I read the quote while at work and then walked into a break area as video was playing. The video definitely makes it even more disturbing. Nobody was talking in the break room after that. //that's what they get for putting it on those channels.
It always sounds familiar... Why did Trump threaten NK with fury "the likes of which the world has never seen"? As @DLind notes, he'd just used that phrase re opioids: pic.twitter.com/LAmXyUbfOh— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 8, 2017
Lol...when will the US learn that UN sanctions don't work? Ask Castro That just piss off those countries even further and they double down on their positions... What's called doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result again?
BREAKING: North Korea says it is seriously considering plan to strike Guam - DJ & Reuters citing state media https://t.co/3GUZBh0cxW— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) August 8, 2017 Two crazy people, each goading the other toward disaster. (No doubt someone in the White House just told dumbass Donald that Guam is part of the United States.)
It's all of them. MSNBC is enjoying the "oh don't do it Donald" coverage, and I think a lot of the young journalists are thinking "oooo I get to cover a war! And it's not one of these drawn-out Middle East ones!"
To think that a few egos prevents the simplest solution proposed by China... Maybe sit down with North Korea and work out a deal.
Yep. So who among the Joint Chiefs, McMaster, etc. explains nuclear deterrence to this pile of orange fecal matter? We're always hearing how these "responsible generals" will be the buffer protecing us from our own president. Did they know he was going to threaten NK with nuclear annihilation?
You mean like engage in serious, non-public diplomacy? The kind of approach that's proven effective in avoiding conflict but, you know, where Twitter doesn't really play a role. If that's what you mean then, sure, he won't do anything. International relations/global conflict is not a zero sum game. Trouble is, that's all Trump understands; black and white, winners and losers.
I wouldn't assume that. The Tomahawk is perfectly capable of delivering a nuclear warhead from one of the subs parked on either side of the Korean peninsula before a NK IRBM / ICBM warhead makes it's journey and detonates
What's sadder is polls that already show that 50%+ of Americans approve of pre emptive military intervention. I feel like I live among idiots. Do we ever learn from history? A pre emptive strike would cause a 7 figure casualty war. A failed state that we'd now be responsible for, draining our budget. And a Cold War escalation with China/Russia. On the other hand letting this pass does nothing. Nobody is launching nukes at the US. And even if they did, it would have very low odds of success. Stop falling for the media fear mongering. American citizens are among the safest people in human history.
None of these things have to be but with Trump in control of our military/foreign affairs, you can bet on the worse possible outcome. This is one of those few occasions that I'd rather have Pence in the White House than Trump even though he is a fundamentalist menace.
Tillerson is cleaning-up the mess from yesterday's temper tantrum. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...p-drew-on-north-korea/?utm_term=.74e7a1b83630
God, this. Having to explain to relatives that, no, Arab terrorists aren't going to attack your shitty town in Upstate New York drives me insane.