Did it fly or simply sink out of sight?
It doesn’t take much to get the civilized world excited. The ruling nutter from “North of 38” has fired another of his super high tech missiles into the ocean for the Nth time, while assuring the rest of us that he has launched a new satellite into orbit. Nobody else can see the bird, or hear the bird, but that’s his story and he’s sticking to it. Sad. So much effort to convince the western alliance that he has a big gun and he’ll use it if a) he doesn’t get some respect and b) it doesn’t fall into the water.
Of course, the reaction of the only country to have ever used the atomic answer is to present a plan for a brave new world where nobody has weapons that can really mess up your day. Instead, we’ll all play nicely together. This, on the tail end of a huge security conference in Europe that left the city of Strasbourg somewhat rattled. This, before another meeting of the Ineffective Security Council, where even more brave words of encouragement will be disseminated for our edification.
There are others who wonder if the satellite launch platform was actually “rattled” by one of those super secret spy toys we read about; one of those space-based shields. We’ll never know, because the resident nutter would never admit to anything like that. Nor would the remaining super power admit that their system actually was in place and working; that might bring a reproach from the Ineffective Security Council which would create circular logic, thus ending the world as we know it.
