I bet NATO would have defended Greece against Turkey, but that’s different. Somehow.

I used to work in long-tailed litigated liability insurance claims. Think asbestos, lead paint, toxic exposures, etc. Insurance comes into play for defending companies against lawsuits made by people suffering from those exposures. I rationalized it to myself for a year and a half (if we don’t pay for the company’s defense attorneys, we couldn’t pay the claimants their settlements; we’re just following the contract; at this point, the big players are bankrupt, so the claimants are just going after easy targets; etc.), but it makes the world worse and I eventually quit.

I looked at other aspects of the industry, but there really wasn’t a role that I could feel totally comfortable with. At best, I felt like I I worked for the organization which gave earth “adequate notice” for the hyperspace bypass in hitchhikers guide.

I went back to school and now I teach new immigrants the local language. It took a lot of work and I make less money, but holy shit was it worth it.

When Biya’s regime unleashed the military, peaceful protests gave way to an armed separatist insurgency. At least 6,000 people were killed in the subsequent violent confrontations, displacing over half a million, and leaving 1.3 million in need of aid.

Dismissing the reports as “phantasmagorical” and “a clumsy attempt at disinformation”, Tchiroma, as the government spokesperson, had accused human rights organizations documenting the atrocities of being in cahoots with the secessionists.

“I 100% agree that the military committed atrocities,” he said in his election campaign. “But as minister of communication, my duty was to defend our armed forces,” he reasoned. “Today, I speak as a free man.”

He has even offered to hold a referendum to return the country to federalism – a long-standing demand in the Anglophone region. “I say it clearly: centralization has failed,” he said. As the communications minister, however, Tchiroma had reportedly banned the national media from using the word.

They both seem pretty awful. Tchiroma has about faced in a matter of months and nobody seems to actually care about the western part of the country.