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[conuly]

The Trump administration’s NSS announces a dramatic reworking of the foreign policy the U.S. has embraced since World War II.

And that's not the most alarming thing about it.

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[silveradept]

So the U.S. government intends to let corporations take over various Latin American countries and rule by puppetry in those spaces, on the assumption that those corporations would never do anything to hurt him. That's very ambitious, and I suspect it will not go over well.

There is at least a bit of honesty in there, as I'm pretty sure the U.S. government has ever actually believed it was subject to any international law or any other doctrine save those where not obeying it resulted in bloody and swift retaliation from those wronged.

I think the people summing it up with the Fourteen Words are on target, and we're just waiting to find out what kind of way they're going to go.

[conuly]

So the U.S. government intends to let corporations take over various Latin American countries and rule by puppetry in those spaces, on the assumption that those corporations would never do anything to hurt him. That's very ambitious, and I suspect it will not go over well.

I mean, it's always worked well enough before, for a given definition of "well enough".

[silveradept]

True enough. Being honest about it might qualify as an improvement in some places. The greater improvement would be to not meddle, or to start busting up megacorps that have the resources to try and take over nations, but I doubt Republicans or Democrats would be willing to go that far.