Excuse me its not a waste of money. Its years of fruitful work. You wouldn't hire an intern out of community college, would you? Someone without any connections a good family?
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I wonder to what extent this will be a coup de grace against the FARC, or if they'll instead return with a vengeance. Which would blow over towards the Brazilian and Ecuadorian Amazon regions. It is more or less believed that the ceasefire in Colombia led to a power vaccuum, with the FARC no longer maintaining guarantees for international drug routes in the Amazon. This led to a power grab by criminal syndicates in Ecuador and the two big factions in Brazil, who not only warred over the Brazilian Amazon but also ousted the Paraguayan syndicates from the Brazil-Paraguay border as well.
you stole his chance
I think that's when you get a Thatcher instead of a Reagan.
China was already gearing to turn their massive economy towards consuming homegrown jets. So, in a way its just not letting a good embargo go to waste.
I think the notion that liberals are just better stewards of empire than the reactionaries always pans out. You can say that Obama and Biden's ideological constraints meant that they never went far enough. Like with the CHIPS act becoming a money sinkhole instead of a proper industrial policy, mostly because the government was unwilling to make the long term investments in education or, worse, was even less willing tell companies not to blow all the subsidies into stock buybacks. But that was still a better plan than embargoing the whole world and collapsing your own state's ability to finance itself. The TPP could have encircled China with markets where the US is the top rentier. Instead we have the East Asian trifect talking to each other about countering US policy.
how about 'accidentally dropped a red carpet from orbit onto an otherwise ignored alleyway'?
I close the tab on my computer by accident rendering me unable to get my password back due to forgetting my login details, mainly my password!
many such cases
The answer is that they don't want to lower the value of the dollar. This is something that people like Yanis theorized under the principle of 'looking for the true grand strategy behind the madness'. But Occam's Razor applies here and Trump's government is not shy of its contradictions. They want to have their cake and eat it too. They want manufacturing at home with lots of jobs, but also automation to drive costs down. They want everyone to keep using the dollar, but they also want stronger foreign currencies so they can reindustrialize. They want to raise revenues from tariffs, but they also wanna produce more at home. They want to extract concessions and get foreign countries to buy more of their products, but won't do anything about poorer countries' debts to them meaning that they can't buy shit because they are broke. They wanna industrialize, but don't want to do anything that goes against the financial economy or has an inkling of industrial policy (outside the military, that is).
The only real, straightforward thing we have is that the US is doing to itself what it has done to countries abroad. A shift from the tax base away from industry, production and taxation of wealth and towards taxation of consumption. Tariffs as a way to give tax breaks to the richest. The devolution of the middle class into a sub-proletarian that is unable to sell their labor anywhere because the rich account more than half of all spending and luxury goods do not create a lot of jobs. This is the tailend of a process that started With Carter and Reagan only now being led by extremely incompetent people.
I guess the next 5 year plan is coming out next year so we'll know the answer to this question then. Directly or indirectly.
I think that at one point Shatner was gearing up to Act and make this heartfelt speech before the cameras - only to be cut off by Bezos summoning women from the ether for a champagne bottle opening. It felt like the guy was allergic to even performative introspection and it's not like I can't buy that Shatner was genuinely moved by going to space.