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Kim Jong Un is not old (nor his sister). Putin was only 8 during the Cuban Missile Crisis so he only sees a caricature. I'm not sure a younger generation growi
by kurthr 5y ago
Kim Jong Un is not old (nor his sister). Putin was only 8 during the Cuban Missile Crisis so he only sees a caricature.
I'm not sure a younger generation growing up without fear of nuclear war is a safer thing. I suspect that most of the current heads of state being old and belligerant is correlation rather than causation.
Don't worry, there will be inexpensive automated drones to do the killing soon enough.
- woodruffw 5y agoKim Jong Un is a funny case. There's a reason we call North Korea the "hermit kingdom." Putin was a child during the missile crisis, but he cut his teeth in the KGB of the 70s and 80s. His mentors and leaders were, in all likelihood, veterans of the Great Patriotic War. (To be clear: I don't think that the risk of war ends with the deaths of these particular generations of leaders. But I do think we're seeing a particularly outmoded approach to war at the moment.)
- ThrowawayR2 5y ago> "(To be clear: I don't think that the risk of war ends with the deaths of these particular generations of leaders. But I do think we're seeing a particularly outmoded approach to war at the moment.)" It will still be older people calling the shots, since they have had time to accumulate power and rise in the ranks, but the risk of war increases with the elders of future generations because they have no direct experience or cultural memory of its horrors; "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."