Re: Still with Trump
By: Vilenihilist to Dumas Walker on Mon Mar 30 2026 06:48 am
>
> Dems and Reps will not hold the
> business classes responsible for their
> role, they won't enforce labor laws
> that would reduce the incentive to havethis underclass of workers, and in
> Trump's unique case, he has gutted
> USAID so the chance to use soft power
> to help foreign governments and thus
> reduce the issues that drive mass
> exodus to the US has been vastly
> weakened.
>
This approach comes from the point of view that powerful countries are responsib
le for the problems of less powerful countries, which is not true as often as so
me would like to believe.
Let's take Mexico as a simplified example. To put it bluntly,
a) The work of the US government is to defend the interests of their citizens, n
or Mexico's.
b) A whole lot of Mexico's problems are related to the way Mexico manages their
matters.
c) If the US were to introduce projects to develop Mexico they would be thrown i
nto /dev/null
The European counterpart is clearly visible: Spaniards have a tendency to blame
all of their problems on external forces - it is always Germany or whatever who
is to blame for the fact Spanish farming is barely sustainable, for example. But
then the EU injects vasts amounts of money into developing the Spanish farming
economy...
... and it doesn't improve...
... because money they hand to a government does not get translated into adecuat
e use, and beyond that, core issues are internal and cannot be fixed with money.
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