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Protests in Seoul have now been under way for more than twenty days; the head of the Central Election Commission has resigned and a criminal case has been opened against him; President Lee Jae Myung’s approval rating, once triumphant, has for the first time fallen below 50 per cent and is now outpaced by his disapproval rating. These are all outcomes of the scandal that erupted after the Democratic Party secured what initially appeared to be a convincing victory in the local government elections.

Some nations govern through policy, others through spectacle, but some eventually become trapped in their own mythology.

After Washington and the West’s failure to achieve strategic goals vis-à-vis Iran after decades of sanctions and ill-conceived bombing campaigns, Western pundits have reverted to an exhausted scare tactic: reviving the USSR’s caricature.