Originally Posted by Warborn
The corporations that get the contracts are the ones who offer the best deal and grease the most palms...
...The US government doesn't give a fuck in any real sense because there's nothing in it for them.
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Let's imagine for a moment that a corporation greases
American palms. Let's imagine that those politicians then do favors for the Ugandan government and ask that American corporations get special treatment in return.
Maybe it's cheaper for these American corporations to do this than to out-bid Chinese companies... particularly when ensuring U.S. control of the region is an added long-term benefit for the U.S. government.
If you think that control of regional resources (energy in particular) isn't powerful, I suggest you take a look at Russia's influence over Eastern Europe.
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Epic grammar fails fixed