North Korea Thread: DPRK Launching Missiles With New ICBM

[MoneyTron]

The issue is that he is ad libbing and tweeting these things off the cuff.

Exactly. Past presidents might have angled for the same result ie telling NK to stand down but they did it without the inflammatory rhetoric that Trump uses.

It shows a lack of awareness, as if he doesn't know his words can set off wars just as easily as they stop them.

 

[levitate]

And this is exactly why other nations want nukes. And why they should have them.

 

[thekingsmen]

It's different these days.

It could still be prevented...

But with Trump, it's different.

There's nothing more I have to say.

Same tactics, nothing has changed.

 

[thekingsmen]

I really don't see why the tinfoilists constantly defend Trump.

Show me where this is true...

 

[thekingsmen]

The issue is that he is ad libbing and tweeting these things off the cuff.

So because it's on twitter it makes it worse? No.

 

[thekingsmen]

Why is it defending someone when someone points out something that has happened before?

Many ppl on this site started "following" politics recently, so they don't understand a lot of the bs this president is doing is the same shyt that has been down under Obama, bush, Clinton, bush, etc.
You'd almost think that they were just...um...puppets huh?

But naw, this time it's "different" because THIS president has a twitter account.


The sooner you realize that they are all more alike than different the better everyone will be, and the sooner there can be real protest and change. But until then, well all just stay divided and fighting each other while they laugh it off.

The foolish minds act like Trump is the only president to do something new that has never been done before.

 

[newarkhiphop]

:Fukwrong:

 

[thekingsmen]

Act like Trump does shyt on his own...
NBC's Brian Williams: "Our Job Is To Scare People To Death" Over North Korea | Zero Hedge

On Tuesday night MSNBC's Brian Williams bluntly told his panel on the channel's flagship prime time program, The 11th Hour, that "our job tonight actually is scare people to death" over North Korea. The remarks came in the midst of a vigorous discussion which included Andrea Mitchell giving a detailed description of what the potential death toll on the Korean peninsula might be should a ballistic missile exchange occur. The panel also included MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance, to which Williams' remarks were specifically directed.
Williams begins his revealing comment at the 2:00 mark.
In response to Williams' unexpected and very revealing comment, Mitchell appeared to shake her head, though it's unclear if she was approving or disapproving of what he actually said - there was no push back by the panelists or attempt to seek clarification on Williams' words.
Though the world is currently witnessing a dangerous and escalating war of words between President Trump and the so-called hermit kingdom, mainstream media reporting has long been driven by simplistic fear mongering concerning the geopolitical dynamics driving tensions in the region. The American public is generally woefully uneducated regarding to history of US-North Korean tensions and war.

Brian Williams: "our job tonight actually is scare people to death on this subject".
According to the 20th century theologian and political commentator Reinhold Niebuhr, fear is a prime means which leading public institutions and elites utilize to keep the masses loyal. Fear and sensationalized coverage is also good for ratings and advertising revenue. Niebuhr says society's "myth-makers" - an apt description of today's major corporate media - constantly give us mere illusions divorced from truth:

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep the ordinary person on course.​

While the media's job ought to be the at all costs investigative uncovering of truth and accurate analysis in its role as the Fourth Estate, Brian Williams apparently thinks it's his and NBC's job to induce constant fear in the public. He openly stated just that.
Last April, Williams was widely mocked on social media for his comments in response to Trump's bombing Syria. Responding to a Pentagon video which showed US cruise missiles being launched on an airfield in Syria, he said live on MSNBC that he found himself “tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen: ‘I’m guided by the beauty of our weapons.”

 

[dza]

:Fukwrong:

what the fukk

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

for what and yea I'm aware of the situation down there

 

[Alpha Male]

Exactly. Past presidents might have angled for the same result ie telling NK to stand down but they did it without the inflammatory rhetoric that Trump uses.

It shows a lack of awareness, as if he doesn't know his words can set off wars just as easily as they stop them.

If NK ever attacked the US it's all but common knowledge that we would hit them back as hard as we could, regardless who the president is.

Trump is just stating the obvious. Don't see how it's 'inflammatory'.

 

[thekingsmen]

http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-stockpile-minerals-worth-trillions-2017-6

North Korea is sitting on trillions of dollars of untapped wealth, and its neighbors want in

North Korea May Have Two-Thirds of World’s Rare Earths

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Trump out here wildin' ...

There's gotta be a few dozen Republicans with the balls to remove him if he takes one more step closer to insanity.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

your first problem is you're assuming present relations would stand

if we dropped 10 fukking nukes on NK everything goes out the door

to say japan wouldn't make the slightest move against us

maybe they do, maybe they don't, but you don't know. historically speaking it's safe to assume nuclear weapons would make the japanese nervous.

the insanity of the US dropping 10 nukes on a territory might cause the US to lose ALL allies and shake up ALL present global geopolitical alliances

there really is no logical way to answer this question

edit: not to mention the nuclear fall out and radiation poisoning that would plague south asia for the next 2 generations.

the most realistic outcome is a 30 year reset button is pushed on society.

hope yall ready for the resurgence of disco

Japan gonna move on us with the military they don't even have?

Both of those nations have tens of thousands of US troops sitting in their borders right now.

I'm not saying that our allies would "like" what we do. But there is NO scenario where South Korea or Japan join a war on North Korea's side.

It's like saying that Saudi Arabia and Israel were on the verge of joining forces with Saddam Hussain were the US invaded, cause they're all Arabish, right?