Could be worse. Could be Pakistan ransoming every startup industry for IMF loans used exclusively for the Army’s land development schemes lol.

Only place One of few places on Earth where cars consistentantly appreciate in value every month even with high mileage/usage because the supply chain is so utterly screwed.

Right seriously, I’ve even so many report it as “raids” which makes it sound like they have troops on the ground.

I don’t know what the actual reasoning is but the 49/46% on Cambodia and Vietnam sounds an awful lot like how we still embargo Cuba like decades after failing to overthrow Castro.

I’d love to see these idiots try to tail a single American arms shipment and watch how fast the navy tells them to gtfo as they escort more bombs to Israel in a day than what Iran does to Yemen in a year.

Not to mention naval warfare smuggling is as old as time. Britain abused the hell out of it in both WWI and WWII, and still successfully made themselves look like the helpless victim of Germany’s naval blockade after using civilian ships to carry munitions and war supplies.

Lol the CIA has clandestine operations in practically every country on Earth, and even in China where they failed to set up shop properly and get caught every now and then.

The funny thing is Trump is seemingly throwing away all that covert influence and power for public clowning, which is why people think the opposite might happen if the US gives up its major leverage.