In 1967, a sociologist wrote that if the government wanted to control population, they could do so by squeezing consumers through taxation and inflation, by making housing scarce by limiting construction, forcing mothers and wives to work outside the home to offset the inadequacy of male wages and provide few childcare facilities, encouraging migration to cities by paying low wages in the country and providing few rural jobs, increasing city congestion by starving the transit system, and increase personal insecurity by encouraging conditions that produce unemployment.
Despite some changes, the Venezuelan regime is still the same authoritarian regime, just with a new dictator who is, at least for now, trying to give the Americans what they want.
The Ukraine war doesn’t have a normal frontline. It has two lines separated by a 13 mile gray zone where a small number of soldiers try to infiltrate and drones search and destroy.