Can't tell if this is a mickey take: If it isn't a mickey take I really do need to find a way to get onto another planet because I think this one's broken. Vin
Jesus H, Russia stepping in to cool things between N.Korea & USA. Might be time to build a den in the woods and live with the animals.
I saw that people were calling for diplomacy....the problem is that North Korea won't respond to diplomacy....their leader is a complete out and out lunatic with delusions about his importance in the world. He makes Trump look normal.
So, what would you suggest doing? I mean, leaving Trump to handle this, well its going to go one way. No, not twitter war!
Diplomacy is always worth a try. North Korea has responded to it in the past. I also believe that people are generally rational. It's a truly unusual person who is willing to risk their own death without a great motivation. Kim Jong Un may be a comical figure but under it he's almost certainly calm and calculating as well as unwilling to die prematurely. I listened to a one hour interview with a N Korea specialist the other day and he said if left unhindered (so worst case) if you divided Seoul into 3ft x 3ft squares, N Korea could deliver an artillery shell for each of those squares in a few hours. Even without that, war with the North would stop one of the most important economies of the world on the spot. FWIW, my solution would be to offer truckloads of cash to help their people and economy, every bit of aid designed not to be diverted into the pockets of those in power and all with caveats that prevent N Korea rattling its sabres for fear of losing proper cash. Help their standard of living increase; people with high standards of living have a vested interested in continued existence. It'd cost much less than any level of warfare. However, it would reap rewards in 20 or 30 years and Trump has the attention span of an ant. Trump's also wildly unpopular at home (and he's a walking ego to whom that is crucial) so a nice war distant from the US is just what he needs. He's on record as saying to (I think, can't find where I read it) a US congressman that he had to take into consideration that in he attacked N Korea any death toll would be in Asia rather than the US. He scares me far more than Kim Jong Un. As Churchill said: ‘Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.’ (though generally misquoted) Vin
I doubt that North Korea would be interested in aid that is not directed at the men in power....there is no sign that they actually care about their people at all. Sadly the way of the tyrant. Have to hope that the threat is all bluster....so America should not be the first to make a move.
He craves international respect (Kim that is!) and is playing Trump like a fiddle. Hence his wish for a nuclear capability (which he shouldn't be allowed to get, granted), but he's not stupid and he won't fire first. However, if that twerp Trump goes for a pre-emptive move, all bets are off, and that potentially includes Russia, and particularly China, getting involved. There's room for diplomacy, but it needs to be Chinese led, not that orange berk.
That's fantastic but the one I really loved was the gay man with AIDS who did the same thing a couple of years ago. That seriously made me weep.
please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Terrible scenes in Charlottesville in US. Far right walking doing the nazi salute as they carry torches. Then this anti far protest is drove into by a car!
