A lot of sanctioned countries also don’t overthrow their governments like the US hopes for because desperation doesn’t always look like someone picking up a gun and going to war for epic democracy. Sometimes that desperation is just keeping your head down to receive the next meal.
A lot of sanctioned countries also don’t overthrow their governments like the US hopes for because desperation doesn’t always look like someone picking up a gun and going to war for epic democracy. Sometimes that desperation is just keeping your head down to receive the next meal.
Obviously the answer is to increase sanctions and fund right wing terrorism. Eventually the people will get desperate enough to do what the CIA wants.
A flow chart where all the paths lead to a box that says “more fascism”
It’s like one of those “recycling here, trash here” cans with nothing dividing the actual contents but it’s money going to the fascism pile