(09-29-2023, 11:16 AM)KingIngram052787 Wrote:

(09-29-2023, 09:52 AM)mikesez Wrote: North Korean leadership perceived that they would not gain anything from him as a hostage, nor would they gain anything by killing him. 
Why did they make that calculation? They certainly made a different calculation with Otto Warmbier.  I don't know.  They are opaque and dishonest.  There is nothing to say about it.  A bad politician would speculate that this has something to do with Biden's weakness (or strength) or whatever they want it to be.  But North Korea's decisions reflect on North Korea only.

Probably because here we make everything about race, so if they're perceived as not killing/torturing a POC, then they hope that reflects kindly based on the values that seem most important to us.

They obviously didn't take the Russian method to heart. They exchanged an anthem-kneeling black lesbian for a king's ransom because they knew those attributes are what is most valued by this administration. We know this because they left Paul Whelan to rot. 

And what did his genuflection to Putin's demands get us? Another U.S. hostage taken in Evan Gershkovich. 

The ENTIRE world sees the Biden administration as total pushovers. Especially when it comes to catering to racial and sexual minorities.

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