text:  you had the U.S. government making all sorts of allowances for Cold War allies that perpetrated all sorts of atrocities. Fast forward a couple of decades, you have a similar phenomenon playing out where the U.S. now is willing to make allowances for governments in the region that also perpetrate all kinds of atrocities that are guilty of all sorts of corruption because they have vowed to help the U.S. limit the spread of migration to the U.S. southern border. So there's a second iteration of that realpolitik.