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I think I saw this in a season of 24.

 

We didn't wake up every day with the POTUS making unhinged threats of nuclear war.

 

YAAF

 

Count me as skeptical of how much of a threat NK poses. Our nation's history is deep of military and intelligence "sources" discussing how much of a threat some country is, what weapons it holds and the fundamental danger it poses to our country and way of life. Cripes, Cheney was genius at leaking stuff anonymously, then using the "anonymous" claims as evidence of the need to act.
Real threats don't require a public relations campaign, they require action and if NK was an imminent threat yesterday, they would have been eliminated yesterday.

I don't want to trivialize the potential threat - hell the Winter Olympics will be going on in six months less than 200 miles from Pyongyang - but it's kind of like Lou Holtz talking up an opponent.

 

Trolling?

 

North Korea is an existential threat to South Korea, a real threat to Japan, but only a worrisome pest to us. We have what, 6000 nuclear warheads. They're working on one. After what happened to Saddam, it's perfectly rational Kim would want a means of hurting the US enough that attacking him would not be worth it. North Korea has engaged in decades of attacks of various intensity on South Korea, usually in naval patrol boat conflicts, and breathes fiery rhetoric at it every day, but the armistice has held for 64 years now, because North Korea knows it'd eventually lose any all out war on the peninsula.

 

If only Joe Piscopo's career were alive to play Paul Manafort

 

That chicken is gonna meet the fire and the fury

 

Can say about the same thing for JFK

Cuban missile crisis: how the US played Russian roulette with nuclear war | Noam Chomsky

 

We've never taken out a leader of a nuclear country. We take other leaders out like surgeons take out appendixes.

Is it ANY wonder why leaders of U.S. enemies want nukes? It's the most rational desire they could have.

 

Agreed.

 

All he does is tweet. He's like a middle school girl. She knows everyone in the school but has no real friends just lots of acquaintances. so she just stirs things up with simplistic, jingoistic childish babble. There's no follow through on the tweets. He's all bark, no bite and has negotiated a substantive deal