Accountability in Europe and Asia gives hope to the people while American wrongdoing goes unpunished (1*)

Opinion and reporting by Mathew Carr*

Feb. 19-20, 2026 (London) — The arrest of former Prince Andrew of Britain Thursday provides some hope that people power is not quite dead.

In South Korea, former leader Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison after a failed attempt to impose martial law on that country’s people. A former leader of Norway was also arrested.

The sentence in Asia marks one of the most consequential legal rulings in global history because it will deter other national leaders who think they can override the interests of voters they govern.

In the USA, though, we’ve seen a few sad resignations and little accountability for those hundreds of insider traders and child/women abusers linked to Epstein and other corruption scandals and crimes.

That’s extremely disappointing.

Donald Trump is proving to be one of the most unethical and self serving leaders in history and, unfortunately, he’s “leading” earth’s richest nation ever.

His continued drip feed of Epstein documents in a way that’s clearly against the law because it had to be done by Dec. 19, 2025 is a case in point.

It seems that Britain’s people, captured by the US as we are under PM Starmer, have been tested to “see what happens” when accountability finally strikes, before America follows suit, if it ever does. Also, to see what an elite can continue to get away with…and for how long?

Note President Barack Obama’s comments from the weekend (to be sure he’s one of the world’s most disappointing “leaders,” ever, too):