My biggest fear here is the intel.
The gambit here appears to be a posit to China along the lines of “If China is going to lead in the modern world, it must demonstrate control over their closest client state, the one currently threatening thermonuclear war against the US. The one you supplied with the materials equipping them with the ability to make this threat. We expect you to deal with this before we have to before they make good on their threat.”
The CIA is not - reliable.
If they have subs, and their subs are better than ws think, it is going to happen very quickly.
I think what the US did to the world economy in 2008 was the last straw in failed world leadership for most of the world. It would not surprise me if quiet discussion about a post US led world occurred furtively since 2008.
Then we elect President Trump, who vows to make America great again, unexpectedly.
Brexit happens.
We fine Deutsche, threaten to sink their biggest bank.
I can’t help thinking NKs tech is far better than we think it is, and the world will help NK take us out suddenly.
We may have found this out. Maybe not.
NK is a pawn the wbole world can get behind losing if it means not being led by a country that produces a string of leaders like the ones we’ve produced in the last 20 years.
I think this is theater. NK went rogue, their tech was better than we thought, and now the US is about the size of the original thirteen colonies.
Very few reliable sources of information out there.
.....” It would not surprise me if quiet discussion about a post US led world occurred furtively since 2008........
Of course that’s been happening since Obama first took office...his purpose was to further stand this nation down from across the world and usher us into the Globalist agenda.
Further he ‘proved’ time and again his loyalty did not lay in America but as a water-boy for International groups attempting to consolidate their powers.
Brexit happened because the people wanted it to happen...just as Trump happened here because of the people.
NORK technology is the rough equivalent of US technology circa 1950.
It would be a short but exciting life for the NORK military should they decide to take us on.
I find this analysis way, way off.
. . . and people forget that it wasn’t that long ago (late 1980’s) that China was threatening to nuke Los Angeles and other cities on the west coast - now all of a sudden China is a good bud?