it's funny cause your "history lessons" focus on (in)direct political control, and such like consequences of american interventionism post-1990. but really neocolonialism/imperialism is defined by a complete lack of care about aforementioned political control. you are trying to disprove the usefulness of the term, whilst detailing at some length the exact reasons the term is valid. which, again, just merely highlights the fact you don't understand the term. "psychotic international business" IS exactly part of neocolonialist discourse: a level of foreign involvement that doesn't even care about regional/national politics, or exerting any sort of formal/political control - just, instead, laying the ground for fertile business relations, and a more open (and internationalised) market presence. the american industrial-military complex, and the obvious and oft-mentioned natural resources, are major imperatives for the wars in the middle-east. just like american scorn of chavez and other central/south american states in 20th century history was about economic benefits, more so than any cold-war related political-ideological struggle.
please read the books. you diss academics and 'ivory towers' with the dumb logic of the grunt who thinks that, because he's stomped a few afghani children, and shot a few goatherds, is entitled to make policy in a senior position as part of a washington thinktank. all the military vets here have the same attitude: "you weren't there man" / "my experience informs a more extensive knowledge of geopolitical matters". half the grunts in iraq couldn't even pass a written exam to get into a decent college. please. tell me more about how academics are useless.
please read the books. you diss academics and 'ivory towers' with the dumb logic of the grunt who thinks that, because he's stomped a few afghani children, and shot a few goatherds, is entitled to make policy in a senior position as part of a washington thinktank. all the military vets here have the same attitude: "you weren't there man" / "my experience informs a more extensive knowledge of geopolitical matters". half the grunts in iraq couldn't even pass a written exam to get into a decent college. please. tell me more about how academics are useless.
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