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Strategist saysAll Kim wants is luxury, riches, and pleasure. Give him a $100 million and let him retire with a harem in China. In no time his pretty wife, who was probably forced to sleep with him will dump him. he he he
With the exception of the harem in China (Russia might be more fitting) the description fits the Trump marriage to a "T".
Silly is trying to nominate Potus for a Nobel Peace prize. Sour grapes is still harping about the prize Obama got.
By the way how come we are allowed to have nukes and kill people at will or threaten them to do things our way but no one new can ? Please don't tell me we lead the world in morals.
I dunno. It certainly looks like Trump's actions over the past year helped break the Korean impasse that previous presidents could not.
Please do not forget the great help that my good friend, President Xi of China, has given to the United States, particularly at the Border of North Korea. Without him it would have been a much longer, tougher, process!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 27, 2018
By the way how come we are allowed to have nukes and kill people at will or threaten them to do things our way but no one new can ? Please don't tell me we lead the world in morals.
Wow - what a sane group holding the world hostage.
Feux Follets saysWow - what a sane group holding the world hostage.
Iran?
North Korea?
oh, wait, it's okay if they get nukes. We shouldn't risk war to stop them. Just write another firm letter and hope for the best, and/or bribe them with cash or food, which has been the previous policies.
Reads like a rouges gallery of narcistic "deal makers". Real "statesmen" ? OFMG
When was the last time North Korea invaded a sovereign country under false pretenses ?
Are you including the "religious fanatics" in this country aka the evangelicals ?
Strategist saysEventually, we want a world without dictators, kings, religious wackos, and nuclear weapons.
You just described a good portion of the western world - the good guys. Boy are we fucked.
The Obama Admin not only failed to do shit on Korea, made a shitty deal with Iran, put half of Libya and Syria in the hands of Islamists, and oversaw the emergence of the Coldest relationship between the US and Russia, including during much of the Cold War.
Armageddon - a bit dramatic this evening but sounds pretty scary - maybe the administration can use it.
If there is a military action in Asia (i.e. the Koreas etc.) any bets who is going to start something they can't finish ?
Strategist saysThey don't have to invade anyone not to be trusted. The NK regime is only interested in their perpetual survival at the expense of tens of millions of innocent people they control.
Why are you OK with that?
Sound just like the U.S. - absolutely no different. Don't do things our way - we will threaten you. Don't give in - we will bomb you.
Our track record for keeping our word on treaties, pacts etc. is not exactly something you want to write home about - kind of like admitting to your first born they are the reason you got married in the first place.
Strategist saysThe West is all democracy
Stand up comedy now ? Glad I stayed up for a bit.
Armageddon - a bit dramatic this evening but sounds pretty scary - maybe the administration can use it.
TwoScoopsPlissken saysISIS is the JV Team.
We Came, We Saw, He Died.
Reset Button.
Red Line.
And ISIS came about because - go ahead - BUSHII and the other guy with the mustache - Jim something, last names starts with a "B" and it seems he is somewhere in government again..
Are we going to denuclearize to their satisfaction ? When they say Korean "peninsula" that means both ends - all of it
Strategist saysThey won't be given any choices, and carrots, or any concessions, until after they denuclearize to our satisfaction
Wanna bet ? They have already got more than they could have ever imagined and it will pay dividends for years to come.
Are we going to denuclearize to their satisfaction ? When they say Korean "peninsula" that means both ends - all of it
Strategist saysThe West is the most democratic.
That was not the original statement therefore not playing that game. The original statement was the west is all democracy.
Strategist saysThey will denuclearize completely, because Kim and his regime cannot win
They had already won - a significant victory just by getting major street cred for being recognized as a world threat and player in the nuclear world.
Remember Folks, CNN said the Iraqi Army was the 4th Largest in the World in 1991. Seems silly today, but I remember watching the telly as a kid.
So many talking heads bleating about how it was gonna be the struggle of titans, when it turned out to be the most one-sided battle in History.
By the way what is the expected time line for this denuclearization, how will it be verified, how will it be maintained - what's to stop China and or Russia from exerting influence and or placing a few military weapons in the country prior to any reunification.
My question is......will they ever learn? ROFL ROFL.
North Korea has freed three U.S. citizens detained for years in the communist country, bowing to another demand of President Trump ahead of his planned meeting with Kim Jong-un.
The three Americans — Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk, also known as Tony Kim — were released from a North Korean labor camp and sent to Pyongyang for medical treatment, the Financial Times reported.
Though out of the brutal labor camp, the men remain in the grasp of Mr. Kim’s regime.
They currently are believed to be convalescing in a hotel outside Pyongyang.
“We believe that Mr. Trump can take them back on the day of the U.S.-North Korea summit, or he can send an envoy to take them back to the U.S. before the summit,” said Choi Sung-ryong, an activist pursuing release of North Korea’s political prisoners.
The release of the three Americans marked another significant victory for the Trump administration, which also won North Korea’s agreement to discuss giving up its nuclear weapon program as a prerequisite for the talks.
National Security Adviser John R. Bolton had called for the release of the detainees, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly raised the issue during secret face-to-face talks with Mr. Kim last month in Pyongyang.
Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. Kim Dong Chul is the president of a company involved in international trade and hotel services. He was sentenced to 10 years on espionage charges.
Why the US’s 1994 deal with North Korea failed – and what Trump can learn from it.
After more than two decades of testing, North Korea finally has a missile that is powerful enough to deliver a nuclear warhead to US territory – that is, to Alaska and/or Hawaii, if estimates are to be believed. This is an extremely dangerous development, and if the Trump administration is to avoid spiralling into a nuclear confrontation with North Korea, it needs to understand what North Korea wants and why it behaves the way it does.
TwoScoopsPlissken saysISIS is the JV Team.
We Came, We Saw, He Died.
Reset Button.
Red Line.
And ISIS came about because - go ahead - BUSHII and the other guy with the mustache - Jim something, last names starts with a "B" and it seems he is somewhere in government again..
Does the South Korean government really believe that Trump’s “maximum pressure” policy is the force driving North Korea to consider bargaining away its nuclear weapons? As South Korean officials handle the heavy lifting through constant rounds of shuttle diplomacy, do they really think it is all thanks to Trump?
Among academics and experts there are still conflicting answers to this question.
Trump has to balance many issues
Previous Admins would just put Rustbelt Americans out on the street without a second thought
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I have been warning everyone for weeks that a miscalculation or a mistake is going to lead to a war between the US and North Korea that will result in the use of nuclear weapons in battle for the first time since 1945.
I promised myself that I would not watch the Ken Burns series Vietnam. After all, I had four friends killed there and some friends wounded. A Purple Heart certificate sits on the wall in my study. I broke the promise to myself. I watched the first two episode of the series yesterday. I focused on how four U.S. presidents saw Vietnam. Let me summarize what I saw:
President Eisenhower: He gave France hundreds of millions of dollars in support to keep them fighting in Vietnam. At one point, he was financing 80% of France’s costs to fight the war. France had over 100,000 casualties in Vietnam. President Eisenhower would not send US troops. He decided that the war was unwinnable.
President Kennedy: One quote in the show was most telling as follows:
“These people don’t like us. But if Vietnam falls to the Communists, I will lose the 1964 election.”
At the John F. Kennedy Library, I purchased a book: Vietnam Had Kennedy Lived. This is some heavy reading and quite scholarly. The conclusion is that Kennedy would have stayed in Vietnam until after the 1964 election and then started to wind down US involvement even if the North Vietnamese won.
President Johnson: Despite his humble background and education, Johnson’s biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin described him as a political genius. Johnson believed in The Domino Theory. In other words, if South Vietnam fell, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, etc. would follow.
President Nixon: Alan Greenspan described Nixon as a dark and troubled man with a brilliant mind. President Nixon was a master of foreign affairs. He too believed in the Domino Theory.
With Johnson and Nixon strong believers in the Domino Theory, it was inevitable that Vietnam would be a long and a bloody war for the USA. North Vietnam won at the cost of some 3.25 million people killed. 20% of their territory is a “no man’s land” due to land mines and poisonous chemicals. After the Vietnam war ended in 1975, an additional 50,000 Vietnamese civilians were killed by land mines and unexploded ordinance.
Let us go to the present. Everyone thinks that Donald Trump is wild and irresponsible. Even if Hillary Clinton or Mike Pence were president, a war with North Korea would be inevitable. It would escalate to a nuclear conflict. The mindset is there as it was in Vietnam. It will start with some mistake or misunderstanding. It will quickly escalate into a nuclear exchange because that sort of firepower will be needed to destroy North Korea’s military capabilities.
Let me expose some fallacies as follows:
1) Kim Jung Un and his senior management team are phantoms hiding in heavily-fortified bunkers all the time. Wrong, they do appear in public. Rest assured that the following countries have “eyes on” Kim and his management team 24 hours a-day seven days a week:
The US
Japan
South Korea
China
Israel (Due to fear of North Korea sharing its nuclear technology with Iran.)
The dream of all these countries would be a stealth drone strike that would kill Kim Jung Un and his management team. If this happened the country would collapse.
2) Massive nuclear weapons will have to be employed with casualties in the range of 25 million plus. Nuclear weapons will be employed to “take out” military targets. My educated guess is one million casualties.
3) South Korea and Japan will be heavily damaged. There will be some casualties and damage in South Korea and Japan. China should be very concerned. When things get really irrational, North Korean nuclear weapons and poison gas might be used against China.
What will follow will be a temporary fall in world financial markets with a nasty recession to follow. Violent protests will erupt all over the world. These protests will make the Vietnam War protests seem pale in comparison.