‘What Happens If An Airliner Comes Down?’ Trump, Kim, And The H-Bomb Threat
In case you were wondering whether Donald Trump's advisors were on board with the idea that he should personally insult Kim Jong-Un in front of the U.N. General Assembly this week, the answer is "no."
And while it will come as no surprise that Trump's "Rocket Man" rhetoric was apparently improvised, it's important to guard against the tendency to become numb to the shenanigans. Because unfolding before your very eyes is what everyone with any sense warned would probably happen although it's p
Last week I predicted 2 weeks until showtime. I think we are right on track (sadly). I hope to god China picks our side. Maybe the entangled finances of our two countries will be a saving grace.
I don’t see him putting a warhead on a missile and testing it that way. But I do see them putting it on a sacrificial vessel, sailing it out into open water, and then detonating it. That way you control where you want it.
A few thousand, mostly military men, live high off the hog that is the slave colony called N. Korea. My only hope is that there are enough of them that don’t want to loose their ‘gig’, that they poison the fat bastard before they loose everything.
I think that has a better chance of happening than the impeachment of America’s fat bastard.
You may be on to something…as Nero is once purported to have said..”You send a dog to kill a dog…” China gets nothing but Yalu River trouble by strictly adopting a US sanction regime on No. Korea. They MIGHT have a great deal to gain with Jong-Un’s removal..especially if a proposal is solidified with a guarantee to remove all US troops from So. Korean soil. They OBVIOUSLY DETER NOTHING….
China arranges the necessary moves..the US stands clear yet supports China when China reluctantly announce that it is greatly relieved that an unstable and threatening obstacle to world peace and trade has been replaced by more reasonable people.
Oh yeah! So. Korea throws in $10 Billion in immediate “humanitarian” aid to the No. in order to help their people recover from the yoke of a Fascist Dictatorship.
Think the funeral would be well attended??
“Think the funeral would be well attended??”
About the same as Mussolini’s.
> A few thousand, mostly military men, live high off the hog that is the slave colony called N. Korea.
Ditto for America, writ large! Dwight D. Eisenhower was so prescient.
To hell with both of those fascist turd holes.
A few thousand, mostly military men, live high off the hog that is the slave colony called USA. My only hope is that there are enough of them that don’t want to loose their ‘gig’, that they poison the fat bastard before they lose everything.
Either that or we all pray for the impeachment of the fat bastard.
Whatever “position” Kimbo is in he put himself there. Heisenberg’s article is a catalog of selective reasoning and predetermined conclusions. Not only can a President call a viscous little problem maker “Rocket Man..” he did. Trump also clearly reiterated (this was NOT a new position) that attacking the US was a one way ticket to annihilation. So what? Does anyone out there think that Jong-Un and his military staff don’t know that reality..whether it’s spoken or not?
Trump and the United States military are in a very difficult position not because of what Trump has said but because it has been ASSUMED by every President preceding him that an ally we have protected for over 60 years would support the United States in the kind of situation now faced. They don’t and won’t. China will NOT help..all of this is to their advantage. Ditto Russia.
No. Korea has played the wild and crazy card forever…Trump has played a Counter Gambit..instead of being “reasonable” as his predecessors he has thrown an unsettling
response at Jong-Un and now has him and his military wondering just what real constraints there may be on their nuclear/missile development.
“Trump has played a Counter Gambit”
no. Trump is just an idiot. this line that people cling to about “oh, he’s got a strategy” is ridiculous.
how about coming to grips with reality, which is this: “oh, that’s right, we elected a reality TV show host who everyone knew was an idiot and now he’s still an idiot.”
surprise! who could have known?
Unrealistic to expect China to be able or willing to help resolve N.Korea. China cannot exert that much influence on the matter as there exists significant limits to its leverage over the North Korean regime and South Korean government.
China prefers the status quo in North Korea in order to perpetuate a buffer zone on the Korean peninsula and to prevent a refugee crisis from spilling into China.
Great piece H.
I’ve held the view that Kim’s bark is worse than his bite (he knows if he pushes things too far that’ll be the end of him) however push him too far into a corner……
In my view Trump has played this all wrong. Sure Kim is playing up but like a spot if you scratch it you’ll make it worse, ignore it and it’ll go away. But because of Trump’s ego he can’t stand idly by so he has to get his dick out and wave it around as well. So people may die because of 2 fat privileged pricks who I suspect are both mentally ill.
(I reckon Kim has money on a long Volatility position anyway haha!).
How much of Kim’s behavior is attributable to Trump’s comments? Silence would be way more powerful here.
Exactly. Kim is like a child playing up, you don’t wind him up further.
Fewer words and more deeds would probably be more effective from a global standpoint.