plenty of other countries

North Korea

Which ones were a small island country that had a massively more powerful hostile neighbour looking right over their shoulder when developing their nuclear weapons?

Taiwan trying to develop nuclear weapons would be the fastest way to get themselves invaded. China would put a stop to it before it they could even say “nuclear deterrent”.

China simply waits and maintains its current policy until pro-unification sentiment in Taiwan grows large enough. The balance of power in the Pacific is shifting away from the US and before this century is out they will no longer be able to offer security guarantees.

If you have an inherent bias against a country, of course you’re going to side with the people who leave as opposed to the many thousands more who don’t.

It goes back to the same point; you can’t tell them what sucks and what doesn’t. Of course it sucks if liberal democracy is the standard by which you determine good or bad. North Koreans might think western countries suck to live in because they have so much more money and still have people living on the streets and hungry kids.

Michael Palin did a great documentary on North Korea that I watched some years ago. It wasn’t completely without bias but I thought he did a pretty good job. He allowed the people to speak and give their own first hand opinions as actual residents of NK.

Something that stuck with me was one of his guides, a young woman, talking about how people in NK don’t necessarily have the same values as people in the west. We think they’re oppressed, that they want the same western style liberal democracy as us, and that they are all brainwashed so they couldn’t possibly be giving their own opinions. We like to think they’re wrong about everything and that we’re right.

NK isn’t a utopia. Nowhere is. But it’s not for us to tell them what way they should live.

“X” is just Stormfront with more mainstream appeal.

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