Editorials & Other Articles

Given the lack of foresight, pre-planning and commitment to some sort of guided long term follow thru, I don't think anyone other than maybe Donnie and those similarly disconnected from reality, sees anything Donnie may do as substantively changing the reality on the ground in the long run. There is too much money in drugs for that to not just rebuild itself somewhere with a modified model for the new reality and go on doing what it has done for a long time. We aren't going to encourage importing more goods from these countries which would help their economy but make our trade numbers worse. We won't outright give them cash or anything long term. We might extract finite natural resources that may be a boost in the short term but beggar them in the long term.