Perhaps I’m cynical or pragmatic or simply a realist, but part of me thinks that the US and its businesses by proxy are able and willing to do business with hostile regimes to gain exposure to markets, capital, and personnel for intelligence purposes.
Wartime makes for strange bedfellows, for example, the collaboration between the US government and the Italian mafia during WW2:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381708
Perhaps I’m cynical or pragmatic or simply a realist, but part of me thinks that the US and its businesses by proxy are able and willing to do business with hostile regimes to gain exposure to markets, capital, and personnel for intelligence purposes.
Wartime makes for strange bedfellows, for example, the collaboration between the US government and the Italian mafia during WW2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_between_the_Uni...