I’ll give you a different way of looking at them. I have a friend who travels a lot and he went to Mexico pre-Covid. He was shocked at how prevalent Coca Cola was down there. Talking to people, he found that the company had come in decades previous and convinced people to drink it instead of the “bad” water. Now the CIA has a foothold in a country, with a good business cover, and drugs and cartels grow at the same time.
I’ll give you a different way of looking at them. I have a friend who travels a lot and he went to Mexico pre-Covid. He was shocked at how prevalent Coca Cola was down there. Talking to people, he found that the company had come in decades previous and convinced people to drink it instead of the “bad” water. Now the CIA has a foothold in a country, with a good business cover, and drugs and cartels grow at the same time.