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Well simple really, there are still many shitty governments out there and not much of anything that we can do about it. worse is when they get sufficient weaponry it pretty much puts them off limits for any intervention and in some cases lets them blackmail others.

look at Venezuela and even North Korea, then look who supports these regimes that allow the governments of each to keep themselves in power. We cannot do much more than harm the people of countries like these two but surely trade sanctions or limits can be applied to their supporters.



The US is actually causing incredible harm by its trade sanctions against Venezuela, with the US being that country's main trade partner:

http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/venezuela/export-i...

A special UN rapporteur sent to Venezuela suggests the sanctions are causing death due to lack of things like Insulin.

https://therealnews.com/stories/un-rapporteur-us-sanctions-c...


You are probably very young if you believe that fantasy.

Who is this "we" that it's so worried about the welfare of humanity?

Read about the interventions of first Europe and then the USA in the global affairs.

You can check how sugar, then cotton and later oil interest have shaped the world. Or even fruit (1).

(1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company


This one book is filled with so much information. Hands down one of my favourite books. If you ever wanted to understand how sugar shaped the world.

https://www.amazon.ca/Sugar-Barons-Family-Corruption-Empire/...




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