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I'm not sure what, if any point you are trying to make. The saying, "don't make ultimatums you are unprepared to keep", has been around for decades, frequently addressing how NOT to deal with addicts, alcoholics, and other manipulative individuals.
Reason being, when you make an ultimatum and fail to carry through with it, the individual knows they have the power over you and will continue to manipulate you. Fairly applicable to most life situations.
Here's the street version:
Don't write checks your *** can't (or won't) cash.
When you threaten people, you have two choices: you back off and look weak, or you follow through, even if, in a calmer moment, you realize it's a bad idea.
I don't think we should ignore what NK is doing. I don't know what the answer is. But I'm pretty sure it's not throwing around a lot of big words that can escalate the situation before we have any strategy about how to deal with it.
In short, Trump needs to think more and talk less.
I would have preferred a bit more tact from Trump but he did not draw a line in the sand like Obama did in Syria.
Trump only said if you threaten us we will level you.
Of course it would be suicide for Kim jong to launch a nuke but how would America respond? If the missile came here we would strike but what if it hit somewhere in South Korea or Japan. What would our response be? How about the response from the world?
What scares me is that Kim jong could easily sell a nuke to a isis terrorists and they could bring it into a West coast harbor on a container ship and detonate it.
How about a WW3 where NK and Iran would team up, one destroying Seoul and the other Israel.
It is scary but I actually have more faith in Trump then if Hillary was in charge.
Which President has been able to handle the North Korea situation? The fact that NK has developed its missile technology to be able to hit the USA and may have miniaturized a warhead to be carried on the missile suggests that the policies of at least the last two Presidents have been an utter failure.
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It was just announced this afternoon that NK has a miniature nuclear warhead that will fit on a missile.
Miniaturized? Compared to what? Does anyone understand how silly that sounds?
ICBM payloads are typically 2,000 to 5,000 lbs.
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Originally Posted by Ponderosa
With untold thousands dead, Asia in ruins and the world economic order completely destroyed?
The world economic order will not be completely destroyed and Asia will not be in ruins.
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Originally Posted by cuebald
You cannot launch a nuclear attack on NK without it directly affecting Beijing, Russia, South Korea, and Japan, and depending on the size of the attack, having the fallout land on the U.S.
Oh, yes, you can. The fallout from a 20 kt warhead and a 450 kt warhead is the same.
So we of course should have gone to war with the USSR when Khrushchev said "We will bury you", right?
Funny how that worked out, isn't it?
That was a bad translation that the cold war press loved. He used a Russian idiomatic expression that was more along the lines of "we (meaning communism) will dance on your (capitalist) graves". Anyway, that hardly rose to what Kim is saying. Furthermore, we had diplomatic, cultural and historic relationships with Russia. There was no reason to think that Russia was about to launch a nuclear attack on us. No one thought that. Apples and oranges.
Nice diplomacy. What does he mean here? Will we bomb North Korea, kill hundreds of thousands, while North Korea strikes South Korea and the US, also killing hundreds of thousands? This will also trigger a mass refugee problem into China, destabilize world government and economies. Is this what Trump means? He's long on bluster and short on analysis of the situation. All sounds very nice in 140 characters on Twitter, but he's the President of the United States now and it's obvious he's in way over his head.
you dont know what he means anymore than anyone else does yet you go on to speculate on things in as pessimistic a way as possible, why be so negative?? Jim Acosta ? is that you ??
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