Koreas In Conflict; The Taliban Flimflam

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Unless you’ve been living in a hole the last few days, you’ve heard about the two big pieces of international-conflict news: First, the artillery exchanges within the Korean Peninsula, and then the impostor Taliban. I’ll start with the Korean conflict and my take.

 

 

The news came without warning. I woke up and turned on my phone’s internet earlier this week, looking for the weather report. As it turns out my touchscreen needs to be recalibrated—I got the news. Surprise—in the top news section was the breaking news that North Korea had fired on South Korea. I had to read it twice before I believed it.

 

The sick technicality is that you have to remember: that particular war isn’t technically even over. There’s a truce, yes, and it’s been honored up to this point, but there was always that opening right there, the chance that something could happen.

 

It’s been called a ‘test’ in some stories, but the sad truth of it is, this is open hostile action. No matter how you slice it, this is a problem. An international problem. N-Ko’s military force is by no means a joke, and they’ve clearly got no problems against using it.

 

And all the open options are patently lousy. I don’t think there’s a way that this can end well. Recently, the nation has shown much disrespect for other world players, and this is the latest kick to the shins. I believe that this won’t stop until North Korea has managed to draw this out into a full-on war.

 

 

 

 

The Taliban Fakeout:

 

It was recently reported that the Taliban official that has been present at the recent peace talks—you remember, those peace talks that everyone said were going so well, where there was so much progress being made—is an impostor. Even more agitating, not only was he NOT an actual Taliban official, it turns out that he wasn’t even a particularly impressive individual.

 

The man was a shop clerk. Nobody in the Taliban has even heard of him.

 

He was being paid for his time and input, apparently by MI6. So this goes very high up.

 

The question is, how in the world was this able to get so far, when people at that level were looking at the situation? How did this happen?

 

Carelessness is not an excuse. The proper legwork needs to be done! You know what this makes all parties involved? A joke. That’s what it does.

 

It makes you wonder: just how much of what we’ve been done has been with impostors—with pretenders? Is there ANY real progress? It’s enough to make one sick.