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Post by Optimus on Aug 11, 2017 21:10:41 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 21:19:00 GMT -5
It's probably going to depend on the news cycle and how big a distraction he needs.
Let's just hope he doesn't get us engaged in military action on every continent at once.
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Post by Optimus on Aug 11, 2017 23:10:31 GMT -5
Heh.
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Post by Don on Aug 12, 2017 8:21:11 GMT -5
Trump should plan his next vacation in Guam. He can stand on the shore and raspberry toward NK. It would make for great reality T V.
I'd recommend all civilians evacuate first, though.
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Post by maxinquaye on Aug 12, 2017 15:02:47 GMT -5
If you look at a map, you'll realise why attacking North Korea with nukes is insane. First, the fallout not only threatens major population centres in China, Russia, South Korea and Japan, it also devastates an area of high strategic importance for all the major powers. If you want to go to war with Russia, China, the Koreas, and possibly even Japan then go ahead.
Japan will, though, likely do what we in the EU will do. We'll stay out of it, and abandon any idea that you're a sane and rational power that can be trusted. The USA will be solely and fully responsible for a Korean genocide that will rival what the Nazis did. Millions will die. Tens of millions. Not a single ally will side with you in this, because attacking North Korea is insane.
India will probably turn belligerent because they'll be down-wind from the Koreas. And they're going to worry a lot about a China that will be on a war footing. They're not going to be pleased that you started this shit, and they'll ready their own nukes and point them in every direction.
Australia will be down-wind too. Their major markets will be turned to glass, and their populations will blame the USA. If you want to set Asia on fire, you'll do this. We'll do our best over here to make sure the fire does not spread to our part of the world. But all bets are off about Eastern Europe, after Vladivostok starts to live under a toxic radioactive cloud. If, as seems likely, things turn sour, we'll blame you. And we won't come help in Asia.
There's a reason North Korea still exists. China is a rational actor. It's not a very nice actor, and it's fully prepared to let millions of Koreans suffer under the yoke of the North Korean dictatorship. But, China is rational, and North Korea exists because it's a buffer against the capitalist South Korea that could otherwise 'infect' large parts of northern China. As long as the buffer is useful, China will support North Korea. But the threat of 'capitalist infection' is preferable to nuclear fallout. Nuclear fallout tend to make populations antsy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 16:24:05 GMT -5
I don't want war with North Korea.
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Post by mikey on Aug 12, 2017 17:13:44 GMT -5
Mueller who?
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Post by maxinquaye on Aug 14, 2017 5:41:29 GMT -5
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Post by poetinahat on Dec 4, 2017 19:12:02 GMT -5
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Post by poetinahat on Dec 4, 2017 21:58:53 GMT -5
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