This. Issue in the USA is that if you don't accept the money offered, you get primaried and they bribe money you would have gotten just goes to the campaign of your primary opponent.

Rinse and repeat. Unless, politicians band together and say "we need the full ROI of your project, and NONE of us will even talk to you unless we get half the profits, and you can't primary all of us at once"

A country with hypersonic missiles and the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons on the planet is only a threat inside its immediate proximity?

Bold of you to call young, underage children (including those as young as 6) escorts.

The correct way of putting it is so old rich suited men can engage in pedophilia.

Also, the amount of oil spilling into such a small area can't be good for the environment, can't be good for local marine life (if there is any), etc....

>Let's see how creative the banks will get to attempt to escape this conundrum.

They don't need to get creative, they just need to buy congress or the administration. Same as they've done every time things get messy.

And you know what? It works every time.