US sends Russian political asylum seekers back to Russia

It appears that US extradited Russian draft dodgers and asylum seekers to Egypt which immediately sent them on to Russia to be arrested on the spot. How far you have come, America, the land of broken promises:

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

If Trump were president in 1987, my dad would have been delivered back to communist Romania on the spot despite his legitimate claim for political asylum. The irony is that dad would have loved Trump and his humanoid hemorrhoids.

PS: The practice of sending back Russian draft dodgers started in 2023 or earlier, so it is not just the GOP that is reneging on its promises to the world’s downtrodden.

UN commission finds Israel committing genocide in Gaza

A UN Commission finds Israel guilty of genocide in Gaza. See also CNN, BBC, DW, AJ.

I am shocked, utterly shocked. Are any of Western countries that have not recognized the Palestinian state yet, going to do anything concrete besides issuing press releases and wagging their finger? I smell a new Middle East oil crisis on the horizon like the 1973 one, but with smaller repercussions worldwide due to increased oil production in non-aligned petronations.