Civilisation Re-Imperilled

Supporters of security and defenders of deterrence have reacted with horror to the mutual defence pact between Russia and North Korea, two of the many nations for which legitimate security concerns are by definition oxymoronic. Like Iran's nuclear programme, North Korea's is self-evidently not a deterrent, by virtue of its enemies' eminently rational refusal to be deterred; and the fiend Putin's citing of North Korea's fictitious right to defend itself is self-evidently a crude parody of the more virtuous claims currently being shrieked from the rooftops of democracy with regard to the Righteous State. Putin's remarks are all the more irresponsible given the Righteous State's purely moral assaults against the Lebanese and Palestinian Untermenschen, in contrast to North Korea's seventy-year history of unprovoked and genocidal attacks upon the hapless and cowering allies of NATO.