Russia not chosen to lead Interpol

[TotallyOz]

Honestly, why is this a big news story?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46286959

[AdamSmith]

Because Russian deliberate election & other meddling to destabilize American and European democracies etc etc.

[MsGuy]

AS, that's a swing and a miss on your part.

There's no bureaucracy so capable of institutional insanity as an international bureaucracy. Remember when Kadaffy's Libya was made chair of the U.N. Commission On Human Rights?

The Big News  (see title of post) is that Interpol actually managed to avoid making a Putin stooge the world's top cop.

I'm guessing that it didn't hurt that (1) China just embarrassed Interpol by kidnapping and disappearing its last top cop and (2) Putin has taken to issuing international arrest on sight murder warrants for  Western critics. Maybe the first and maybe the second but the two together seems to have been just a bridge too far.

But just barely.

 

[Lucky]

MsGuy, that's not Adam Smith in the picture. Perhaps his date last night...

 

(I am joking if that needs to be said.)

[AdamSmith]

5 hours ago, MsGuy said:

I'm guessing that it didn't hurt that (1) China just embarrassed Interpol by kidnapping and disappearing its last top cop and (2) Putin has taken to issuing international arrest on sight murder warrants for  Western critics. Maybe the first and maybe the second but the two together seems to have been just a bridge too far.

But just barely.

Fair enough.

I just already miss Angela.

[MsGuy]

Well the way I heard it, Angela has engineered it where she doesn't resign (as Chancellor) for two more years. Seeing as how the Orange One thinks Estonia is somewhere down in the Balkans, that's probably all to the good.