SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Here is the business model, step by step. Step one: identify a resource. Oil. Copper. Bananas. Rubber. Tin. Uranium. Cobalt. Lithium. Rare earths. It doesn't matter what. What matters is that it's there and that you want access to it at favorable terms. Step two: identify the obstacle.

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Here is the business model, step by step.

Step one: identify a resource.

Oil. Copper. Bananas. Rubber. Tin. Uranium. Cobalt. Lithium. Rare earths.

It doesn't matter what. What matters is that it's there and that you want access to it at favorable terms.

Step two: identify the obstacle.

Usually it's a government that either controls the resource directly or represents a population that might eventually demand control of it.

Step three: find or manufacture a pretext.

Communism is traditional but not required.

Terrorism works.

Weapons of mass destruction.

Drug trafficking.

Human rights, occasionally, though this one requires a light touch given the record.

Step four: install the solution.

A compliant government, a military strongman, a "civil society" movement funded from abroad.

Whatever holds.

Whatever keeps the terms favorable.

Step five: name the whole operation after a value.

"Freedom." "Democracy." "Stability." "Human rights."

The name should be the opposite of what was done, because if the name matches the action, people ask questions.

Step six: repeat.

The model has been running continuously for over a century.

The receipts are in the National Archives.

The only question is whether you're willing to read them.