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More snark in the comments.
Incidentally, in what universe is Amanda Marcotte not a part of the mainstream media?
Obama was also close to lasting peace as well but the Korean President changed gears around an election. I don’t have the exact details from the Obama era, but families were being reunited and is wasn’t NK that ended the talks. Hell, I remember arguing about the Clinton peace talks with Caze on bb a year ago as he twisted history to justify the idea that the “Axis of Evil” speech was based on any sort of logic and not a military roadmap (that the government is still on with Iran still being the next target).
Korea is uniting because a freak accident and Trump will get a little credit for it - continuing to be insulted by political ideologues is a solid trade. Anyone with half a brain knows this is happening despite Trump and his cabinet anyways.
It’s not that the word is Russian, it’s that the word is communist. It’s why someone like Greenwald sound foolish speaking like the Cold War was in the past or that the War on Terror was on the past, they are basically the same thing in terms of the military and intelligence agencies manufacturing conflicts for profit. The reason we use words like gulags at all is because the Cold War never actually ended, it just got shuffled around a little.
The old Russian term is katorga…
Hey, remember MalwareTech? The guy who single-handedly (and almost accidentally) stopped the first wave of that attack?
A UK national, who came to the US for a cybersecurity conference, and got arrested by the FBI for all his good work, because someone else used a piece of software he wrote to commit a crime, and now that those charges don’t seem to be sticking, they’re piling on charges that shouldn’t count, either because they’re past the statute of limitations or purportedly took place while MT was a minor.
But sure. The US are the good guys.
Extremely unsurprising.
I’m not sure how hindsight will look on it, but Boucher nailed it.
The old USian term was Reservation.
