Nato, Sweden, Vilnius, Ukraine etc.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't wanna take away from the pithiness of the statement...but.... I've never met a warlord that a pallet of usd couldn't convince...and I've met a couple.  Truth is, these people aren't principled...it's just that...historically, we've not put our best pitch forward.  We've got whole countries of people talking about the great satan this, and the great satan that...but it's all for wont of a dollar.

I’ve never met an actual warlord, but I’ve met a number of terrorist gang leaders and you’re right to the extent that they will take that pallet of cash. Then the unprincipled bit come to the fore and they’ll do whatever the fuck they want with your money. And it’s almost never what was promised.

In fact, I was once an innocent bystander [that’s my story and I’m sticking to it] when a RIRA cell leader took a substantial cash payment to scale back his group’s drug dealing. He used the money to expand his drug dealing.

To paraphrase Zaphod, I wouldn’t trust these people as far as I could comfortably spit a rat.

Boru