De facto pols love Damascus

When you can't see the handshake of trees from the forest of war crimes.

It’s riddle time! Scroll down for the answers. (And no peeking!)

1. What do Annalena Baerbock, Jean-Noël Barrot, and Abu Mohammed al-Golani have in common?¹

2. What do most conservative Muslim men and Orthodox Jewish men have in common?²

3. Which one in 2. would the Springer-led factory of news-adjacent clickbait widgets sooner brand as incompatible with “our values”?³

4. Which is the more urgent threat to the increasingly tenuous notion that “we uphold international rules”?⁴

   1. HE DIDN’T SHAKE HER HAND!!!!!!

   2. So those courts we made — you know, the ones to uphold international rules ever since Adolf showed us we could do with a few — well, we’d really prefer it if their work was more a suggestion we can opt into when it doesn’t make us feel awkward about it. Thanks much.

5. Where are women and girls more at risk?⁵

   1. In Annalena Baerbock’s palm.

   2. Due south of Tel Aviv.

1. A desire for democratic legitimacy. The way things are going, al-Golani has the best shot of actually getting there.

2. Both think women are, like, so totally…