Commentary
America the great slaps ICC right in its big, fat, whiny face
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a video address that the United States was sick and tired of the globalists at the International Criminal Court trying to steal away America’s sovereignty and, as such, was slapping sanctions on the entity. And then the ICC put out a release saying — blah, blah.
The way to AI superiority is with a superior CIA
If the deep state can spend years planting and investigating the mythological “Russia collusion” against an American president and MAGA citizens, just think of what it could accomplish by putting those same energies toward beating an actual U.S. adversary with an actual threat to U.S. interests.
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