Some states are condemned (and even invaded) supposedly because of their human rights abuses, while other worse offenders are ignored at best, and even celebrated at worst.
It seems that America will happily work with leaders sitting on tons of oil or allow market access for its corporations, never mind what those leaders subject their citizens to.
These days America’s diplomatic double standards are becoming even more pronounced under President Donald Trump, and now it’s threatening a nuclear standoff with North Korea.
The infamously tough-talking Trump has warned North-Korea of “fire and fury, unlike the world has ever seen,” after it tested a long-range missile able to reach the nearby American island of Guam.
Just as famous for not caring about America’s opinion of him, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un went ahead and tested more missiles anyway.
It’s widely believed that North Korea does have nuclear capabilities and may now have succeeded in miniaturising a nuclear bomb to fit onto one of its long-range missiles.
And since America also has nuclear bombs, the question is, with two such unpredictable leaders in charge of nuclear weapons, should humanity worry?
Both men strike me as the type to shoot first and say oops later.