It was at a political fundraiser; people there are supposed to be US citizens are have a green card (or be working as staff). So it was probably mainly the US oil companies, but they actively cooperate with overseas ones to push up prices.
To be fair, this is an investigation of a solicitation for a bribe which happened 15 days ago, and was reported by the Washington Post the morning after it happened.
The Senate can’t do charges — that takes the House impeaching him or the Justice Department filing criminal charges. A senate committee can however, gather evidence, and then pass it to the Justice Department with a recommendation that they prosecute. That’s what’s going on here.
Probably can’t do one new set of crimes per day (the Senate doesn’t move that fast) but it’s definitely happening.
If that’s what they started with, they managed to make significant edits, notably rescaling and moving the “unified third reich” text way to the left, while choosing to leave it in the final video.
That actually depends a lot on who wins the upcoming presidential election. It’s possible that with pressure, a 2nd-term Biden administration would actually move forward with one.
Once democracy is dead, his death won’t take us back to what we have today — we’ll end up with one of his kids or buddies running the show, and that can be even worse.
The rich have longer lifespans than the poor due to better access to medical care. I’m not going to count on it, especially when once you end democracy, you thend end up with the kids or friends of the dictator taking over after he dies, rather than a return to democracy.
Problem is that once you have a dictatorship, you don’t suddenly go back to elections and normal politics once the dictator dies — you get the dictator’s kid or friend running things.