They want to turn the US into a 3rd world banana republic that nobody will want to come to.

And no, that's not sarcasm.

we will export minerals and agricultural products

other countries will have the machinery and skilled labor to process what we export

kind of like the slave states exporting cotton to Britain, to be made into cloth

He has his trait of making a statement and then trying to reverse engineer it to make it right. So he’s doing his best to make this country a nation in decline because he said so. And he always has to be right

and backed up their leaders and militaries?
American oligarchs and politicians

The whole idea of a Banana Republic was a creation of American international capitalism. This country has repeatedly created the problems it then complains about later on. The gang "MS13" is a perfect example. The difficulties the people in Venezuela have experienced,, the instabilities in almost every south and central American country, the countries of Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam etc.etc.

You can't swing a dead cat on this planet without finding something that American capitalists have fucked up.

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