In this case, too, all those responsible will get off scot-free. This case demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that the U.S. legal system is so corrupt that it not only fails to serve its purpose but, on the contrary, is systematically exploited to enable the most serious crimes in the first place.

The Epstein case is just one particularly repugnant example of this, as the regime’s blatant enrichment through corruption and its countless crimes also make abundantly clear.

Nothing will change in this regard until U.S. citizens rise up and demand justice.

Because China can use international law to its advantage. After all, the U.S. is blackmailing its own allies and openly threatening NATO with another war of aggression against one of its founding members. It wouldn’t be unwise to join forces and impose sanctions on the U.S. together in order to strengthen ones own negotiating position. I mean everyone knows what “Taco” means by now.

Sanctions don’t even require the UN, as the example of Russia shows - a country that also holds a veto right in the UN and is a permanent member of the Security Council. Yet they do face sanctions for their war of aggression they wage against Ukraine in violation of international law - the war the US is waging against Iran is just as unlawful under international law, and so was the previous abduction of Venezuelan head of state Maduro.

This time, the US stands alone in its violation of international law - except for Israel, which is committing genocide and should have been excluded from the international community long ago.

In short: International law plays into China’s hands, especially since the US, along with its allies, is committing such horrific war crimes. Bombing hospitals and schools makes it abundantly clear what monsters they are and how dangerous such psychopaths are to the world.

On top of that, this war is paralyzing nearly 20% of global oil trade. It is by no means only China that is affected.

I don’t think China will be so incredibly foolish as to actively intervene in this war, which violates international law.

What they could certainly do, however, is use their influence to impose sanctions on the US - and just how disastrous that would be has already been demonstrated by the embarrassing saga of tariffs that led to such a spectacular failure for the U.S. In doing so, China would be completely in the right. In fact, all countries whose ships are being held up by the US’s illegal war should join in, because the blockade of trade routes is also a clear violation of international law.

So I think it will turn out the same way it has so many times before: China will once again benefit from the hubris of this absurd U.S. regime.

Well, it’s hardly surprising that such propaganda has been successful, especially since it contains more truth than most U.S. media outlets dare to publish these days.

That really worked out great…

Iran chose ‘not to accept our terms’, Vance says after negotiations

That much is clear. It’s just the modus operandi of this criminal regime to use a ceasefire as a pretext to gain an advantage. Israel has been doing the same thing all along for a long time.

This highlights two things:

1. Nothing is sacred to these people, and they don’t care about international law either.

2. Agreements with the U.S. are impossible, since the regime and its allies will never abide by them.

Thus, diplomacy is impossible from the outset.

That doesn’t make the U.S. look good at all, but its psychotic leader doesn’t care, because he’s clearly not interested in the well-being of U.S. citizens, nor does he care that thousands upon thousands of people are dying in Iran.

So the U.S. is bragging about having sailed through the Strait of Hormuz while peace negotiations were underway - and then they wonder why Iran is threatening them - and why the peace negotiations are failing? Seriously?

Hey, we’ve got social media and all that now. The memes and all the valuable info from whoever will surely take care of it.

I’m afraid there is no business model that can finance quality journalism. We are currently seeing the consequences of this.

Man, I only watched that for thirty seconds and had to stop right away because the orange one is such a moron:

Many, many, many years ago - hundreds of millions of years ago - people were doing business and they traded in rocks and stones and other things…

Nope, I’m out…

Edit: If only I’d read the previous comment … I missed it.

Ah, yes, that’s right.

canyon.mid is also a real classic, even if it’s not quite as funky.

He hides the pain for all of us.

Well, I guess you can’t expect someone like this moron to know the tale “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”

So he just keeps crying…

Another perspective of presumably the same event by Josh Kirby…

/c/showerthoughts also has a “no politics” rule, which means that many topics are off-limits - and since this rule is worded very vaguely, the admins decide at their own discretion which topics are allowed.

I couldn’t agree more, especially since, for anyone not from the US, even the most moderate White House posts are so utterly absurd that these days it’s really hard to tell the difference between satire and real-life clown show.

I can assure you that everyone is trying their best to adjust somehow, but it’s really hard given this level of absurdity.

Noice!

Because they are all the same kind of people, and age doesn’t really matter in itself - most of the people at the top are just white and old men because the system was set up by those very people.

And that is precisely the problem: this system of endless greed propels ruthless psychopaths to the top. It is sold as a performance-based society, even though performance has absolutely nothing to do with it - if that were the case, the problem wouldn’t exist in the first place.