It's a good thing that the anti-comprador discourse has find its way on this forum, too, out here in Eastern Europe they (the compradors, that is) occupy almost all positions of power, it's really tiring.

Back to the article, it only took me one click to find this info about its author [1]:

> Prior to his career in journalism, Binion worked as a contractor at NATO,

They're not even trying to hide it anymore, like in the good old days of the Paris Review.

[1] https://reason.com/people/billy-binion/