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Libbies go first.
Lowbrows are always the most expendable...
Feux Follets saysAnd when the war starts, the Trump supporters should be rounded up and sent to Korea along with their NRA thought controllers, given AR-15s and be told to hold the line, the front line, not the line somewhere down south.
That should go to President Moon, not Trump.
That should go to President Moon, not Trump.
War Between The United States And North Korea Is Inevitable
No - President Moon and the Koreans deserve the peace price if anyone does, that would include Kim.
Important Truth Bomb from very special Obama Administration Genius Adviser Person, Ben Rhodes
Now we all know that we have little to fear from the supposedly Krazy Korean. He will operate from self interest just like every other petty dictator, and we can trust in that.
Trump is keeping America’s pimp hand strong
Quigley saysNow we all know that we have little to fear from the supposedly Krazy Korean. He will operate from self interest just like every other petty dictator, and we can trust in that.
Trump is keeping America’s pimp hand strong
I know it’s tacky, but this statement is even more relevant today.
President Moon and the Koreans deserve the peace price if anyone does
Not seeing the logic for putting Potus over Moon and for that matter Moon and Kim but then again since a underserving black guy got a prize, might as well give one to an underserving white guy and a stable genius as well.
Strategist saysAll Kim wants is luxury, riches, and pleasure. Give him a $100 million and let him retire with a harem in China. In no time his pretty wife, who was probably forced to sleep with him will dump him. he he he
With the exception of the harem in China (Russia might be more fitting) the description fits the Trump marriage to a "T".
Silly is trying to nominate Potus for a Nobel Peace prize. Sour grapes is still harping about the prize Obama got.
By the way how come we are allowed to have nukes and kill people at will or threaten them to do things our way but no one new can ? Please don't tell me we lead the world in morals.
I dunno. It certainly looks like Trump's actions over the past year helped break the Korean impasse that previous presidents could not.
Please do not forget the great help that my good friend, President Xi of China, has given to the United States, particularly at the Border of North Korea. Without him it would have been a much longer, tougher, process!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 27, 2018
By the way how come we are allowed to have nukes and kill people at will or threaten them to do things our way but no one new can ? Please don't tell me we lead the world in morals.
Wow - what a sane group holding the world hostage.
Feux Follets saysWow - what a sane group holding the world hostage.
Iran?
North Korea?
oh, wait, it's okay if they get nukes. We shouldn't risk war to stop them. Just write another firm letter and hope for the best, and/or bribe them with cash or food, which has been the previous policies.
Reads like a rouges gallery of narcistic "deal makers". Real "statesmen" ? OFMG
When was the last time North Korea invaded a sovereign country under false pretenses ?
Are you including the "religious fanatics" in this country aka the evangelicals ?
Strategist saysEventually, we want a world without dictators, kings, religious wackos, and nuclear weapons.
You just described a good portion of the western world - the good guys. Boy are we fucked.
The Obama Admin not only failed to do shit on Korea, made a shitty deal with Iran, put half of Libya and Syria in the hands of Islamists, and oversaw the emergence of the Coldest relationship between the US and Russia, including during much of the Cold War.
Armageddon - a bit dramatic this evening but sounds pretty scary - maybe the administration can use it.
If there is a military action in Asia (i.e. the Koreas etc.) any bets who is going to start something they can't finish ?
Strategist saysThey don't have to invade anyone not to be trusted. The NK regime is only interested in their perpetual survival at the expense of tens of millions of innocent people they control.
Why are you OK with that?
Sound just like the U.S. - absolutely no different. Don't do things our way - we will threaten you. Don't give in - we will bomb you.
Our track record for keeping our word on treaties, pacts etc. is not exactly something you want to write home about - kind of like admitting to your first born they are the reason you got married in the first place.
Strategist saysThe West is all democracy
Stand up comedy now ? Glad I stayed up for a bit.
Armageddon - a bit dramatic this evening but sounds pretty scary - maybe the administration can use it.
TwoScoopsPlissken saysISIS is the JV Team.
We Came, We Saw, He Died.
Reset Button.
Red Line.
And ISIS came about because - go ahead - BUSHII and the other guy with the mustache - Jim something, last names starts with a "B" and it seems he is somewhere in government again..
Are we going to denuclearize to their satisfaction ? When they say Korean "peninsula" that means both ends - all of it
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I have been warning everyone for weeks that a miscalculation or a mistake is going to lead to a war between the US and North Korea that will result in the use of nuclear weapons in battle for the first time since 1945.
I promised myself that I would not watch the Ken Burns series Vietnam. After all, I had four friends killed there and some friends wounded. A Purple Heart certificate sits on the wall in my study. I broke the promise to myself. I watched the first two episode of the series yesterday. I focused on how four U.S. presidents saw Vietnam. Let me summarize what I saw:
President Eisenhower: He gave France hundreds of millions of dollars in support to keep them fighting in Vietnam. At one point, he was financing 80% of France’s costs to fight the war. France had over 100,000 casualties in Vietnam. President Eisenhower would not send US troops. He decided that the war was unwinnable.
President Kennedy: One quote in the show was most telling as follows:
“These people don’t like us. But if Vietnam falls to the Communists, I will lose the 1964 election.”
At the John F. Kennedy Library, I purchased a book: Vietnam Had Kennedy Lived. This is some heavy reading and quite scholarly. The conclusion is that Kennedy would have stayed in Vietnam until after the 1964 election and then started to wind down US involvement even if the North Vietnamese won.
President Johnson: Despite his humble background and education, Johnson’s biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin described him as a political genius. Johnson believed in The Domino Theory. In other words, if South Vietnam fell, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, etc. would follow.
President Nixon: Alan Greenspan described Nixon as a dark and troubled man with a brilliant mind. President Nixon was a master of foreign affairs. He too believed in the Domino Theory.
With Johnson and Nixon strong believers in the Domino Theory, it was inevitable that Vietnam would be a long and a bloody war for the USA. North Vietnam won at the cost of some 3.25 million people killed. 20% of their territory is a “no man’s land” due to land mines and poisonous chemicals. After the Vietnam war ended in 1975, an additional 50,000 Vietnamese civilians were killed by land mines and unexploded ordinance.
Let us go to the present. Everyone thinks that Donald Trump is wild and irresponsible. Even if Hillary Clinton or Mike Pence were president, a war with North Korea would be inevitable. It would escalate to a nuclear conflict. The mindset is there as it was in Vietnam. It will start with some mistake or misunderstanding. It will quickly escalate into a nuclear exchange because that sort of firepower will be needed to destroy North Korea’s military capabilities.
Let me expose some fallacies as follows:
1) Kim Jung Un and his senior management team are phantoms hiding in heavily-fortified bunkers all the time. Wrong, they do appear in public. Rest assured that the following countries have “eyes on” Kim and his management team 24 hours a-day seven days a week:
The US
Japan
South Korea
China
Israel (Due to fear of North Korea sharing its nuclear technology with Iran.)
The dream of all these countries would be a stealth drone strike that would kill Kim Jung Un and his management team. If this happened the country would collapse.
2) Massive nuclear weapons will have to be employed with casualties in the range of 25 million plus. Nuclear weapons will be employed to “take out” military targets. My educated guess is one million casualties.
3) South Korea and Japan will be heavily damaged. There will be some casualties and damage in South Korea and Japan. China should be very concerned. When things get really irrational, North Korean nuclear weapons and poison gas might be used against China.
What will follow will be a temporary fall in world financial markets with a nasty recession to follow. Violent protests will erupt all over the world. These protests will make the Vietnam War protests seem pale in comparison.