(11-03-2019 01:42 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Chile is particularly disappointing. They pretty much followed most of Milton Friedman's suggestions for opening up the economy and installing a true free market. In two decades they went from backwater to G20. They've been steadily dismantling all that progress ever since starting with voting in as President an open socialist who had as some of their top policy proposals the elimination of private schools and privatized social security where you can invest your own retirement money to grow it.

We should use Brazil to destabilize the government in Chile and have a U.S. backed but wholly regional military crack down in Chile and then Venezuela. We might be able to tolerate socialists tenets in part of the EU but we don't need a socialist state on a land bridge to the U.S. and it is yet another reason to lock down the Southern Border and encourage Mexico to lock theirs down as well.