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???
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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.
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Don't you mean past experience shows the US enters about 2 years later & only after the US is directly attacked ?
Anyway, whilst the US kindly prop up NATO at present (much appreciated), the major Western European countries need to make sure they can fend off prospective aggressors without external support. Just in case the external support backs out. We are a very long way from having sufficient military strength to do that at present.
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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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.
Never heard that before about maggie