Thread by @AliceAvizandum

Between this and Russia just deploying nerve gas in a British city and daring us to do anything about it, this is really shaping up to be The Age of the Chad in international intrigue

https://twitter.com/a_merat/status/1374670912432304130

‘Hey you work in a very tall office building, would be a shame if someone flew a plane into it’

old and busted: doing whatever the fuck you want but while wurbling about ‘muscular liberalism’ and a ‘rules-based international order’
new hotness: doing whatever the fuck you want

Chad. Chad. Chad

MINOR PRINCE DIPSHIT: haha all in good fun. classic banter. don’t worry about it, he didn’t mean that. let’s go
MABAHITH PSYCHO: yeah I’ll be right there
[beat]
MABAHITH PSYCHO: I was absolutely not joking I will have you murdered

we are all of us dissidents sliding down a buttery staircase into a brave new world of international relations

the really funny thing is that now the last real bastion of that kind of moderate, still bothering to lie about your human rights abuses, wurbling diplomacy thing is China

it’s gonna be truly wild if they get people in charge who get with the times and just go ‘what’s a Uighur, never heard of it son’ and clap you on both shoulders way too hard

by contrast the earliest adopter of the Chad approach has been Israel and they’ve profited immensely by it. just fuck around and do stuff. create Hamas, use it to destroy the PLO, then claim you can never negotiate with Hamas. know nobody believes you but refuse to give a fuck