Interesting article by Iraq veterns on potential war nith NORK

While I personally would prefer to leave 'nukes' off the table, if (WHEN?) Kim's Rearry ILL starts something stupid then the reply should simply start with carpet-bombing. Of the likes of G.Bush-the-One'th.

Now, whether to start from the south and work up, or the perifery and work in, or the center and work out would be for "smarter minds" than mine to decide. The point though, is to absolutely get rid of the "pretend we're at war type doctrine" that has pervaded and damned-near destroyed the military here as it has. If hounds are to be unleashed, then take off the muzzles, too!

An' Git 'r Done!
 
while i fully believe Lil' Kim is batshit crazy.......i really dont think hes stupid.

and he knows fully well that if he STARTS a war.....it is going to go terribly badly for him. he knows he cannot win any war alone.....he can barely feed his people, much less fight a war for any amount of time. more importantly, his people are defecting ant chance they get.....if he sends any troops over the border, they are all going to flee.

which is why hes doing exactly what hes doing.....trying to taunt us into a war with him......so that we appear as the aggressors, even though his country has been making the threats for the past 70 years.

if he can get the US or SK to "start" a conflict....they know they have a better chance of having the backing of russia or china.

so for the time being, hes not gonna do shit, but sit there and run his mouth.
 
He is running down the clock to get himself a dozen operational ICBM's, then he'll start demanding more... and may well get egotistical enough to move South.

But agree, we don't need a land war in Asia. Those don't go well. For anyone. That said, we are really good at war. I mean really, really good at it. We suck at nation building and all the crap that soldiers get asked to do... when that's not what they're for.

We need to push China further. Your economy implodes... or you give the flick to the little Fat One. It's that simple. Noone has the balls, yet, to push China. Give it time.

Cheers,

Sirhr
 
Any escalation to the use of nuclear weapons is gonna be an unmitigated catastrophe. The scale of destruction and death will not be limited to N. Korean territory, its simply not the nature of the weapon. Hell, we (the US govt) was (may still be) willing to accept the deaths of 100 million allied Europeans due to fall out from our weapons detonating in the USSR/Russia. As ugly as conventional warfare is, it is still far more preferable to the alternative.
 
To me, that piece reads as a simple political hit-piece. Get a couple of Dem lawmaker/vets to go on record, all too happy to state how the "mad man in the WH" is about to get us all killed, and how it's going to blow up any minute now.
 
^^^ Which is exactly what they did to Reagan... and he did more for removing the nuclear threat between the Cold War powers than anyone in history....

But he was a madman. He was going to push the button. That Crazy Aussie Bitch Caldercott thought he was going to kill us all... like we needed crazy Aussie bitches telling us what to do...

It's just the far left blathering on, as always, about how a Republican will destroy civilization. %$#k them...

Cheers,

Sirhr
 
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The glut of the Chinese economy is based on US consumerism and manufacturing. China will NEVER let NK get away with initiating a conflict and will go to the ends of the Earth to stop the US from starting a conflict w/ NK.
 
My worped perspective of history.!

If you rule a messed up country, and want to save face you start a war!
As tradition holds true it's a win win situation.!.
If you win then you get over big time.
If you lose you can say I tried .

In case you start shit with the USA and loose traditionally we rebuild your entire (f) ing place for you.!
Little rocket man saves face, his people get fed and I pay for thier baloney sandwiches.

If when we went to war, we took everything and kept the (f)ing place most little shit heads would bow out.
I think it would take ony one good time per 1-3 hundred years.

Gots to score some baloney I'm hungry!
 
Yes a Dem scare piece.

Of course shit is being prepped because unlike the last admin the words have meaning. Words without force to back them up are useless.

The pressure on little Fatty is coming to bear.

Right now he is camouflaging his program with gestures of peace. In the past that usually only came about after cash payment now it's happening due to threat of force.

Now is the time to step up the pressure on the regime elite. Further restrict their supplies of caviar and high end booze.

When the colonels are resorting to off the shelf kimchi Fatty will look even less worth the effort.

The Dems are pissed as this is working and perhaps when it's all said and done they are afraid when we go through the NK missile facilities we will find data plates "Shared with our NORK friends courtesy of the Clinton Foundation via our cofriend China, Musk Industries"
 
FTFA:

“We have some great plans should, as we say, ‘the balloon go up’ in Korea,” Gallego, a former Marine, told me. “I know what happens with plans when the first bullet goes flying. … What I fear is that someone like Donald Trump will look at these great plans, look at our great military, which it is, look at their great capability, which we have, and not understand that these are not superhumans—that if we do something wrong, we will potentially kill hundreds of thousands of people, including some of our own troops, and potentially disrupt a good portion of the world’s economy for years to come.” And that’s considering only the early stages of battle and assuming the conflict doesn’t go nuclear.

“You’re basing policy and military action on hopes instead of on reality and sound reasoning,” Gallego said. “Does this sound familiar? For me it does, as somebody who ended up serving on the front lines of the Iraq War, where I was supposed to be greeted as a liberator. Instead I basically got shot at every day.”


I find the second paragraph humorous, and it should sound familiar - "hopes" and not "reality and sound reasoning" are exactly what led to a hasty withdrawal of US forces from Iraq before the country and its military was ready, creating the power vacuum that allowed ISIL to organize, grow and flourish.

As for the first paragraph, he's *mostly* not wrong. Americans have been scared by the media about NK's nuclear progress and new ICBM putting Hawaii and even the continental US at risk, but are utterly ignorant about PRK's artillery that will absolutely LEVEL Seoul and its millions of residents in the opening hours of a shooting war, to say nothing of launches toward Japan. *That* is the primary risk of a first strike action, not an untested low-yield nuke on missiles that have blown up more frequently than had successful tests.

I do think Gallego, like many progressives, think Trump is a stupid idiot and I personally *seriously* doubt that. I mean, what kind of stupid idiot plays the press like a fiddle for years and outmaneuvers the entire Democratic political machine during the campaign to win three Rust Belt states that haven't gone to the GOP since the days of Reagan? No, Trump realizes the risks and while I don't think he cares about his 'unpopularity', seriously doubt he wants his legacy to be millions of dead South Koreans and a decimated global economy because he wanted to show he had the bigger dick (I mean, 'button') to the Norks.
 
Buddy over there says there's nothing to see, keep moving along...

Basically he says nothing has changed in forever. His step mom was Korean growing up and I think he lived there for a while. Nothing has changed.

But when the shit flies, NK can saturate the border with artillery fire, I understand one round per sq. meter. That's total destruction. That's in the first few minutes too. He has a LOT of heavy shit along that border.

The best way to knock his ass out is to hit him from the sides, branch north and south from there. He'll be fighting on 3-4 fronts that way, depending.

As for his nuclear shit, well, for every nuke he sends our way, how about we send fifty or a hundred? He's gotta know our response to WMD attacks is to use nuclear weapons. Gas, bio, whatever, we respond with nukes. And Trump is having our arsenal modified to accommodate less strategic and more, even smaller tactical nukes (which I also think is a way of him "legitimizing" their use in war, but that's another topic).

We also shot a satellite out of the sky when it's orbit was degrading. What makes him think we can't hit his shit too? From what I understand, we have about every anti missile system in inventory, and some not in inventory, ringing that peninsula. We have a 747 airliner loaded with 3 laser systems that can accurately destroy a missile anywhere in flight. Kim, wake the fuck up my fat little man!
 
The solution is simple. Just send a bunch of ICBM's to explode over North Korea. Not carrying nukes but rather ten million pictures of South Korean Grocery Stores. Then The people of NK will solve their own problem.

That's fucking funny. Sad, but funny.

Have you ever watched a NK watch an American movie? Geez... IF we ever did liberate NK, the culture shock and difference in culture will be something I'm not sure we'll be able to deal with, it at take a generation or two to change them. They watch our movies, but through a filter of Kim's regime. They don't understand what's being said, so they make up stuff. The shit they make up is worthy of MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000). It's some funny shit, totally bizarre.
 
Yeah the problem is afterwards the entire country would be a basket case that neither South Korea or China wants to deal with... millions of starving, brainwashed commie zombies unable to function in the modern world. But it's just that... South Korea and China's problem, not ours.