FaceDeer

Yeah, so? They were willing to play along as long as America was reasonably well behaved about it. That was the unspoken bargain of America’s Cold War and post-Cold War international influence - they got to have plenty of soft power, and in exchange they got to play out their World Police fantasy.

Now that’s going to be going away.

It’s been over a year, it’s reasonable to have forgotten some stuff.

<FaceDeer’s aide leans over and whispers briefly in his ear, which flicks up in surprise>

Just over a month? Ah. Well.

/r/conservative will always be a nest of Trump support because its moderators are its absolute kings. But the tighter they squeeze their fingers, the fewer genuine participants will stick around. Eventually that’ll start to actually cause problems.

Americans pretending to be Canadian while on vacation is a trope that extends beyond Russia.

You forgot Panama, too. And I suppose Gaza.

The U.S. are no longer the leaders of the free world.

Frankly, most of the time that was said it was said by Americans and the rest of us just smiled and nodded politely.

Huh. If the case involves classified materials, but any time a lawyer with clearance to work with those materials tries to represent him gets his clearance revoked, seems like that would be grounds to dismiss the charges. The right to representation is pretty foundational to the American legal system.