Honestly, I consider the CEO of JP Morgan a bigger existential threat to humankind than any of those places.
Iran and NK? Agreed.
Russia (Putin et al)? They’re on the same level, to be honest. Putin literally conducted false flag “terrorist” bombings in a series of apartment buildings across Russia, and one of the teams was even caught (the FSB, of course, swept it under the rug. The FSB is the successor to the KGB. Putin was a Lt Col. in the KGB before turning to “politics”). His campaign promises to crack down on the perpetrators were a major part of what helped him clinch his initial hold on the Russian presidency.
That’s fair, but consider how much banks empower Putin by continuing to prop up the petrodollar which helps keep the Russian economy afloat.
Then consider how much these c-suite ghouls get a hard on for LLMs and AI and how much those muddy the waters of what is actually real, factual information and contributes to disinformation and misinformation on the web.
Maybe some would consider bigger a stretch, but I don’t.
Putin can go get fucked in the ear though.
Oh, I agree.
But at the same time, the CEO of JPM isn’t conducting an unprovoked genocidal invasion of a neighboring country.
They’re both clearly very fucking evil, but in different ways.
Russia, Iran, North Korea
Ehhh.
I mean, North Korea doesn’t have the resources to do much most of the time. Yeah, they’re well-positioned for this conflict, because they’ve spent a relatively-high chunk of resources they do have on artillery and maintained that over time, built a stockpile. Artillery is a bottleneck on Russia in Ukraine. So they’re potentially a factor in Russia’s invasion in Ukraine.
But they just don’t have the ability to change much in the world, most of the time.
Not that Iran or Russia are exactly in prime condition either, but they aren’t at the kind of level where feeding the population is regularly a problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea
Per capita GDP: $640
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
Per capita GDP: $5,310
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
Per capita GDP: $14,391
Big difference between those.
Any resources they want to spend on fighting with other countries needs to come out of that, and they have some basic costs like feeding their population that they have to cover before the option to do other things with remaining resources comes up.
