My father drove a Patton tank in the Korean war. He spoke twice of the horrors. Only twice. So, I'm not a warmonger.
There is a time for fighting and a time for FIGHTING. I don't doubt that NK poses some danger. I think 'lil Kim shows signs of inbreeding (i.e., he may be crazy), and it's a situation worth monitoring.
But insofar as the same Deep State that's thwarting Trump's agenda is also pushing a Hillaryesque warmongering theme, and given the preponderance of globalists that WANT us to nuke NK, I'd like to think all rational adults - old and young - have a solid basis for skepticism.
To wit: THIS is what makes us quake in our shoes?
Let me be clear: Contrast a fourth-world nation that can't keep the lights on at night, with the label of being a massive threat to the free world.
Something is off.
I also have NO doubt that Trump and Mattis aren't dumb like the prior administration. We have adults in the White House who do not signal the US' strategy on CNN.
I think a more plausible scenario with Trump and Mattis is Kim's Generals start dropping dead during team dinners. After a restless night's sleep, Kim awakens to this...
Psyops....We'd never know about it, but I suspect it would be VERY effective at neutralizing Kim. If you give it enough time, and get enough subversive element into NK, then maybe the poor people of North Korea will do a Ceaușescu on Kim.
The night lights photo has been posted many times. I think it was Sec Rumsfeld that first brought it to our attention. Any way, most versions of that photo are of the Korean peninsula and are intended to contrast the poverty and just plain backwardness of the north compared with the south.
What’s interesting in the photo you posted is not the darkness of North Korea but the large areas of China that are well and in a band intensely lit. The China of today is not the backward communist state so many still believe it to be.
“Contrast a fourth-world nation that can’t keep the lights on at night, with the label of being a massive threat to the free world.”
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Cuba was also a fourth-world nation in 1962. Recall that it suddenly became a massive threat that nearly plunged us into WW III. Just as Cuba was, North Korea is a client state. And therein lies the big problem: we are actually dealing with China, albeit indirectly for the moment.
I’m not sure the subversive approach can remove Kim and his military cabal. He is a puppet of China. Maybe a bit of a problem child for them, but they’re content to let him be the vanguard for their hegemonic designs in the region. He serves a useful purpose for them.
Another complicating factor is the density of population in nearby Seoul. About 25 million people live in the city and its suburbs. That is a massive problem for any war planner. And soon Kim will have the capability to launch multiple ICBMs simultaneously. He also understands the principles of EMP and what it could do to a target country.
War should always be a last resort but I believe we are rapidly approaching that point. If we don’t do something soon, the problem will only grow increasingly difficult and costly to deal with.