The New Yellow Peril and The New Red Scare

So, this latest UN Security Council will stop North Korea from acquiring a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon that North Korea was already supposed to have. And to have been capable of launching all the way to these Islands from the Korean Peninsula. Presumably within 45 minutes.

In any case, having exhausted all other options to justify the domestic repression and international rampage that their proponents have always wanted anyway, we are supposed to have reverted to the factory default of blaming the Russians.

Unfortunately, though, the New Yellow Peril had not yet worked itself out before someone went and launched the New Red Scare. So we are having to go through a period of parallel running, like when there are changes to local government finance.

Other than Vladimir Putin, the declared candidates for the Russian Presidential Election of 18th March 2018 are Pavel Grudinin, of the totally unreconstructed Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and dear old Vladimir Zhirinovsky, of the hilariously, yet unamusingly, misnamed Liberal Democratic Party. If you need to do so, then do look up both him and it.

This is not about liking Putin. This is about liking the alternatives even less. The only alternatives that exist in actual fact.