Oh, it's aimed at "stopping terrorism" as they claim, then? Terrorism like what those Water Protectors and the Stansted 15 were doing and were convicted for? Give me a fucking break, you're just buying into the deceit like a dope.
Trusting former low-level KGB agents is a big no-no, but trusting former CIA directors like Bush Sr and Pompeo is fine because they happen to be American? Or Clapper, who fucking lied to everybody's face and is now on TV spewing whatever nonsense he spews?
Give me a fucking break. Of course KGB agents turned politicians can't be "trusted" and I don't "trust" them. I don't trust any politician, cops, or any of them authoritarians.
I'm also not some kind maniac who thinks its fine to lock up people who are literally attempting diplomacy out in the open, plastered all over social media, and following an education for it, but don't happen to know to fill out a form about doing it. She had a goddamn phone case with Putin on it, does she really need a form to declare herself and her overtly Russian accent as " a foreign agent acting on behalf of Russia"? Is it really justified to lock her up in isolation and strip search her repeatedly?
I also don't think Russians are "genetically predisposed to deceive" like people at the Pentagon seem to think they are. I have seen these kind of statements from various high-ranking individuals -- they have taught themselves to think the worst of people, just like those with xenophobia to Muslims or Mexicans.
It's nonsense to treat nations in such a manner if at the same time you're willing to deal with the Saudis in the way that the West deals with them.
Same with North Korea - KJU is just a typical neoliberal leader, just from a poorer country (poor = more oppression). You can draw the parallels between these statements and the stuff that goes in the West, can't you?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44290822
"Mostly, people criticise Kim Jong-un for being a businessman," she says, reflecting wider discontent.
"People say that he acts the same as us, but takes away our money.
"[They say] the little man uses his head to suck up money like a little vampire."
Fucking hell isn't that the same goddamn shit we've got going on? Except instead of one person, here in the West we've got a bunch of rich oligarchs who influence the (also rich) politicians to suck of wealth like the fucking vampires that they are. Thugs that steal tax money, homes, and pensions from people and use it to enrich themselves.
Chol Ho - not his real name - has also been speaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme in secret, and says there is dissent within the country, from people who "complain about their everyday lives".
"Sometimes people get caught by the state security department, the Bowibu, for saying the wrong things," he explains.
"People do suddenly disappear, but it hasn't happened here recently."
It is the "terror" of such camps that "keeps society going", according to Sun Hui.
She says "there's a lot of government captures" where she lives.
Chol Ho believes some people are sent there by the Bowibu because officials "make up stories for their own performance".
"They make people say that they were planning to go to China, and then report them," he says.
Try talking about Islamists in a positive way (they're just Salafists, which was born out of anti-western imperialism in the late 19th century - violence comes from oppression by imperialism, which is then tragically redirected by the US-Saudi alliance and spills over, as I said) and watch the fucking FBI hone in on you and try to bait you into terrorism. The above describes the same shit as what the FBI does when they find disenfranchised people: bait them into "terrorism" by providing them with weapons and a sympathetic ear. Or any of this shit:
https://www.alternet.org/drugs/15-people-rotting-prison-life-drug-crimes-didnt-hurt-anybody
Inb4 "but if we send them money or food, KJU and the elites just take it for themselves" -- you got universal healthcare yet over there? Or do the Senators and Representatives just dish out healthcare towards themselves despite the fact that they could afford to pay the ridiculous fees? Rich douchebags in charge always think of their own fat asses first.
It's not as if North Korea locks up a higher percentage of their own people than the United States (estimates I've seen claim about 0.5% of the population, compared to 0.7% in the US). I'm fairly certain that if North Korea had the kind of wealth that the United States, Europe and now China steal from the rest of the world then their living standards would be the same as well, which meant that stealing food won't get you locked up anymore.
Don't give me that "three generations" or "flak cannons" or "fed to the dogs" shit. That's pure propaganda, nothing else.
The enemy comes from within.