Panini

…no, no they really aren’t. It takes a lifetime of propaganda to indoctrinate someone into thinking that way. There’s a reason most militaries have to work very, very hard to psychologically condition soldiers to actually pull the trigger with another human on the other end of the barrel: it’s deeply antithetical to standard human instincts. This shit is intentionally, specifically induced sociopathy.

They better keep on practicing, cause they’re not particularly good at it yet.

My body is a MACHINE that turns WATER into PISS

Mostly likely yes (insofar as a single bank can matter). When banks collapse it sets off a cascade of debt defaults which rapidly contracts the real money supply in an economy, since most actual wealth (and, in turn, the physical creation and transfer of goods, services, and labor that facilitates) is created via fractional reserve lending. This causes a recession. If it was only this bank, it probably wouldn’t be that huge of a deal for China more broadly. But it’s not only this bank, and it is a huge number of provincial pet banks all tied to the same development and speculation industry. There’s a reason economists have been sounding alarm bells. That’s not to say China doesn’t have the resources to deal with this and/or the fallout, but it is at least a problem to be dealt with.

On par, roughly. More prevelent sexual torture/rape, less prevelent mass demolition of homes/property, similar in many other ways, and similar severity of atrocity all things considered early on.

are these sovereign nations in danger?

This unironically makes me optimistic about this situation. The man seems to have the memory of a goldfish so this could, like, actually be a factor.