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It's insane to me that we now have reports of North Korea intervening in Russia's invasion of and the response is so timid.

That's now two — or three, if you count Iran — autocratic states engaged in military conquest to quell a burgeoning liberal-democracy, with the rest of the world too paralysed by fear to prevent it.

This is a glimpse of how future decades are going to look. It's the great moral and liberal issue of our time. We'll be judged harshly for our failures now.

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@rhys seems autocracies sense opportunities now that democracies are no longer wanting to respond militarily to threats abroad; agreed, won’t end well

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@rhys Not sure what response you'd like to see. West quite clearly does not want to fight Putin directly. Yes, we should give more weapons... Yes, we should think about enforcing no-fly zone over Ukraine, for example. But I'm not sure we should be attacking North Korea.
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