Remarkably, it seems rogue actors – from totalitarian states like North Korea to terrorist groups like the Taliban, drug cartels like the Sinaloas, and ransomware extortionists like Darkside – see the mighty United States the way parasites see big grey whales.
Only this explains how it has become as normal for those actors to steal this country’s blood and treasure as it is natural for barnacles and lice to nest in the blubber of a grey whale. More to the point, the whale is the biggest fish in the sea; yet even the smallest one can pick on it with impunity. Alas, despite its size and power, the United States seem fated to be preyed upon, analogously.
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