You don’t agree with the concept of real politik?

I just view the upper class as just...the upper class

I don’t know what that means

Like,many rich people are Jews due to weird historical reasons

Like how Christians felt weird about handling money and banking and stuff so they would usually have Jews do it

Eh,I’m an idealist for the most part

Realpolitik, fun

I agree with it

To subject politics to the whim of emotion is a recipe for disaster

Realpolitik is only good in certain cases, other than that foreign policy should be based on ideology and religion.

I think occasionally you just have to do what needs to be done

But in general our political actions need to be ethically viable

Otherwise we might as well do anything

Why?

Why what?

Why should they be ethically viable?

Our actions must be ethical otherwise we will not be perceived as a nation with honor

If we allow ourselves to behave unethically

We shouldn’t have ethics at all

A nation without honor will eventually be like a Iran or North Korea

Uh...I agree with your conclusion I guess?

Just not your reasoning

Internally they’re ideologically strong but no one wants to do business with them unless they’re the enemy of my enemy type of thing

Now given Iran and North Korea are not the best nations but plenty of things can be cherry picked from their nation and society

Hmmmm

Tbh

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Kim Il-sung wasn't *that* bad

Better than all of his successors

None of them have been bad

How dare you imply such a thing

Back in the good ol USSR

Well

The occasionally good ol USSR

@Honey Beanger who's your favorite USSR leader

Gorbachev

Kim Il song the best

Gorbachev was a traitor

I contend that Lenin was the best leader

Stalin was sexiest though