That man was a disaster! Western civilizations downfall is partly this mans fault.
The more I think about it, the more I cannot find a single modern nightmare problem that Richard Nixon did not have a gigantic hand in. Although I do agree, Churchhill is a huge racist imperialist dick.
Well, there are worse leaders:
the west used and screwed these guys too... hence the hermit(ness)
They were the ones that invaded the south and their society is so hell bent on staying closed to outside information, they constantly blame their ills on an imperial west which we are. They'd be in even worse shape w/o their markets where smugglers bring in foreign products allowing the matriarchs to put food on the table through sales.
Oh yeah they are a mess now, and have been full of shit for sometime...not denying that... it is dark..
But....the history is not as simple as you may think though.... if you look at the history we (the west) used the Koreans as bargaining chips first with the Japanese and then with the Russians... the consequences were dire for the people of korea, and did not address
their needs for liberty or democracy, and infact the people the west supported were the very people that the koreans themselves needed rid off... but the pay off for the west was too great and we betrayed the people of korea , and then the people of korea that helped fight the japanese and then we diddled them a second time with the russians, and that turned into what was in reality really another front for the
proxy war in the cold war between the US and the Ruskis. So really it was more the Russians and Chinese that did the invading of the south, and the south was never really made up of or ruled by people that had the best interests of the koreans, but actually the Japanese..who still influence the south... basically the place was used as a pawn with zero regard for the people that actually lived there, and the people ,particularly of the north paid dire dire dire consequences...by the millions, and the misery still continues today.... I do not think there is a lot of trust floating around that part of the world, and they are certainly messed up, but the route that got us to here today is far from being blameless on the "wests" part (edit:nor the Japanese, the Russians, or even the Chinese, all of them have just used and abused both s and n korea) nor as obscure and hard to understand as some make out... history has repeated itself over and over again in that betrayals on this level, from the british, the french, the americans etc , has caused severe humanitarian crisis and long lasting political upheaval and divisions, that were considered at the time a fair price to pay to achieve the outcomes that were desired.. often however history has infact proven that those considerations were short sighted and highly selfish... and the reactions of the politicians that have followed over the decades has failed to address or acknowledge, or make any attempt at mitigating any problems... far from it.. now these places, we pour more oil onto the fire and every now and then wheel them out as the boogie men, the evil wrongdoers, the axis of evil etc etc.. Much like human interference with natural ecosystems there are ramifications and consequences..... these
consequences and causes have been , and still are generally swiped under the carpet.
