[Attention, Justin. Everyone is cheating and if you can't figure out who the patsy is in this global poker game, it is you.]
Because you can’t afford to play by the rules in the world of cutthroat geopolitics where there’s a real risk that a neighboring country will invade, butcher, murder, conquer your land, bomb the hell out of you, attack you with sophisticated cyber warfare, or use chemical, biological, or atomic bombs.
When you face existential threat and the leader of a country has to protect citizens from an adversary that bypasses the rules or doesn't even consider them as applicable to them, only the weak-minded and clueless shout “foul play.”
There is one language spoken among nations: power and deterrence. If your enemies can't make you think twice about the consequences of attacking you or going after you, they smell weakness and will proceed. You can cry until Judgment Day that this should not be happening to you because you're a nice person and surely something must be done, but the only realistic action is to never allow this to occur in the first place.
https://mailchi.mp/wealthresearchgroup/america-is-losing-ground-fast-540624
Sheila Gunn Reid discusses how the United Nations refused to allow Rebel News into its climate change conference in Brazil despite an email claiming Rebel News was accredited.
The United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil, is underway — and, in true UN fashion, it took all of ten minutes for the hypocrisy to hit us in the face.
For the first time in nine years, Rebel News was officially accredited to enter the conference grounds. We got the approval emails. We got our work visas. We flew half way around the world. We went to pick up our badges. Then the bureaucrats did what UN bureaucrats always do when a climate heretic gets too close: they found a problem.
Suddenly, our accreditation “didn’t allow” us inside the main venue — the pavilions, media rooms, and meeting halls packed with activists, diplomats, and 55,000 carbon-burning delegates who flew halfway around the world to lecture ordinary people about their energy use.
But somehow, we were ...