21 October 2018 - diplomatic immunity

Major national goals, like China’s goal to annex the South China Sea or North Korea’s goal to keep dry under a nuclear umbrella, carry important messages and are granted diplomatic immunity: They cannot be arrested by diplomacy. Yet actions other than diplomacy may backfire disastrously. Politicians, and those who seek to influence policy via the public advice-o-sphere, cannot admit it. War does not need to show the tip of its mast over the horizon before truth is a casualty.