Thread by @DawsonSField

If you don't understand how charges in Zambia matter for swamp draining, you don't understand how the Swamp is filled with dirty money.
3rd World officials are bribed by middle men to get access to natural resources by multinational extractive industries: oil, mining, fish, etc.

https://twitter.com/FinCrimeEdu/status/1468361353521889280

These middle men then launder the money to politicians to protect the deals. Buying off the foreign policy establishment in the US & Europe to support policies to protect the 3rd world leaders who play ball & regime change those who do not.

Then they block criminal cases against the middle men, commodities companies, multinationals, NGOs & banks that enable it. Because their bought & paid foreign policy experts tell the politicians it is in the national interests to protect those 3rd World leaders & supply chains.

Politicians that rock the boat are then met with coordinated leak campaigns about how they are ignoring the advice of the "interagency consensus" on what to do about certain countries. State Dept., DOD, CIA & DHS are the agencies the Swamp rules to control foreign policy.

Zambia is the 8th largest producer of copper in the world.
Copper that is very valuable for a world full of electrical transmission & electronic devices...
Decades of corruption in who profited from that has allowed Western Swamp creatures to get rich while keeping Zambians poor.