by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Things are too quiet. The last few months have been eerie in how peaceful and quiet they’ve been. Given that we’re just about due for a Once A Generation Event, there are any number of things that could throw everything up in the air in a rather abrupt fashion.
If you are old enough to remember 9/11, there was very much a Before and After feel to it. By the night of 9/11, everyone knew that nothing would be the same.
So, if you look around the world, there’s one place that is always on the cusp of fucking things up — the DPRK. Just today, the DPRK announced some sort of “problem’ with their COVID19 restrictions. This is not good.
But, even without that, the DPRK is ripe for something rather spectacular to happen. The DPRK is the geopolitical equivalent of, say, a zit that is always just about to get so infected that you have to go to the doctor. Anything that changes the current status quo with the DPRK would have massive, and I mean MASSIVE, implications for domestic politics in the United States.
In fact, I would say, in a sense a major regional war against the DPRK might be the only thing that could punt the current political crisis the United States is facing down the road a few more election cycles. It’s easy to imagine Democrats keeping Congress and the White House if Biden managed to guide us through a war against the DPRK.
But that would be a very, very risky thing to pin your hopes on. It’s too easy to imagine the DPRK freaking out and nuking a major city or two in the United States if there was any type of war between it and the US.
Anyway, the point is — don’t sleep on the DPRK. It might grow extremely unstable and problematic when we least expect it.
