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It’s been a disgusting day ranging from famous women in hair & makeup visiting the edge of space for 11 minutes to our woeful “leader” colluding with a fellow despot who refused to return a citizen kidnapped & sent to a gulag. Processing it & hoping there is a productive way to effect change. Stand by
There’s an enormous abundance of tax free money to be made in the manufacture and sale of illegal drugs. To sustain the business protection from investigation and enforcement is helpful. In many mafia type of businesses protection from investigation and enforcement is achieved by establishing partnerships with government officials.
I’ve often wondered why the United States sent our military into Afghanistan. Before our presence there the religiously strict Taliban had effectively shut down the p…
OR, the CIA, DoD, and State Dept are actually clueless. They would like to believe they are so smart since they have so much "intelligence" on a country but, actually have no clue what their injection of outside violence will do.
Upsetting the balance of power in any country makes it ripe for chaos; chaos is NOT predictable; NOT controllable by an outside power.