• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Don’t even know why that was even an option, anyway. NK isn’t ever going to cooperate with its “enemies” and will just continue to indoctrinate its population with propaganda.

    The only solution is a military invasion of NK. Always has been.

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      will just continue to indoctrinate its population with propaganda.

      Oh yes, definitely that doesn’t happen in any of those “civilized” western countries right? Nobody making up things like “North Koreans have no word for love” or “We push trains to work every day”.

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      The only solution is a military invasion of NK. Always has been.

      The US always could have not disrupted the planned elections and installed a military dictatorship that kept a lot of the Japanese colonial officers around and started mass killing Koreans. Then the democratic korea wouldn’t have had to try to liberate their country.

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        1 year ago

        Could’ve, would’ve, should’ve. The US has had a long and sordid history of downright fucked-up foreign policy decisions.

        But, bitching about it doesn’t really change the current situation. NK has a dictatorship with a enough military power that it still requires a decent army to overrun. Kim isn’t going to listen to any diplomacy, except when he can trick some diplomat to give him more power or image-building. At best, China might be able to cut off its funding and topple Kim’s little empire, but China has no interest in that.

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      They have nukes, my lemon. This has never be the solution.

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      I would argue that we are, as a planetary civilization, almost past the point where a war of that sort is even possible.

      On the other hand, if China were to ever shun NK, I would bet that their government would likely collapse in less than a decade.

      Sadly, China has a ton of reasons to want to prevent that, one of the bigger ones being the border with NK where many, many refugees would try to cross into China.

      I could however see, someday, China agreeing to a massive backroom deal on a scale that would be unprecedented:

      China abruptly works to ensure a complete collapse of the NK government, without any NK nuclear weapons either coming into play or any NK nuclear weapons going missing (except to China itself, if it wants them).

      And SK along with a good chunk of the Western world agrees to immediately conduct one of the largest humanitarian missions in history, to ensure that nobody is fleeing NK into China unless they have tons of assets and they want to avoid repercussions for their actions.

      There are, sadly, a lot of reasons why China wouldn’t want the western powers capable of pulling that off to have control of territory that close to China though.

      SK would be their safest bet, but SK doesn’t have the resources to pull of that kind of a humanitarian effort.

      And the chances that someone like the US wouldn’t take the chance to plop a military base in what is currently NK seems awfully slim.

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      1 year ago

      Your perspective being shared by bloodthirsty us officials is why the drpk has and is justified in having nukes

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          well the government is doing a pretty bad job at that considering it is run by the rich and poweful

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          Anarkiddies have and are fighting on the frontlines. Only issue is, it’s hard to remain anarchist when the people you’ve allied with are trying to execute you (26 July movement, for example)

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              There are examples of anarchists fighting by themselves, most notably the Free Territory of Ukraine (for the most part, though it did fight alongside the red army on multiple occasions) there’s also the AANES which isn’t inherently anarchist but does have a lot of it’s libertarian characteristics, there’s the zapatistas which you could argue that they are anarchists and I’d say they’re definitely fighting alone, and of course Revolutionary Catalonia, which created a (functional?) society while still facing the much stronger fascists to the west and a lot of internal repercussion from republicans/marxists.

              This is also ignoring the fact that most anarchists would rather fight for a lesser evil when possible instead of sitting around doing nothing.