Quick dig into Theodore J Boutrous Jr
(Never Trumper lawyer)
https://www.wiki.ng/en/wiki/who-is-theodore-j-boutrous-jr-everything-to-know-about-the-partner-at-gibson-dunn-659705
https://abovethelaw.com/tag/ted-boutrous/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/sanction-threat-looms-facebook-gibson-dunn-privacy-class-action-2022-02-14/
When China has to tell you to calm your tits…
China blasts ‘smokescreen of war’
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, "“the credibility of the US intelligence community has been tested on many occasions, including Iraq and Ukraine.”
“I would like to stress once again that in seeking a political resolution of the Ukraine issue, nobody should put up a smokescreen of war and use it as leverage, or threaten others with sanctions and pressure, still less resort to the means of inciting bloc confrontation,”
https://www.rt.com/russia/549882-china-blasts-smokescreen-war/
China Wants to Buy 100 Million Metric Tons of Coal from Russia
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/02/19/china-wants-to-buy-100-million-metric-tons-of-coal-from-russia/
EU chief: Russia could be cut off from markets, tech goods
“The Kremlin’s dangerous thinking, which comes straight out of a dark past, may cost Russia a prosperous future,” von der Leyen said during the annual Munich Security Conference, where U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris also spoke.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-chief-russia-cut-off-markets-tech-goods-82999299
the term “act of war” means any act occurring in the course of— (A) declared war; (B) armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, between two or more nations; or (C) armed conflict between military forces of any origin;
https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=18-USC-1479682157-1415921654&term_occur=999&term_src=title:18:part:I:chapter:113B:section:2331
Power corrupts. That experiment proved it.
I heard that, also.