I've been observing the actions of both Iran and North Korea for a couple of years now; but only just recently has North Korea really grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and violently thrown me into an uncomfortable chair to watch their deadly deeds unfold.
Iran, in my personal opinion, has always been a highly-developed nation with youth much like that of the Western world, and these protests over the recent election results has only further strengthened my opinion of them in their favor. It's their self-centered government that's been the problem everyone has been keeping a close watch on; if they aren't careful, someones going to stage a coup. If, for some reason, that fails, or never comes to bear in the first place, they may be facing possible United Nations and/or NATO involvement in their domestic affairs.
If this were the 1930's or '40's, I'm sure a genocide of Iranian youth would have occurred by now.
Probably the only thing holding the Iranian government and military back from doing so is the very existence of the United Nations, and the indisputable threat of military invasion if a genocide of that nature was to take place.
In my opinion, if the election results aren't either recounted, or a new election re-staged in its entirety, I urge the people of Iran to resist with every ounce of self-respect in their body, whether it be verbal resistance or physical; or even both.
North Korea has really taken the entire world by storm with all these nuclear tests; the entire population of that cooped-up country has been completely brainwashed into following their leader to the very death, despite all the pain and suffering he puts them through day by day.
I can't even picture a democratic, stable North Korea. At best, I see a reunified Korea with South Korea introducing the dominant ideology. If that were to happen, something that closely resembles the process of 'Denazification' (which was the process of repatriating the citizens of Germany whilst wiping their brains clean of the Nazi ideology following the Second World War) would need to be performed at quite a large extent.
Who knows, though? Maybe the citizens of North Korea are more ideologically resistant to their totalitarian government than we think.
The current civil unrest in China is something I haven't exactly been following to a very large extent, so forgive me if my information isn't as correct as it could be. To the best of my knowledge, theirs some sort of ethnic conflict occurring within China's borders, and I don't believe it's actually any resistance to the countries totalitarian communist regime.
Still, this conflict may well have the potential to spark another Chinese civil war, who knows?
It'd be nice to see some large-scale resistance to the Chinese communist regime, but the Chinese people seem pretty neutral on that subject.
Violence is still more then a stereotypical quality for Iraq, especially now with the withdrawal of the majority of American forces. I believe only about 100,000 American soldiers will remain stationed there by 2011 in a futile attempt to keep the peace.
I don't think we've heard the last of Iraq, though. I have a feeling a large civil war is on its way that may establish many other countries in place of Iraq (obviously based on ethnic and religious background).
Elsewhere, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted from power, kidnapped, and flown to Costa Rica where he was expected to remain in exile not to long ago; since then, he's returned and actually spoken to the President of the new provisional government, Roberto Micheletti, face to face. He has demanded that power be shifted back to him.
To the best of my knowledge, the justification for the coup was that Manuel was about to convene parliament and attempt to alter the Honduran Constitution.
I really don't know enough about that issue to draw my own definitive conclusion.
Anyways, that's my outlook on the world of July 2009, and I hope you found it interesting and informative.
Have a great summer!
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