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FriedButter

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GulfLander said:
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Beside China. Why are they going after Latin America so hard? These quotes come from the aide of the CIA director. Targets include countries who were never their enemies.

Trump’s CIA will have a greater focus on the Western Hemisphere, targeting countries not traditionally considered adversaries of the U.S., the aide said.
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CIA going after Mexico for trade leverage. Including on fighting the cartel.
For example, the CIA will use espionage to give Trump extra leverage in his trade negotiations, potentially spying on Mexico’s government amid the ongoing trade spat, the aide said.
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The CIA will also take on a significant role fighting Mexican drug cartels, the aide said, which Trump designated as terror groups on his first day in office.
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FriedButter said:
Why are they going after Latin America so hard?
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I think those are mainly optics; they backed down against both Colombia and Mexico.

Illegal immigration management and border control are standard processes that were there even before Trump.

In reality, neither the desired tariffs against Mexico nor the humiliating transfer of immigrants to Colombia succeeded.

Also, it could be said about Panama too. The leader just gave some perfunctory ceremonial concession about BRI,

Whereas all core interests with China remained unchanged. Trump is just good at creating fictional narratives.

And Trump and his team let that slide, as they also don't have energy for Latin America either.

At most, they will demand some symbolic things that Trump could spin for his dumb followers.

If they were real about going after the Western Hemisphere, they wouldn't have backed down.

Although the threat of cartels is a real deal. They could escalate against them at any time.

Latin America = Place for Trump to "act tough". His administration won't sweat that area.

Except for Mexican cartels. After all, they are indirectly killing 100k Muricans per year now.
 
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RedMetalSeadramon

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RedMetalSeadramon said:
Honestly, the appointment of little Marco means a Latin American focus rather than China/Europe.
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FriedButter said:
Beside China. Why are they going after Latin America so hard? These quotes come from the aide of the CIA director. Targets include countries who were never their enemies.



CIA going after Mexico for trade leverage. Including on fighting the cartel.
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I caught this before, Trump's looking for easy headline wins. Its much easier to push South American countries around, especially the smaller ones. Easier to reach militarily, don't have to deal with K-street China-watcher level of Spanish thinktankers, captured elites available for an unending line of neolib stooges.
 
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tygyg1111

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Temstar said:
To them AI speaking in Chinese is like whispers from Lovecraftian evil, capable of indoctrinating people's mind from mere words.

As someone on weibo pointed out, ChatGPT o3-mini thinking out aloud in Chinese is very Lovecraftian to them. Imagine you've just slammed the door on a massive antediluvian creature and retreated back to your sanctum of western chatbot. Then you ask your butler to tell you some encouraging words to sooth your nerves only to have him suddenly start mumbling in the same devil tongue as the creature on the other side of the door.

We think it's funny because we're actually the Deep Ones already.
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How to scare an american:
"Hello, 我爱中国"
 
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