[T]he international community is waiting with bated breath to see what next the [U.S.] authorities will do to inadvertently expose Fifa’s blatant hypocrisy.
So, to succeed in the trough of graft, a politician must have a profusion of scandals, so many of them all at once such that they would eventually overwhelm the system’s capacity to cope.
Washington has demonstrated beyond any doubt that its rift with Europe is irreversible, by deliberately choosing to go to war against Iran without consulting its European allies.