I have the impression that when the Republicans finally leave office they will have left so many weird irons in the fire that will not be pertinent to anything in the US interest that most will simply be dropped, if understood to exist at all. However there will be so many people in foreign governments throughout the world whose careers have come to depend upon these oddities that they will have nowhere to turn for support except the Republican establishment who recognize them among the corporate internationalist crowd.


The whole entire exercise is modelled on the way Standard Oil and the United Fruit Company cultivated influence in Latin America.