@Will Rogers Guthrie

Although, there has been no formal declaration of this, yet.

I track American expat sentiments. I noticed that in the past few years, many expats were gravitating to Columbia or making plans to relocate there from other expat colonies. It took awhile for me to figure out that these were the right wing US expats: The ones who let the tax-avoidance tail wag the peaceful fellowship dog. (US expats come in both flavors.) After the recent Columbia elections I noticed heads exploding in certain expat cliques, and took a closer look.

Certainly, expats need to invest carefully to protect their earnings, especially those who work or invest, earning money outside the US. Expat income can come from online work or internet marketing, private foreign investment returns, rental income from owned foreign property, foreign small business ownership, or wages earned working for foreign businesses. In the developing world, NED-installed Right-wing governments are encouraged to open tax loopholes for the US elite, which allows US investor/expats to slip through and avoid local taxes on their income. Columbia become such a place.** Columbia, in turn, benefitted greatly but unevenly from private US investments — the cities and suburban areas look very nice. But this type of predatory capitalism (aka: tax theft) always opens deep wealth gaps in the economy, creating pockets of dystopian misery for the poor and indigenous. The US economy offers a concrete example of a wealth gap caused by tax theft.

Contrast the corrupt US economic model imposed on Columbia with China's "spcialist" economic model. China also has nice looking cities and suburbs for the wealthy and middle classes. But China's managed and regulated economic policies, which are designed to benefit People's lives and protect future resources — also made it possible for poverty to be eradicated throughout China. There can be little wonder that China's more inclusive and positive example will lead to a US military confrontation/provocation, in the near future.

Actually, the US is the world's worst offender when it comes to imposing egregious lifelong taxes on ordinary US expats — but more on that another time.

Meanwhile, the US still overflows with drugs, but Colombia's cocaine has been replaced by far more addictive and destructive meth, which can be produced locally in the US.

This describes some of the trending views held in the Global South.

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** Ukraine offers another example of a country that became a tax-theft / money-laundering center following a NED designed overthrow of Ukraine's elected government in 2014, which was replaced with a US-approved right wing regime government. The Burisma/Biden corruption is a part of that. The US Senate is sitting on this evidence. Read the Executive Summary in the Senate Report: "Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns."

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And Petro quickly recognized Madero.
To survive, and to accomplish even a little of what he hopes to do, I think he needs help
From some other countries in Latin America.
Such additional help would really put kinks in our plans for our involvement.