Aren't the people of Iran and North Korea entitled to the same protection racket? "They, arguably, are more threatened. Yet that isn't how the global hierarchy of violence works." Trump, Netanyahu, and the nuclear conflict with Iran
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51