Uh.. just so we're clear, Schindler in the movie and novel is a work of fiction, written in the 1980s by an Australian novelist.
The 'historical' Schindler was most definitely an enthusiastic Nazi.. Being a member of the separatist precursor to the Nazi party from afar (while he lived in Czechoslovakia), and then a member of the Nazi party when he moved to Germany after helping the Nazis invade and occupy Czechoslovakia. He worked as an intelligence agent for the Nazi party before and during the war, and there is no doubt that the work he did caused many thousands of deaths. He was then a war profiteer, using cheap Warsaw ghetto laborers in his freshly-purchased factories, which were confiscated from Jews.. He had absolutely no goals beyond self-service and Nazi ideals before finally growing a conscience circa 1942 once he realized the extreme brutality that was going on, and worked to protect (and add to) his cheap laborers.
In short, he's a complicated person.. most definitely a Nazi leading into and during most of the war, and probably a pretty terrible example.
They wrote unironically, about a man with a well-documented history of hosting a tapeworm that damaged parts of his brain, due to eating poorly sourced and poorly prepared pork.
Many of them have invested heavily into AI and are panicking that it's not going to pay off soon, or perhaps ever.
So they push it even harder hoping their bet will somehow turn around and they won't have to take the hit to their stock options or reputations.
People often think CEOs and upper management attained their positions because they are experts in the field and savvy at their jobs, but many of them have just failed upwards with a high appetite for risk-taking and low ethical standards - they're often actually shockingly unskilled idiots. 'Trumps', if you will.
Same with Russia, at odds geopolitically - in constant proxy wars across the world.
And yet.. President Krasnov has repeatedly praised president Putin, given him favourable deals (abandoning the Kurds, pausing sanctions around Ukraine, removing sanctions imposed post-Crimea annexation, holding off on using very powerful financial sanctions available to directly squeeze Russia's plutocrats and Putin).
Not sure your theory that a country being at odds geopolitically means shit when Trump is president and the Republicans in the house and senate largely enable/encourage him.
FYI US soldiers involved in illegal orders in the USA are almost never court-martialed or even put on trial. The only one I can think of actually being convicted is the Mai Lai massacre way back in 1968. The US has become consistently more brazen in its flaunting of international law regarding war crimes and any policing of its armed forces through subsequent administrations since.
In fact its very rare for US troops or even military contractors brazenly ignoring orders and committing war crimes to even be put on trial, let alone be convicted. The most recent incident I can think of is the four Blackwater contractors during 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' that massacred 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians and injured 20 in Baghdad city. There was such overwhelming evidence in the case that they were convicted by a US court of murder (one member) and manslaughter (the other three) in 2014.
Even that was an unacceptable level of accountability for the Republicans, so Trump gave them all presidential pardons in his first term in 2020.
GW Bush? Not sure what your point is. The Taliban didn't break the US invasion, the US left in a hurry with no exit plan and left a power vacuum which the Taliban quickly filled.
Arguable the Afghanistan war would have achieved anything 'net positive' even if the US had carefully slowly exited as they did (somewhat) from Iraq.
So, wait.. pay for search, which we need you logged in for and 'we swear is private bro, honest - but oh hey, if you want a search that's definitely actually private and we promise it (harder)', pay them more for a Professional/Ultimate/Team plan to unlock Privacy Pass access .. that is uhh, a fresh red flag.
Further, you can't access Privacy Pass (PP) searches via their standard search engine page.. you can only access it by installing and using their closed source browser, or their closed source Android app, or their closed source browser extension.. So again its just 'trust me bro' but you're paying them more, and each of the technologies they require you use to access the Privacy Pass can theoretically track all of your data in far more detail than a search engine alone? Mate, from my perspective it's privacy red flags all the way down.
I mean I get it, how do you have a premium search engine that your users pay for to avoid ads, while also identifying that they've paid, while guaranteeing their anonymity/privacy? That's a tricky thing to solve, but the way they've opted to solve is arguably even more suspicious. Open source client code (at least) to validate the server service could not be using the PP tokens to link to a specific user would be a right way.
Google Ads allows ad-buyers to pay a little more to target the demographics their ads get shown to, the more granular the more expensive.
So these scammy fake virus bastards just pay to be advertised to 'over 60s', 'ads trigger for keyword: antivirus / virus' and geographical target to countries with a wealthy boomer class like USA, UK, Australia, etc.. Then wait for the clicks on their scam to come flowing in.
The remedy for piracy should never be punitive on the consumer, or it does exactly what happened to you. Even more ironic your story is probably encouraging others to pirate rather than have a discouraging effect on the market by 'making an example of you'.
They thought, "ah shit, he's not tall enough - grab that bible, we can boost him up higher."
Yes, really.
The USA was far too kind to the Confederate states post-war. The racism has been allowed to fester - and in many cases thrive ever since.