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[blackhawks]

Also, you can barely see Kim's country from space at night. Hey, who left the lights on in my palace?!


New Space Station Photos Show North Korea at Night, Cloaked in Darkness

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/140226-north-korea-satellite-photos-darkness-energy

North Korea's isolation is visible in new satellite photos that show the energy-bankrupt country at night.

Since the mid-1990s, when fuel stopped flowing from the defunct Soviet Union to North Korea, the famously hermetic country has descended into darkness.

Newly released photos taken from the International Space Station last month reveal just how energy bankrupt North Korea has become. The photos, and a time-lapse video of the region, show the country as almost completely black, in contrast to the bright lights of neighbors like South Korea and Japan. (See related, "North Korea: Nuclear Ambition, Power Shortage.")

In South Korea, each person consumes 10,162 kilowatt hours of power a year. North Koreans each use just 739. Other than several small spots of light, including the brightly illuminated capital of Pyongyang, the country just about blends in with the surrounding black ocean.

[fuagf]

And that is one other reason the US deterrence response to Putin has not been as successful as some hoped at the time. The American people don't want American troops on the ground in war. Nor do Europeans want their people on the ground in an overseas war. That's one reason the West dropped Afghanistan. And that's one of the reasons successive American presidents including Trump and Biden have not been more forceful against Putin. I know you don't want Trump elected again. If Biden took America into war with Russia Trump's chances of being elected again would rise dramatically, i think.