Friday, August 28, 2020

Amateur foreign policy question

If I were a bad leader in another country, I would plot my most nefarious activities for every 1st and 4th year of the Presidential cycle.  Who's going to notice or have time for confrontation?  

Is that what they do?  

"I'll take over this country that nobody in the U.S. has heard of; who's going to notice?"

"I think this is a good year for genocide; the American media's parsing soundbites."

"I don't like my staff; I think I'll kill them.  The Google newspage is full of bikinis; nobody will know."  

"So and so is dating so and so, in the United States.  I think I'll take over all the private businesses in my country and declare them my property."

"America is losing the drug war.  How can I make that happen faster today?"

"I know that the majority of people in my country are starving; not just poor and extremely unhappy, but starving to death.  I'm glad that nobody other than some nonprofit organizations talks about it."