I think that framing says a lot about how they conceived this illegal and unprovoked attack--and how dangerously naive and foolish they are, what little thought they've given to the consequences, how comfortably they are with using U.S. troops for a whim, as though they were toy soldiers.

--as though this were some kind of hostile corporate takeover of a struggling company, where the measure of success is making the occupied entity more efficient and profitable (again, for whom?), and not an occupation of an independent and sovereign nation.

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

"My buddy Steve, who doesn't wash his ass and calls women 'females,' whose last steady job was cleaning the 7-Eleven hot dog machine and he got fired, can't get laid. Here's 4,000 words about why that's the fault of Susan, a constitutional lawyer/supermodel who rescues puppies in her spare time."

And the story there must be one matched at many other levels, in most other executive departments (esp. DoD, State, HHS, etc.).

...and the level of rot and corruption now endemic there is detailed here with horrid clarity. The article is helpful for bringing a range of similar stories of corruption together, rather than the steady drip we're used to.

Recognition as an Ethic of Living Beings
by @karenkyng.bsky.social

www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/57...