\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n
\nI didn’t plan to talk about politics today; I’ve done so the last couple of posts, so was planning a fairly mundane post today about technology. As usual, I got up early, then started on my first pot of coffee for the day. I put on YouTube to find out what had happened over the weekend with the Iran negotiations, then started puttering away in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
\nMallen Baker, whose YouTube channel one can find here<\/a>, is one of my favourite news YouTubers. Listening to his recent upload, “Iran Negotiations Fail – Now Trump Is Really Stuck”<\/a>, I doubted my ears 40 seconds in. It’s not Mallen I was doubting; rather, the news he was relating seemed unbelievable: Apparently, as I understand it, an established writer (I won’t name them) in an established US newspaper, in a recent article, seems to suggest eliminating Iranian leadership until replacements emerge who will agree to a settlement Trump likes.(?!?!) I backed up the YouTube video, then listened again to make sure I was hearing it correctly. I enabled the captions. Still, I could barely believe it.<\/p>\n \nThat an article can be found wherein the idea is put forward that one country might dictate the leaders of another one, based on military force – it’s so absurd, one can’t even find a scope for it. I paused the video, wondering what to to. I decided to look up the actual article, wondering if it would still be there. I didn’t necessarily believe it would stay up for long.<\/p>\n \nI quickly found what must be said article, but in my world it lives behind a paywall. That does make it somewhat different: it’s not so much news, but rather content shared to a private audience of paying customers. From that point of view, it’s probably not the most surprising thing on the Internet.<\/p>\n