North Korea Successfully Extorts… Again
Once again, North Korea has threatened people outside of its borders with nuclear death, and in exchange, received treasures and booty. Where do these rewards come from? You and I– taxes that are STOLEN/EXTORTED from us to pay this dictator to NOT kill us. Why would anyone doubt that this scenario will play out again in 5-10 years when North Korea wants more “aid”? We’ve already seen several rounds of this. Why would anyone believe that other aspiring dictators in the world are not adding this to their playbooks?
Socialism and all forms of slavery government collapse if left alone. Humans are not very inspired to work for brother love (in spite of what Jesus or Kant or Marx tells you), and central economic planning is no match for large numbers of distributed INDIVIDUALS solving economic problems. No economic system except the free-market (laissez-faire) capitalism is sustainable for very long.
This is one reason why dictators tend to threaten others. Free people living by voluntary free trade (capitalism) generally have no need to steal from others. Dictators must invade/threaten/kill in order to keep their regimes from collapsing.
However, the free world should have known better than to feed the fire. So instead of some military clean up of North Korea that would end this once and for all, we’re now feeding and aiding the very regime that would/will kill us. In the next round, they’ll already have the nukes they developed this round if they haven’t already sold them to some doomsday cult.
Is this justice, or even sanity? Shame on the leaders of the free world.