Pete Sessions’s occupied Cyprus junket bolsters dictators, undermines peace

Imagine if a sitting United States congressman flew directly into Russia-occupied Donetsk at the invitation of companies strip-mining its coal, exporting its timber, and running captured Ukrainian factories into the ground. Or, if at the invitation of Chinese businessmen, he visited Filipino islands China occupies in the South China Sea in violation of international court rulings and met exclusively with local Chinese officials transplanted onto the islands while dining on fish poached from Filipino waters.