He's also the kind of Dump Ape that is so avaricious that he looks at a map, and says "That's big, I want it." And I have heard multiple reports that is pretty much how it happened. Everything else is just rationalization. Also, Bolton is as much a scumbag as Trump.

Also Ghengis Don doesn't know what a Mercator Projection is, and if he'd heard of it, he wouldn't understand it. But, for reals, he's never heard of it.

A ghoul who will suffer no consequences, because while Europe is sending parade units to flex on the beaches of Qeqertarsuaq this asshole is allowed to continue operating Estée Lauder across the continent.

If he were Russian, he'd be drowning under sanctions right now. Instead, the guy gets to bait the US into the worst Intra-NATO conflict since Cyprus and pocket a windfall no questions asked.

Both threads of reasoning can be true simultaneously; the veracity of one doesn't negate the veracity of the other.

You mean greedy billionaires.

The unfortunate truth is that this doesn't end. That's why it's so exhausting. Even when they die there is always going to be some asshole ready to get rich carrying the torch on for them. That's also why when you hear anybody say something like child labor laws or other protections may have been necessary at one point, but now they just get in the way, it should be a red flag you're either talking to an idiot or an asshole attempting to destroy the progress the people that came before you fought very long and hard for.

The battle of Good vs Evil doesn't end. Ever. It's been going on long before anybody currently on earth was ever born, and it will continue long after we all die. That's why no matter what happens, no matter how many millennia pass, if there is one piece of advice we should make abundantly clear for all future generations:

Humanity is not now, has not ever been, and will not ever be "too advanced" to exploit or be exploited.

Your legal protections, rights, and liberties all exist for a very good reason. Learn them. Get them in writing. Teach them to others. Think about and discuss them often like you would anything else you truly cherish and appreciate. Never compromise the ones you have, and once you gain new ones, hold on to them, and refuse to let them go, no matter how "unnecessary or burdensome" anyone tries to convince you they have become in "modern" society.

Even if the oligarchs end up managing to wipe most of us out, or send society back to the dark ages, chisel that shit on the walls of caves. Maybe someday, we won't have to keep re-learning the same obvious lesson over and over again.