Ryuu96 said:
Brazil to America:
Fucking Lol at Rubio threatening Brazil. Upset at Brazil for doing what America should have done, Bolsonaro is a traitor to Brazil and attempted a coup, America being upset about him being punished for that says it all. Rubio on the other hand is such a snake, I can't wait for his apology "I'm actually centre" tour when Trump dies. |
And while this is going on, former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte is on trial at the ICC in The Hague for carrying out extrajudicial killings of people accused of being drug dealers. Duterte was another thug that Trump admired. Their bromance, however, cooled off when Duterte started cozying up to Xi Jinping, and so far Trump doesn't seem to be threatening The Hague.
Duterte's successor, Bongbong Marcos (son of the notorious Ferdinand Marcos and his equally notorious wife Imelda; his real name is Ferdinand Marcos Jr.), has reversed course and cozied up to the United States government again, with his family locked in a power struggle with the Dutertes. The Marcoses were harbored by the United States during their exile from the Philippines. They spent the subsequent 20 years completely whitewashing Ferdinand's 20-plus year regime, which started to collapse when Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. was assassinated in the Manila International Airport in 1983, successfully returning themselves to power. They're locked in a bitter power struggle with the Dutertes. Sara Duterte, Rodrigo's daughter, is the PH VP and recently escaped impeachment after she threatened to have Bongbong assassinated. I've always thought the Trumps were the American version of the Marcos family, with Trump being similarly kleptocratic and installing his kids in powerful positions to try and keep the regime going. If things really go south for Bongbong, I can see Trump similarly making threats on his behalf.
Fun fact: there's actually a law in the United States Code, passed during George W. Bush's administration, that potentially authorizes the U.S. government to go to war with the Netherlands if a U.S. official or any member of the U.S. military is ever brought to trial in the ICC.
