CamaradaD

He looks oddly cuddly.

To put it in a very venal metaphor: Canada apologizing for doing it again is just like my father's father apologizing to him and my grandmother every time he got drunk and hit them - only to do it again.

Glad to see you also made this distinction. Still, it saddens me when I see victims of propaganda siding with their oppressors - and a lot of them are so deep in denial they simply do not accept any contrarian facts... but I digress.

However, to a point, I think the elites have started to believe their own propaganda.

This kind of mental gymnastics and denial reminds me of the Bloggs couple from the movie When The Wind Blows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPIdRJlzERo&ab_channel=Myvoinar

I'm about to marry one. At least he doesn't lean to the right, even if he has some awful misconceptions about great many things.

Sem problemas, camarada ^^

I didn't quite mean selling, but learning how to make what we need in-house without relying on others - something DPRK and Iran did. Iran specially has developed a tank named Zulfiqar that's a lot like the EE-T1.

But you're right; we'd need a socialist government for any such events to develop. And for closer ties with the rest of the South.

There is a documentary named "Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seul", about the DPRK "defectors" that regretted their decisions. It was on youtube last year, but I do not know if it is still there.

It is useful to pretend to be one of them - or at least an "initiate" in their ways.

If they shun you, then they risk looking like they'll be driving people "to the enemy." If they try to explain, they'll sooner or later admit to being bullshitting.

A better one would be “there’s no proof of that, they weren’t, but don’t try and derail the conversation, stay on topic.”

Their most probable answer would be "ooooh, are you trying to deny it?"

In this case, pretend to be a noob with your views akin to theirs. Say something like "fuck no, but I need some proof to smeat at my redfash friend/coworker/whatever's face!"

And watch them try to produce it.

No wonder the gringos did all they could to sabotage Engesa. Nowadays, it'd likely work better - if they had a partnership with another bigger power like Pakistan or India did with China and Russia, respectively. Or a government that's actually interested in self-preservation like the DPRK or Iran.