Cowards and Liars

[T]he great powers court rising generations when they sense shifting power.

Naturally, when it comes to Trump, whether or not he would hold to an agreement is unknown.

Trump is not exactly a legal scholar. If he wanted to dispatch his gunboats here, he wouldn’t need a judicial pretext.

Israel’s spying activities have always been brushed under the carpet by compliant American politicians.

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.