America's track record in South-America is pretty poor. For a long time it was a proxy battle ground for the Cold War.
And Trump just cut most of the relief funding, so a lot of social welfare programs are being cut short.
Making countries rich is part of geopolitical strategy (for instance, West-Germany vs. East-Germany). For every country that the US "made rich" is a country where life expectancy went way down due to US involvement.
Since we are in conspiracy territory, it could also be a staged "false alert", but not to distract from Trump policy, but to confront Trump with the reality of nuclear warfare.
He was on Twitter a few days back talking about whose nuclear button is bigger. If Trump is triggerhappy and willing to sacrifice millions to salvage his ego, then maybe some footage of children huddled up, crying and thinking the world is about to end, will instill a sense of reverence for life.
Under Obama in 2010, we had Obama defunding part of the nuclear missile program, and in the same week, entire nuclear grids went offline due to an unexplained bug. This also send a clear signal to the commander in chief.
> The Air Force swears there was no panic. But for three-quarters of an hour Saturday morning, launch control officers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming couldn't reliably communicate or monitor the status of 50 Minuteman III nuclear missiles. Gulp.
> The incident comes at a particularly tricky time for the Obama administration, which is struggling to get the Senate to ratify a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. In conservative political circles, there's a distrust of the nuclear cuts – and a demand that they be matched with investments in atomic weapon upgrades. Saturday's shutdown will undoubtedly bolster that view.
And Trump just cut most of the relief funding, so a lot of social welfare programs are being cut short.
Making countries rich is part of geopolitical strategy (for instance, West-Germany vs. East-Germany). For every country that the US "made rich" is a country where life expectancy went way down due to US involvement.