2017-09-05, 04:45 | Link #241 |
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Unfortunately, there's a difference of opinion
A) Things became like this because the US was TOO SOFT on North Korea, and this lead it to eventually progress this far. It's time GET SERIOUS about North Korea. Use force if necessary B) Things became like this because the US continuously agitated North Korea, with missile defense, joint border practices, economic sanctions and most recently responding to threats by Trump (note: this constant agitation is also something that previous administrations, Democrats included have done) Trump's base is A) So it's not just his ego alone |
2017-09-05, 15:06 | Link #242 |
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C.) The Kim line are assholes.
I mean really, China's been treating them relatively well (well, considering how China treats everyone else), and look how grateful they are. The idea that they wouldn't act out without provacation is far fetched to say the least. It is much like Muslim Extremism . Yea, no doubt the great powers made the problem worse but at the same time a quick look at their ideology makes it pretty obvious that they do not want peace to begin with and what they really want is an excuse to start shit.
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2017-09-05, 19:42 | Link #244 |
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Its been maybe 20 years since I looked into this but isn't Isreali's nuclear weapons based on stolen American tech and French designs. Plus I suppose Jewish nuclear scientists that migrated there following World War II. There "we don't have those" nuclear weapons, since they'd rather have them as tactical weapons and a quiet threat to the locals.
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2017-09-05, 21:23 | Link #245 | ||
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Saddam's line were assholes too. Removing them from power made things worse. I just want those in charge to think clearly before going America, #### yeah! Regime change has serious repurcussions China already offered a solution to the US. It was rejected https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=HRwf0qdy_S8 Quote:
Aside from abducting a few foreign citizens and an assassination to consolidate power, they have not enacted any jihad equivalent against the US Muslim extremism has 3 major enablers: Saudi Arabia, Israel, US foreign policy |
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2017-09-05, 22:26 | Link #246 |
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Sadaam didn't have any wmd and definitely not to bluster around. Invading was flimsy at best.
You are right, it is mostly bluster but it is not like North Korea is just responding out of unfair mistreatment. This is on Un's hands if he wants to survive. And what about China's head in sand anyways?
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2017-09-05, 22:46 | Link #247 |
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Kim Jong Un Has A Plan. We Don't, But
Here Are Our Options: "Things have moved so fast over the last 18 months when it comes to Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs that it seems as if many are in denial of just how perilous the situation has become. Above all else, the summer has underlined one cold and harsh reality—Kim Jong Un clearly has a plan and the U.S. and its allies clearly don't. But just because we don't have a clear strategy for taking on the Kim Regime now doesn't mean we can't come up with one fast, and there are plenty of options left aside from a wide scale strike on North Korea's nuclear and missile programs or all out war." See: http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...re-our-options |
2017-09-05, 23:14 | Link #248 |
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For a so-called superpower, they often look clueless as hell when it comes to how they play their role. Being a superpower also sometimes demands that you go hard against "vassal states" that have gone out of line.
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2017-09-06, 07:38 | Link #251 |
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To start a WWIII NK would need an allies, who will fight alongside them. While there's a lot of countries that oppose USA and it's allies, no country that wants to live will unite with NK to fight in the war that it can't win. Fun might start somewhere else, though, and in that case NK DEFINITELY will join the party.
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2017-09-06, 08:26 | Link #252 |
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If things escalate to the point where a nuke is fired, god forbid, then everyone will just stand by and let NK be destroyed in the nuclear retaliation and rant about how HORRIBLE it is that things came to this and how whoever pressed the retaliation button is a terrible terrible person why privately heaving a sigh of relief that it wasn't them who did it.
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2017-09-06, 08:27 | Link #253 |
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It basically require both NK and USA do something really, really stupid, as a combo.
And for a long time, only NK is doing something stupid. But now we have at least 4 years, if not 8, of having America believably doing something stupid. Don't forget, WW1 was started when multiple nations made stupid decisions that in hindsight, made no sense. So the risk is always there.
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2017-09-06, 18:31 | Link #254 | |
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If we look the issue that way, the US, while W Bush was president, was '' doing something stupid'' for 8 years, and WW3 didn't start over North Korea.
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2017-09-14, 19:29 | Link #256 |
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Yet another NK missile flies over japan.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20170915_19/
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2017-09-14, 22:49 | Link #259 | |
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china neither don't want take control over NK and neither want to allow any USA friend(even south korea) control it.
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2017-09-14, 23:01 | Link #260 |
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While I agree that Kim is completely nuts, stopping him could be impossible. Granted, all my info is from some facebook videos, but these seem to be the problems: First if a war was started(excuse me, I should say "military conflict"), NK would actually have the upper hand. They could nuke SK and possibly other countries like japan or Guam before the US could do anything about it. Then, there's the logistics of actually moving enough weaponry over to NK in order to be actually effective. Basically, if a war/escalated conflict were to happen, NK has the upper hand.
Which is why I would prefer the second option of a covert operation going in and assassinating the bastard. But that carries its own set of problems. First, we'd have to find a way to set up a suitable replacement leader, or else we get Syria 2.0. And even if someone was found, we have the problem of apparently all NK people are indoctrinated from a young age to hate the US with a passion and wish for its destruction- apparently an effect caused by the US's role in the Korean War. And God forbid that China decides to back up NK in any action... then we really would go into WWIII. So no matter how you look at it, this is something that the uS cannot win and we're compeltely fucked if things get worse... which they very well might. NK knows it can get away with what its doing because anything else will be setting the stage for millions of deaths that no one wants to be blamed for.
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