[chmod600]

You are implying that being an enemy of the US causes food shortages, rather than their own failed governmental policies.

That implication is pretty dubious. I'm sure sanctions (and whatever else the US does to its enemies) don't help. But the root of the problem is poor governance, which causes major problems, and often results in poor relations with the US due to humanitarian concerns.

The flaw in socialism/communism is that it requires huge amounts of government power, and that is always abused. There may be economic problems with socialism/communism too, but we never get to see it because the concentrated power causes a political meltdown too fast.

[wudangmonk]

Humanitarian concerns is the reason for poor relations with the U.S? I find it hard to believe that people actually believe this, there is such a thing as history and the following is a very common pattern: new government decides that deals with U.S companies is unfair and wants to change things, then a coup is attempted if successful the new government bows to work closely with its allies. If it fails then suddenly all the newspapers/news networks decide to tell us about the suffering of these people under the brutal dictatorship. Then sanctions from everyone, then the people really start to suffer and it ends with a new coup and new bows to allies.

This has happened sooo many times already using the same played out playbook. I just assume every single coup now is the same. Why do you think Turkey suddenly switched sides after a failed coup?.

We know its happening, we benefit from it happening. Who knows maybe it is better this way for everyone in the long run. You can't split the world into good and bad and always try to align yourself with the good because it can only be done if you are willing to fool yourself.

[ffgjgf1]

> Why do you think Turkey suddenly switched sides after a failed coup?.

Switched sides to whom? What are you talking about?