Or maybe he thought that was the wisest thing to tell a group of 18-20somthings. Not a demographic known for cool deliberation or self preservation. There's a reason the draft starts at 18 but you can't rent a car til you're 25.
This. Not to mention china spilled a river of blood to keep n Korea Communist. Really the most realistic, best thing for the people of n Korea would be for China to topple the kim regime and set up a new government. Even Xi's bullshit would be preferable to whatever cult theocratic bs they've got going now.
I wonder if we framed it in bible talk we might get through to them? Like they're for sure guilty of gluttony and greed. I'm pretty sure there's something about God giving the world into the care of man too.
This. How many of your childhood friends survived to adulthood? How many famines have you lived through? Have you ever received modern medicine? Do you know anyone who's shit themselves to death (a surprisingly common cause of death back when)? Are you literate?
I'll not try and tell anyone things are peachy, because they're clearly not. But a lot of things are so so so much better than they used to be. Most of us lead lives that would make Pharos of old green with envy.
Take an inventory of plastic shit in your life. It's a lot. I don't think I could cut it out completely. I'm having a hard time imagining zero plastic grocery shopping. It's possible to be sure, but fucking everything comes in plastic.
Unless it was some third party testing it out for no other reason than a large crowd presented itself. Or a third party who just wants to fan the flames. Maybe both. I probably read too many spy novels.
I always thought the British got a slightly worse rap than they deserved there. When the Ottoman empire collapsed, things were chaotic to say the least. Rising nationalism in an area where ethnicities are all over the place. A pocket here, a few villages there. Political systems that had been in place for a thousand years disintegrating. Large groups of nomads who are notoriously difficult to fit into ordered nation states.
Huge demographic shifts underway. People tend to overlook just how much more crowded the world is now than it was in 1920. What worked in 1890 was a nonstarter in 1990.
I don't think any line on that map would have substantially changed things one way or another.
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We've entered into a new political system. Hard to say exactly what it is now, but I suspect we've had our last free and proper election.