gangs now taking over American neighborhoods learned their methods from our own ghettos.
Probably be more accurate to say that during the 20th century US policy was to protect its installed leaders in Latin America from the wrath of the people (e.g., Nicaragua’s Somoza). What’s good for United Fruit is good for the USA.
For maybe the last two decades China has been encroaching on the turf of USA’s backyard. In the words of Don Corleone, they’re making offers that can’t be refused. The bankrupt and increasingly backward US empire has nothing to offer remotely comparable.
China offers economic benefits with no questions asked, no demands for democracy or gay rights and no military threats The USA makes demands and threats. Who wouldn’t prefer the Chinese deal?
Most Viet Nam and GWOT veterans will tell you with at straight face that their wars would’ve been won if “only the gloves came off!”.
There are limits to military power. Israel can bounce the rubble in every school house, apartment building, hospital, and day care center but at the end of the day there are 10 million Israelis surrounded by a billion Arabs who don’t much care for them.
Eric Prince has a strain of the “give me unlimited martial material and I can murder our way to security” in his eye.
I think there’s some truth to that veteran attitude. Vietnam, in particular. But what exactly would have been “won”? That’s the bigger question than whether or not it could have been. “Taking off the gloves” against Germany and Japan ultimately led to watching this far flung empire being mismanaged by credentialed retards and sycophants, although I guess a lot of the right people got rich along the way. Much less than that likely would have been “won” in Vietnam or Iraq.
This seems correct. We might have forced an effective demilitarized zone, cessation of conflict, and time to organize a capitalistic State as we did in South Korean. However, given that China succumbed to a mixed economic system (Who’d have thought at the time?), Vietnam has as well, and with great results. Hard to think of a “better” outcome for Vietnam. Asians are capitalists at heart. We wasted 50k lives and a trillion dollars in the folly of Americanizing Vietnam.
If the travel bloggers can be believed, the younger Vietnamese have largely forgotten the war and do not hold it against the American people.
I suppose that’s one small blessing in the aftermath of that completely unnecessary, tragic conflict.
“Vietnam, in particular.”
Really? I view that as wasted lives. Hell they sell you the shoes you wear these days, wasted lives and lost jobs to boot.
I posted a link to that Weiss Thiel interview a couple of days ago. Pertinent to today, Thiel spent several minutes making the case for why Iran must not get a nuclear weapon. Ironically, because Israel has the weapon plus those of the US, it is the exact reason why in Tehran’s view they must get it – as a deterrant.
In any case, Iran is going to be a major focus of the GAE. It almost feels like even though the neocons have been renounced formally by Trump and Thiel and others, it isn’t a change of policy, strategy and tactics but rather just a change of who is running the show.
It is all quite depressing. You could solve almost the entirety of the immigration problem without any international diplomacy. It is funded and operated within the borders of former-America. NGOs, governors, Senators, bureaucrats, corporate boards and senior management … … are funding and running the operation. This invasion isn’t some failure. It is deliberate and fully coordinated and operated by the ruling class.
Why? Walmart just announced it is opening a major distribution center in Nicaragua or Honduras or Guatamala. One of those places I don’t give the first fuck about them getting access to Sam’s Club.
A while ago, when phony heat was being placed on Mayorkas by the Senate he said that this invasion is necessary and cited that the foreign remittances were essential to America. That opened me up to thinking that this was how the GAE was going to control/bribe colonies into its orbit.
A couple of weeks ago, Germany announced an agreement with Kenya to import tens of thousands of Kenyans to drive buses in former-Germany. As is typical of this sloppy low-concern for good propaganda and story regime, they cited the following as a benefit: This would be good for Kenya because they could use the remittance money to tax Kenyans in their homeland getting the remittances, and then pay their debts.
Now it all adds up. You import helots. You pay them. Germany, sodden in debt, gets bus drivers to pay. Kenyans in Germany pay large fees to the banks and wire houses to send extra money back to Kenyans in Kenya. Kenya’s government high officials take their cut. They tax the rest and pay interest on their unsurmountable debt. Banks rake in the cash on both sides and do not have to eat their losses. Even better, at some point this economic, “growth”, will result in Walmart distribution centers opening in Kenya.
So, this is a system of global usury on a scale that is beyond anything fathomable in the annals of human history. I suppose it explains why the push for globohomo and white erasure in corporate ads.
Of course, Germany being able to pay bus drivers with ever more debt is the lynchpin of the system which of course is dependent upon America being able to dole out money from its ever growing pile of debt.
As Z-Man points out, Americans and America are not under consideration. These people are falling all over themselves to not be American in the first place. That is another major reason why they hate Trump. He loves America and they hate it.
We are on our own. Trump will provide cover and some minor openings for us. I assume there will not be mass deportations and if they actually happen will be pleasantly surprised. I assume Hegspeth will legitimately reverse the ethnic cleansing of Whites from the military and may even punish Goldfein, CQ Brown, Milley, Austin and the large cadre of traitors who have for years undertaken the anti-White ethnic cleansing of the military under the guise of equity/DEI/CRT … …
If only the latter happens that will be a big win for us as we can get a decent toehold in at least one institution and an important one.
We are run by merchants. Business, growth, technological progress, while not bad things are what they believe are the only things that matter. They believe that those things lead to prosperity and that is enough to have a civilization and a stable society.
They are wrong. But, they have the power, and they are going to fail in order to be proven wrong. The damage that will be done is scary to contemplate. Use Trump’s term as a bridge to pass over into the other side.
Build networks amongst Our folk. Own property and gather together. Obtain local power and control. Build patrimony and strengthen the network. Accumulate wealth by building but make the definition of wealth not be solely measured in dollars but in the groundwork for a healthy and viable long term peoplehood who are closed to outsiders but have high trust within the in group. We are behind all of the other groups in this regard. This is how they already operate and why they own small franchises in every nook and cranny of America. We have to catch up and be determined to in a generation or two surpass them. The first thing is forming a strong in-group preference and exercising with prudence and subtlety.
If you operate in any Regime institution fine. Be the best and go as far as you can go. Take the spoils of this and be a patron of the American Asturias that will survive post-America.
Pray that Trump and any patriots on his team can make some tactical and strategic gains that will help us over the coming decades.
Pressuring Iran so they will not get the bomb will only result in them getting the bomb. The religious leaders do not want a bomb for religious reasons, but they have said that if Iran or the regime is threatened, then they will allow it. The Obama people understood this, which is why they made the deal with Iran, but then Trump junked it. One of the enduring aspects of our foreign policy is the steadfast refusal to learn anything about the rest of the world.
If Israel’s actions since Oct. 7 and Trump’s cabinet don’t convince Iran to get the bomb, I’m not sure what will.
Agreed. Thiel’s case was that the bomb would allow Iran to use its networks across the Middle East to intervene in foreign countries.
It is all projection. Israel and its North American vassal having the bomb allow them to meddle across the Middle East in exactly the fashion disapproves of.
The bomb would give Iran a deterrent and hopefully lessen shenanigans by both sides.
The GAE is a belligerent force. Per your article today you make the great point. It is belligerent toward its own people, and hated by its own people as much as by people abroad.
“ One of the enduring aspects of our foreign policy is the steadfast refusal to learn anything about the rest of the world.”
Certainly that is true, but is such a complete answer? Could it not be that we view the rest of the non-Western world (with perhaps the exception of sub Sahara Africa) through a filter? A lens that views people and cultures in terms of American ideals and culture? In other words, scratch the surface and you’ll find an American waiting to come out?
Seems that we assume some sort of pathological equalitarianism—not only at home, but abroad. If we can’t accomplish such when we import them here, why would we expect success exporting such thinking abroad?
I don’t believe the sincerity of the fatwa against nuclear weapons. It did not ever stop Pakistan from getting nukes nor several other Muslim countries from trying. And it seems very inconsistent that a religion as war-like as islam would forego the most potent weapon of the age. They were perfectly happy to supplement scimitars with cannons and other firearms back in the day. Deceit is also allowed under Islamic law. They’re not exactly Amish when it comes to weapons technology
I want to add something here. The GAE offers a very powerful and seductive fruit – unprecedented personal affluence.
Nobody is immune to it. The American people fell for it first and are now awakening to its nightmare. Affluence is not bad but it isn’t a cure-all and it has its darkness.
That fruit is going to be bitten by the world who all want a bite. We must stop with blaming and whining and complaining about Jews. We must look at them and see why they are best suited for an order like what exists and will perpetuate for a long time. We must learn and in the important ways that suit our bio-spirit adopt/adapt.
We have to develop an ethno narcissism but not be paranoid. We must feel that for us our way is superior but not be supremacists. We must be all about Us. This business is Aryan owned. I frequent it and not the others. This school is Aryan operated – I send my kids there and I train, mentor and hire from it. I need an accountant, lawyer, electrician … … I use the Aryan network almost exclusively if not exclusively to hire, recommend, rate … …
When 70-120 million of us are operating that way, we will be a colossus. When we need lower skilled people, we hire our own. This can happen across Europe as Our cousins there respond to being abandoned and betrayed as we have been. We will ultimately forge ties with them in the same way as well.
I estimate 30-40% of European people will survive this order. That means a coordinated and organized diaspora of 300-400 million people. We can do something with that. The governments of The West are not Western and they are a wrecking ball to The West.
Western Civilization is that 30-40% that chooses today that to operate in this way that preserves and develops itself according this new model and new way of behaving and the journey creates heroes and a future that is bright. If the percentage of our current 900 million is higher – all the better. Be that initial 5% and help it swell to 30 then 40. That is our focus and that is our task. The West lives or dies with us.
All for today.
Great comment. I miss the up vote button
Yes what happened to the up/downvote button?
The holy grail of business models is getting the bulk, or even all, of your revenue from fedguv. Because it prints the unlimited free loldollars, the customer never runs out of money. Demand never wanes. In bygone days of yore this was more limited to defense contractors and construction companies building infrastructure, but now everybody is getting in on that act while the getting is good, and every day coming up with new and ingenious ways to play this angle. The average person has little concept of what is happening, such as wal mart paying to import wogs, get them signed up for EBT, which they spend at wal mart. Just one of the more obvious examples.
The priorities of the US foreign policy establishment are obscene and absurd. I guess there is no money to be laundered through wars in South America.
Steve Sailer has been pointing out the absurdity of the US neglect of Mexico and South America since W invaded Iraq. What happens south or the Rio Grande matters more to the US than what happens in the Mideast.
Indeed. Mexico is the key, then drift down to middle Americas. South America may be lost. Hell, half of MX is already living here.
There is a saying something to the effect of do-gooders can’t see the children begging in their own streets but they worry endlessly about children at the other end of the Earth. This just shows that it’s about holier than thou moral narcissism
Just one more example, as if more are needed, as to how corrupt, incompetent and evil the US government is – and has been, for a long time. Nothing that would actually benefit the American people as a whole is given the least bit of consideration, because DC doesn’t give a s***. They’re going to do what they want to do and nothing else matters. They don’t even try to sell these clusterf**** to the populace anymore – the hoi poloi be damned. They need a huge roundhouse to the metaphorical kisser – in whatever form that takes…
Yeah, Z’s comment about the empire being unable to imagine an appealing leader in Venezuela reminded of the same government trying to get a prostitute elected as president of their own government.
“The people who select and groom these people select and groom people who are compelling to them, rather than the target audience.”
Sounds like the Democrat Party nominating process. Which speaks to regime attitudes in general. You see similar qualities in the handpicked “leaders” of Canada, UK, Germany, list goes on. Giving up any degree of control is unthinkable, thus we get the handpicked candidates and “leaders,” who will always protect regime interests, rather than candidates the people might want who could be less reliable for the actual regime. Somehow Trump broke through that, in part because the Republicans are more incompetent, but also because Republican voter base is less willing to always do as they are told, I think that’s true too. Fewer NPCs on that side, as a percentage.
Talk about a crisis of competency, I would think our policy makers realize that it’s not helping to regime change Venezuela by providing a relief valve that lets thousands of disgruntled and miscreant Venezuelans flood into the U.S. But here we are, checkbook diplomacy instead, as usual. They want to have their cake and eat it too, upend a foreign country while disrupting their own simultaneously. Even though it may have cost them the election. What a strategy!
Protected by two oceans, the U.S. has not had to worry overmuch about Eurasian powers stepping to it. That left the local governments of the Americas as potential enemies. Yet, since Mexico invaded Texas, there has not been one single nation in the Western Hemisphere willing and able to stand up to America. The United States, spoiled for choice and with a plethora of good options, cannot seem to make real friends in the region. Only Canada seems to like America, and Canada is a mirror-clone of American society. Of course you like yourself, ensconced in a dreamworld of Hollywood images and tropes.
Washington relies on the shiny glint of American power to impress the natives, it’s image burnished by sight of the American legions going around the globe. Like a gang in South-Central L.A. the U.S. uses monetary prestige in conjunction with force to overawe countries from Argentina to Costa Rica.
This dualism — sometimes expressed as Coca Colonization of the locals — leads to frustration and resentment on the part of Latin Americans. Like the Muslim world, the Latin Americans know they are weak and hate it. Every Latino working as a rent-a-cop in Texas or a hotel maid in Florida speaks to the humiliating second class nature of the Southern nations. They long to be as good as Americans but just can’t seem to get there.
— Greg (my blog: http://www.dark.sport.blog)
Having spent a few years in the DC bubble as a youth (though admittedly as a low-level outsider), it’s hard to describe how little those people cared about Americans and even less about Mexico and South America.
Sure, there was the Jewish contingent, but the goys were just as bad. If they thought about normal Americans at all, it was disdain, but, generally, they didn’t think about them at all, except for how to trick them into voting for so and so. They’re domestic world was the DC, Philly (lots of Jews from Philly), NYC, Boston (sort of) and LA. At the time, San Francisco wasn’t part of their world. Tech hadn’t invaded DC yet.
They cared more about Toledo, Spain, than Toledo, Ohio because they’d been to Spain.
@ZMan – Neglect?
At some point, I think you will find it simpler and easier to explain these many Many overseas policies that each contribute to damage the cohesion, prosperity, peace and survival of the USA (e.g. Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, South America… you name it) as Not a matter of “neglect”, nor of incompetence (because “errors” are, somehow, Always in an adverse-to-the-USA direction) – but instead a matter of deliberate, strategic malice.
Maduro may not be a good ruler, but he was bright enough to seize the opportunity to empty his prisons and send his worst to the US.
Maduro also emptied his asylums, like Castro…So the US also got the criminally insane as well as the gangbangers…Biden’s insane policies have definitely made a better Venezuela!
And Venezuela won’t willingly accept a return of these criminals and nutcases….
Accepting your “scum” back. There’s where I’d use the military and hit them hard. Imagine a flotilla and a “D-day Invasion” sort of landing where the thousands setting foot on shore are IA’s being repatriated. One can dream…..
The US Navy may be obsolete in certain respects, but it could do a fine job of blockading the ports and interdicting the airspace of nations sending us drugs and migrants. Same with the Peruvian/Chinese port. No ground troops required, except maybe an occasionally punitive Marine unit, for educational purposes.
Make Banana Wars Great Again!
That might work, but it is likely to be counter-productive. It will only increase the incentive to leave and come here.
What we need is akin to a “fly paper” strategy – help them over there so we don’t have to support them over here. But that means doing actually helpful things like infrastructure and fair deals (like the Chinese).
The group that runs the empire doesn’t see America as “home”.
It is only an increasingly antique and irrelevant segment of this thing who continue to entertain fantasies of co-existence with them.
It’s not just the Jews. The Goys don’t see all of America as their home either – and haven’t for decades. To them, the bulk of America is just some unsophisticated hinterland filled with rednecks and Dollar Generals.
I forget who it was, I think one of those Frankfurt School Jews, who wrote about traveling cross country by train. Seeing all of those small towns in flyover country horrified him. He saw them as a threat.
I think Marco Rubio’s nomination as sec. of state is a result of Trump’s desire to refocus and repair relations among our southern neighbors. It would also get him out of the senate (DiSantis will appoint his successor), and it would place him in a position to use whatever “strengths” he possesses. The heavy lifting in Europe, Asia, and the Mideast will belong to Trump personally, as these are some of the most vexing issues of our time.
Up until his alleged conversion to the Trump side, Rubio’s plan was to engage in neocon foreign policy escapades in Central and South America. He was desperate to invade Venezuela when he ran for President in 2016. I don’t know how sincere is his adjustment has been to the Trump worldview, but hopefully with the focus shift comes a shift in tactics as well.
I gather that Tegucigalpa is not as prestigious or pleasant a posting as Tel Aviv, Paris or Beijing and speaking Spanish is declasse.
Yeah, I’ve been there. It is a very dangerous place. It was a long time ago, but from what I’ve heard, it has gotten worse, not better.
Yet very close by across the border, El Salvador has gotten suddenly and dramatically safer.