2026-05-21 00:05 • 112 words

The poet Maya Angelou once said: When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

So when a state engages in abducting passengers of vessels in international waters, and one of its ministers publically taunts their hostages, it shows the true colours of that society. I have to dismiss their foreign minister, that stated this particular cabinet member were not the face of the nation. I think quite the contrary: it is the most honest expression one could imagine of a unabashedly ethno-nationalist, imperialist rouge state. It would be a folly to expect better from a coalition of war criminals, fascists, genocidal maniacs, and extremist religious nutjobs.