Kurt Vonnegut said “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective” and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out
Jimmy Carter in 2015 on the role of money in American politics: "It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery."
Only 1 in 500 people owns a gun in South Korea and they were able to stop a right wing government from taking power through military force in a matter of hours
The level of impunity is just unfathomable: the man is currently violating dozens of UN resolutions and is facing an arrest warrant by the ICJ.
Yet he goes to the UN headquarters and orders, *from there*, another egregious war crime.
The world is broken.