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Post #1206773

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CatBus
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
16-May-2018, 12:26 AM

I am kind of surprised. They usually require a few billion dollars in bribes and materials every decade or so in exchange for good behavior. They were due for a good round of diplomacy payoffs.

But then I guess if you refuse to pay $30,000 to a painter even after a judge orders you to do it, how can you be reasonably expected to scrape together a few billion to pay a guy to stop doing anything?

Then again, maybe the proffered bribe wasn’t big enough, in which case this is all just nuclear-age haggling. And the bribe not being big enough does fit these observations…

I realize my first paragraph is a little vague. “They” refers to the North Korean regime, not ours. I apologize for any confusion.