"Nothing is fool-proof to a talented fool".
You are right, I don't think the war on drugs is a war that can be won. As long as people are willing to pay extreme amounts of money for a quick fix. People will always find a way. It has been, and will always be so. And yeah it can be used as an excuse to just bomb the stuffing out of somewhere. Someone needs to invent something that stops people's addictive tendencies. That would kill the whole deal overnight.
It would not surprise me if it was a smokescreen, honestly. Again... this is nothing new. Colombia, Mexico... Presidents who "get on well" with the US are always more valuable than those who don't. It's been that way for a long, long time. There is sometimes a lot of puppeteering goes on. Often gathering the ire of the people who feel like they don't really have a say.
But I also agree with you, Danielle. There's a saying: "Evil triumphs when good does nothing." I guess you have to define both but you get my point. I recently watched a TV show called "Narcos". Which kind of explains some of what my friend has been telling me for years. Different groups of people don't play by the same rules. If someone wants to be a nasty, greedy megalomaniac, they don't care about gentlemanly agreements. Or morality. Because some folks see something as "right"... it means nothing when the people you're trying to deal with don't even care about it. They aren't reading from the same rulebook, and if you try and apply your own standards to it, you're only ever going to be chasing an angry dragon, as it were.
There is kind of a case for saying "If you want to wrestle a pig, you have to get in the mud."
If this is about drugs then... okay. IF that's what it is. If it isn't then it will come out. History will judge him. Trump's whole mindset about trans folks, I think the guy is a lunatic. As unhinged as a post-apocalyptic doorframe. But I don't want to equate them to the same thing. That's a slippery slope argument. And while I get where you're coming from... I think you have to take each thing as its own thing.
I honestly think the rest of the world is just trying to weather the storm for another few years until he literally can't get back in charge of anything, while trying to deal with the fallout from it. Namely wannabe groups trying to do the same thing.
The important thing here isn't what Trump is doing, it's that people are letting him do it. Like you say, he basically seems to be able to do what he wants these days. Like destroy a chunk of the White House. You can't blame Trump for being Trump if there's literally no one in your country who is in a position to tell him he's being a big manbaby. THAT is the area you have to be concerned with. Trump is going to Trump. He did it the first time round. If you're going to let him back in... then put people in place to limit how much power he has. Or any president in future can have. Maybe he will be a lesson for the future. We can hope. Maybe y'all need a version of the Magna Carta. 810 years late, but better late than never!
