Well, similar assholes with the same idea anyway.

The former Philippine president is the first former leader from Asia to face charges at the International Criminal Court. Human rights groups say his violent crackdowns left up to 30,000 dead.

So glad someone picked up on my wee epigram & recognized the name of Stanislav Petrov, a mid-level officer in the Soviet Defense Forces who in 1983 quietly saved the world from nuclear war just by being good at his job & taking seriously his role as a civil servant--like many of those fired by DOGE.

It's worse than secession. The broligarchs want to destroy the nation-state system that's organized the world for ~400yrs & rule as warlords over corporate empires.

This isn't new: the strategy has been perfected in offshore financial centers for ~50yrs. They're just bringing it onshore now.

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