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This has been my biggest fear ever since watching Terminator 2 Judgement Day, millions dying in Nuclear war.
I know that sounds comical that i'm referencing a movie, but think about it. I was reading how it's easier for North Korea to hit the West Coast like California/Nevada/AZ etc.
I'm not the most knowledgeable about counter measures, or preventive measures. What does our Military/Navy/Airforce have to intercept a Nuclear missile so it doesn't hit our land?
I feel like any second i'm gonna see on the news "BREAKING NEWS NORTH KOREA HAS LAUNCHED A NUCLEAR MISSILE TOWARDS THE US"....
Your navy in the Sea of Japan will shoot whatever they launch out of the sky, and then NK will get carpet bombed back to the Goryeo Dynasty. There will be no nuclear war with NK.
We(the USA)have more goodies than anyone else when it comes to defense, and offense, for that matter.
Things that are "not so classified" aren't even common knowledge to most folks going about their daily business.
The things that are not made known to the general public would probably make our heads spin.
The only thing I'm worried about with the Korea situation, is how a "flare up" of violence would affect our economy, and our wallets in our day to day life.
Since the USA made ourselves vulnerable to economic blackmail, by making stupid trade deals, we put ourselves here.
The only prize I see is it puts Russia on deck for another war to keep a communist government in power. Russia may not be ready to stretch its resources so these hostilities might be a bargaining chip to get Russia out of somewhere else.
North Korea will only launch, or attempt to launch, missiles if they are attacked first.
Nukes are a deterrent, MAD, mutually assured destruction.
If (when?) we attack first we better be fast enough to take out out ALL missiles before they can rain hell on Seoul.
But Trump is a tough guy who's willing to fight to the last South Korean.
North Korea will only launch, or attempt to launch, missiles if they are attacked first.
Nukes are a deterrent, MAD, mutually assured destruction.
If (when?) we attack first we better be fast enough to take out out ALL missiles before they can rain hell on Seoul.
But Trump is a tough guy who's willing to fight to the last South Korean.
Rain hell on Seoul.....LOL.....
As a person who has flown over South Korea, for nearly 5 years, flown the DMZ numerous times, I can pretty much guarantee no hell will be brought to Seoul.....
As a side note, SK wants to invade NK, been that way for a long time.....
It does worry me. This is another problem that is exclusively due to the failed Obama administration.
Horse pucky! You can put the blame for this right on back to Eisenhower, should you choose to think of blame as a worthwhile endeavour.
The U.S. and others got involved without the will to carry through, having just come out of the carnage of WWII. This is proven by just such as happened later in Vietnam. No will to carry on.
War weariness is measurable and should be considered before firing shot number one.
Now the problem is one of the greatest superpower on earth having been involved in a never ending series of military boondoggles with no tangible or discernable positive result, it cannot sustain seeing more coffins, amputees and budgetary excesses to the extent the "war weariness" sets in far earlier in any conflict to ever allow success.
The most graphic example of this was Mogadishu and how quickly a decision was made to sacrifice those already dead to what amounted to nothing more than an 'ooopsy, didn't see that one coming' moment.
War is a last resort option but all too often it is thought of as a stop-gap measure.
Needing to go a few decades to recharge the "war tolerance" batteries but never getting the opportunity to do so is what's causing the problem.
Those who will never see the battlefield or even the resultant losses are the ones making the decisions to feed the MIC another buffet.
Yes, I worry. There's a maniac in charge in NK and we have at best a very unstable POTUS in the WH.
I keep hoping cooler heads prevail.
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