How is a country the size of New Jersey with less than 10 million people this powerful???
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
33 points (100.0% liked)
United States | News & Politics
9136 readers
328 users here now
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
It’s a long, sordid story. And to blame Israel is overly-reductive. It’s trans-national oligarchs. https://americanexception.com/book/
It's trans-national oligarchs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_capitalist_class
In February 2026, the partial release of the Epstein files by the United States Department of Justice drew significant attention across Western politics and media. The files demonstrated how "a heinous criminal [could be] given a free ride by the ruling class in which he dwelled, all because he had things to offer them: money, connections, sumptuous dinner parties, a private plane, a secluded island and, in some cases, sex." A panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said the files "suggested the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity."
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/oligarchic-sovereignty-technology-and-the-future-of-global-order/1E8CA6E567E56FB8CE93FC835A6ED60D
- https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/07/patterns-elites-who-conceal-their-assets-offshore
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9998034/
- https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/multilaterialism-era-global-oligarchy
- https://contra.schar.gmu.edu/the-oligarchs-grip-wealth-power-and-the-future-of-democracy/
Oh no this is so surprising and has never happened before