Iran vs Real Threats
These are very interesting times.

What's happening in Iran is totally interesting. It's either the cracks in the wall of the establishment, or else the birth pains of a genuine democracy being born (just one that, in Round One, a little less than half the people are unhappy with: So yeah, like America these last three elections, just with more rioting). It'll be interesting to see how things shake out, and hopefully the UN and the US can offer some pillars of support as the fires burn.

But I'm much more interested in what's going on in North Korea.

War is a horrible state of affairs, but these days it seems an inevitability with North Korea.

Everyone's basically just waiting for North Korea to make the one move that is so ridiculously retarded that China would simply look the other way while someone spanked them. Like firing nukes at the US or Japan. Watching China and Russia's reaction, it looks like they're slowly backing away from the blustering tantrum child these days.

The regime looks to be more and more out of control, so it may only be a matter of time before someone on the inner council decides that it's time to go out in a blaze of glory. Whether it's the US that makes the move, or Japan, it's gonna get messy.
Well, Japan cannot move until the Koreans outright attack them, but again with the whole, "Good morning! We fired live missiles over your island last night to test our guidance system, but no harm, cause we missed. Tee hee" shit that's been going on for the last ten years, plus now nuclear testing, again it'll just take one bombing, one ship sinking to set off a powder keg.

Aaanyway, North Korea's been on my mind recently. Been also watching a lot of international documentaries about the state of that dictatorship these days as well, crazy shit.

But yeah, interesting times.

-Andy