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O.T.: Interesting article in the New Yorker

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James Arthur recycling one of the sillier Republican claims.

Russian interference in US elections ought to be a big deal. If John Larkin can't see why he's even sillier than I thought (and he frequently posts re markably silly nonsense.

When Marilyn Albright negotiated with Kim's father, he got a lot of money, and kept on developing his nuclear weapons. It's possible that the Democrat s may remember that. Trump may know it too, but he's got such a high opinio n of his own expertise that he will discount it, in the same way he doesn't worry about the string of bankruptcies that followed his business deals.

The kind that you get from owning nuclear weapons and the ballistic missile s that can deliver them anywhere. Nothing generates the same amount of resp ect.

The prospect to two card-carrying psychopaths negotiating a mutually satisf actory deal aren't great. As a psychopath, Kim does seem to be ahead of Tru mp - Kim had his uncle assassinated, and Trump doesn't seem to have done in any of near relatives (or at least not that we've heard about).

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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This is wonderful: DT was at the Gridiron Dinner and commented on his upcoming meeting with Kim:

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 

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I think there are other reasons:

- SK knows fine who will suffer most if there is a war with NK. Self-preservation means it is much more important to them to avoid war being a reality, than to be friends with the US. In any war, SK would lose badly - whether the US was on their side or not.

- A good deal of the population of SK (and it is a democracy, so people's opinions count) want great unity of Korea.

- SK has such a strong economic hold on the US, from the electronics and computing industry, that they know they can do pretty much whatever they want and still have the USA on their side.

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Someone who starves and tortures millions of his countrymen, and executes allies and relatives in bizarre ways, and spends money on armies and missiles and nukes instead of electricity and food for his people, sure wants something.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 
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He wants what most people want - being able to keep on living the way he is used to.

Being a dictator at the top of very steep pecking order means that he does very well, and that there is steep decline in well-being as you move down the pecking order. His retirement plan is to die in office, because the way he runs the country means that lots of people (including his surviving nea r relatives) won't like him very much.

Technological change means that his situation isn't all that stable. The re gime that replaces him doesn't have to be all that much better - look at Pu tin - but it will be different. His chances of surviving such a change are about as good as Nicolae Ceau?escu's were in Romania. Wojciech Jaruzel ski in Polad was less of a shit, and survived the regime change - he died i n 2014 at the respectable age of 91.

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