Unworthy Foes

One of the major difficulties with being the master race, especially when uttering oracular threats to stir up a bit of rah-rah for World War III, is that official enemies are necessarily contradictory. They are existential threats, like the Palestinian civilians confronting the Middle East's sole nuclear power; but they are also bungling clowns, like the mad mullahs whose measured and proportionate responses to the Netanyahoo's efforts at starting a regional conflagration have recently made Iran such an international laughing-stock. Similarly, the deployment of North Korean troops in the Ukraine war has been characterised as both a sign of desperate weakness and a grave escalation; the latter primarily because the World Cop reserves the right to inflict apocalyptic punishment upon the Heathen Chinee should their ally misbehave unduly. Mere days later, Britain's leading liberal newspaper has felt obliged to balance out the stern pronouncements of the Secretary of State by rounding up a defector or two and producing an analysis which proclaims the North Korean contingent to be inexperienced, parasite-ridden, trained for the wrong terrain, farcically killable and, in stark contrast to the average NATO squaddie, quite possibly somewhat deceived as to the nature of the cause for which they fight. Clearly, a master race that feels threatened by so pitiful a rabble must be very masterful indeed.