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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Columbians to allow deportation flights
Date: 01/27/25 3:22 PM
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And this is the Acceptance of Mediocrity chorus I mentioned earlier.
The Colombian criminals are theirs, and they're taking them back, no ifs, ands or buts.


They've never refused them in the past. As was pointed out upthread, they received many hundreds of flights of deportees continuously over the last several years.

This didn't achieve getting Colombia to take back criminals - all it did was force Colombia to accept military aircraft instead of civilian aircraft. It was literally idiotic to use the threat of an economy-disrupting trade war over such a minor thing. It worked, of course - Colombia accepted the military aircraft instead of the civilian aircraft. But now Colombia - and every other nation in the hemisphere - is "on notice" that the U.S. is willing to inflict maximal damage on their economies over even the most minor of disagreements.

We'll be reaping the consequences of this little stunt for many, many years - but at least we can use military instead of civilian aircraft now, and Trump's supporters can feel satisfied about how our disproportionate threat cowed a putative ally into being afraid of us.
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