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So Jacobin is misleading, because the Finnish vaccine, while promising, is nowhere near the market. Testing has to yet begin on animals and then humans. Must read in the sense that the vaccine is a new mechanism, but otherwise way overblown reaction and interpretation from Jacobin… aleric One of the points of the article was that they were not able to get money allocated for human studies. Which are expensive, but a fraction of the total spent acquiring vaccine from other sources. So this criticism seems to miss the point that the state is unwilling to invest to break the oligopoly of big pharma. ....
Jong-un towards president trump. the deck is stacked in a way right now that kim jong-un views diplomacy as the best option in the short term. you have trump saying there could be military action if north korea doesn t express interest to denuclearize. you have this action that is really piling up to hurt north korea s economy. but for the north koreans, denuclearization could be an extremely long-term process, a temporary freeze followed by a dismantlement that could take a decade or longer, far outlasting the trump and moon presidencies. they could have a new administration in place to pull out of this and still have the nuclear force intact and also benefit from the use of sanctions and other potential benefits in engaging in diplomacy right now. this is kim jong-un playing the long game. he intends to remain in power far longer than the two ....