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If this brings the western world down then good. Whatever happens, we cannot ignore it. This is what wealth in capitalists nations degenerates into.
well some people are resigning due to being named in the files except the people in the USA. i dont put much hope for USA, but other countries might be able to do it.
Because non capitalist, non Western nations don't do anything like this, right? Junko Furata, African child soldiers, South Asian sex trafficking rings, Khmer Rouge....need we go on?
I'm fucken sorry, who has the only known example of a global paedophile ring implicating nearly all of its leaders? This is fucking unprecendented. No need to take it personally unless you are a capitalist.
Most organized crime in every nation practices sex trafficking, rape, prostitution and slavery of one kind or another. From the Yakuza to the Mexican cartels. It is unprecedented, it's simply very visible. If you think Putin and his oligarchs or the Saudi royals, for example, don't have similar organized immorality, then you're naive. Nevermind past eras or horrors like imperial Japan, who stabbed babies in the womb, the Mongols whose torture and rape was historically prolific, the Aztecs human sacrifices, the list goes on and on. Oh and the world wide Catholic Church? The most prolific child sex abusers in known history?
The files do mention Putin, as being a deterrent to their operations in Russia. And they hated Xi and Castro. Seems like SOME leaders and powerful people are not sex trafficking pedos 🤷♂️
Good points. However a big difference here is that this organized debauchery and perversions is weaponized to blackmail the most powerful countries in the world into supporting fascists in a small little country to do unspeakable things, that is also exporting that fascism to those home countries.
So the blackmail angle, to ultimately destroy the liberal democracies that these countries are built on, makes it a little different.
None of those are global, and if the saudis are anywhere they're probably also in the files which would just make that part of the same capitalist carnal club. I don't see President Xi, or many non-US aligned leaders in here. Its not you or I, why are you so offended?
Competing networks, territorial splits. It's visible in the files that this is a global thing and we see only the tip of an iceberg with one example group
Nope, it’s very clear in the files they hated Xi, Castro and communism and spoke of them as explicit deterrents to their operations.
They had projects with Castro. Something in the seas. Asia is operated by a different network
That's... Also bad? Why are you bringing that up?
Because the claim seemed to be that the west, and capitalism, is somehow unique in its capacity for doing very shitty things. It is not. Horribleness is a human thing found everywhere humans are and is not caused by capitalism or Western societies.