Friend works at a travel agency (yes strange but true that agencies still exist) and has lost 2 group bookings to Thailand over the fear that the US and N.Korea could start a nuclear war.
Over reaction???
Friend works at a travel agency (yes strange but true that agencies still exist) and has lost 2 group bookings to Thailand over the fear that the US and N.Korea could start a nuclear war.
Over reaction???
ASSERTION WARNING for Frequent:
Despite recent US propaganda, it's still highly doubtful that North Korea has capability to hit the US with a strike.
Far more likely they'd hit some US ally nearer to home (but not near enough to contaminate themselves presumably?).
Based on past performance that would mean the US would then take 2 or 3 years to enter any war.
goji (August 10th, 2017)
Originally Posted by scottish-guy
ASSERTION WARNING for Frequent:
Despite recent US propaganda, it's still highly doubtful that North Korea has capability to hit the US with a strike.
Far more likely they'd hit some US ally nearer to home (but not near enough to contaminate themselves presumably?).
Based on past performance that would mean the US would then take 2 or 3 years to enter any war.
Hawaii are perfect target - sill USA but far from everything
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Two of the most bat shit insane world leaders we've seen in a long time are currently and publicly threatening each other with nuclear war. How do you think this is going to end? They're somehow going to come to a peaceful truce and agreement? Not likely.
The US DIA has been reporting since 2013 that North Korea has the capability to minituraize a nuclear weapon, so this is nothing new. The rhetoric definitely is new though.
Trump is going to back down. He's completley crazy, and in his mind wants to go down as some amazing and powerful leader who people will revere for generations to come, and he probably believes obliterating NK is a good way to do that.
Then NK leaders would rather die than give up the regime, so they're not going to back down either.
There is no way this is ending peacefully.
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A far more interesting question is whether the US has something like the Stuxnet computer virus that they can deploy. I've seen it suggested that some of the recent test failures could have been as a result of the US trying out their cyber warfare capabilities
Yes I read that suggestion too.
The UK/US Saddam WMD "intelligence" fiasco - which was later revealed to have been a tissue of lies - has made it very hard for sensible people to regard any of these carefully disseminated message as reliable.
History has shown that when despotic/demonic leaders get large stockpiles of weapons they tend to like to use them. At some point. I can imagine a situation where America and her allies go in from the south and China/Russia go in from the north in a joint operation.
Because the idea of North Korea being able to hit mainland USA with nuclear weapons is too ghastly to contemplate.
The Chinese chickens are well and truly coming home to roost. For years it was to their advantage that America was taken up with North Korea. Now, it's a different story.
.... or at least threaten to do so.
Like Thatcher suggesting to Garret Fitzgerald in 1985 that she might bomb the Irish Republic.
And no, that's not a joke.
Well Scottish I was referring to Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Mao, Kennedy, The Russians, Saddam Hussein. But if you want to use a serious discussion to av a go at ol' Thatch then you go ahead.
I don't read Thatchers comment the same way you do Scottish. I don't read it a as a threat but a question of if this happened to you what would you do.
Never heard that before about maggie
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