Qadaffi tried to make nice w/ the west, and all it did was get him killed
North Korea says first intercontinental ballistic missile test successful
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Qadaffi tried to make nice w/ the west, and all it did was get him killed
blackascoal
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So did Saddam .. same result.
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
U.S. Has Few Good Options on Dealing With North Korea
When then-President-elect Trump said on Twitter in early January that a North Korean test of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States “won’t happen!” there were two things that he still didn’t fully appreciate: How close Kim Jong-un was to reaching that goal, and how limited any president’s options were to stop him.
The ensuing seven months have been an education for Mr. Trump. With North Korea’s July 4 launch, the country may, analysts say, have crossed that threshold, with a missile that could potentially reach Alaska.
Mr. Kim’s aggressive testing shows that a more definitive demonstration that he can reach the American mainland cannot be far away, even if it may be a few years before he can fit a nuclear warhead onto his increasingly powerful missiles. But for Mr. Trump and his national security team, today’s technical milestone simply underscores tomorrow’s strategic dilemma.
A North Korean ability to reach the United States, as former Defense Secretary William J. Perry noted recently, “changes every calculus.” The fear is not that Mr. Kim would launch a pre-emptive attack on the West Coast; that would be suicidal, and if the 33-year-old leader has demonstrated anything in his five years in office, he is all about survival. But if Mr. Kim has the potential ability to strike back, it would shape every decision Mr. Trump and his successors will make about defending America’s allies in the region.
It would, as one former top American intelligence official noted recently, color every military decision and put enormous pressure on American missile defenses that few trust to work.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-has-few-good-options-on-dealing-with-north-korea/ar-BBDLiwB
The knowledge that Trump has few options to respond to the NK missile test .. is that like defending North Korea .. you fucking morons?
When then-President-elect Trump said on Twitter in early January that a North Korean test of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States “won’t happen!” there were two things that he still didn’t fully appreciate: How close Kim Jong-un was to reaching that goal, and how limited any president’s options were to stop him.
The ensuing seven months have been an education for Mr. Trump. With North Korea’s July 4 launch, the country may, analysts say, have crossed that threshold, with a missile that could potentially reach Alaska.
Mr. Kim’s aggressive testing shows that a more definitive demonstration that he can reach the American mainland cannot be far away, even if it may be a few years before he can fit a nuclear warhead onto his increasingly powerful missiles. But for Mr. Trump and his national security team, today’s technical milestone simply underscores tomorrow’s strategic dilemma.
A North Korean ability to reach the United States, as former Defense Secretary William J. Perry noted recently, “changes every calculus.” The fear is not that Mr. Kim would launch a pre-emptive attack on the West Coast; that would be suicidal, and if the 33-year-old leader has demonstrated anything in his five years in office, he is all about survival. But if Mr. Kim has the potential ability to strike back, it would shape every decision Mr. Trump and his successors will make about defending America’s allies in the region.
It would, as one former top American intelligence official noted recently, color every military decision and put enormous pressure on American missile defenses that few trust to work.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-has-few-good-options-on-dealing-with-north-korea/ar-BBDLiwB
The knowledge that Trump has few options to respond to the NK missile test .. is that like defending North Korea .. you fucking morons?
Buckly J. Ewer
Racism Whistleblower
Trump is totally flummoxed by N K...
He has no idea what to do...
China will never discipline their pet...
They watch in amusement as the orange clown flails...
He has no idea what to do...
China will never discipline their pet...
They watch in amusement as the orange clown flails...
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
He did quite well until the Socialists decided to kill him.
Buckly J. Ewer
Racism Whistleblower
No money angle in it...
Nobody wants their reputations permanently tarnished.
I guess treating Xi Jinping to chocolate cake at Miralago wasn't the best foreign policy strategy after all. Or maybe it would have worked if Trump hadn't insisted on having the bigger piece of cake and adding two scoops of ice cream while forcing Xi Jinping to have one. Or maybe he forced Xi Jinping to eat meatloaf.
All of which Trump has been known to do to play macho-head games with the people around him.
All of which Trump has been known to do to play macho-head games with the people around him.
Reagan bombed him, Obama bombed him...and he was in good standing with the world community
I thought he already did? Remember his tweet in February, "It won't happen".
to U.S. officials, it was a most unwelcome surprise: a weapon with intercontinental range, delivered years before most Western experts believed such a feat possible.
Hours after the apparently successful test, intelligence agencies continued to run calculations to determine precisely how the missile, dubbed the Hwasong-14, performed in its maiden flight. But the consensus among missile experts was that North Korea had achieved a long-sought milestone, demonstrating a capability of striking targets thousands of miles from its coast.
I Government and independent analyses showed the missile traveling in a steep arc that topped out at more than 1,740 vertical miles above the Earth’s surface.
If flown in a more typical trajectory, the missile would have easily traveled 4,000 miles, potentially putting all of Alaska within its range, https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ea80e32bf47_story.html?utm_term=.1e4837bf40bd
Hours after the apparently successful test, intelligence agencies continued to run calculations to determine precisely how the missile, dubbed the Hwasong-14, performed in its maiden flight. But the consensus among missile experts was that North Korea had achieved a long-sought milestone, demonstrating a capability of striking targets thousands of miles from its coast.
I Government and independent analyses showed the missile traveling in a steep arc that topped out at more than 1,740 vertical miles above the Earth’s surface.
If flown in a more typical trajectory, the missile would have easily traveled 4,000 miles, potentially putting all of Alaska within its range, https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ea80e32bf47_story.html?utm_term=.1e4837bf40bd
There is a whole lot more that China can do before we resort to an act of war.
I'm sorry to say that I have more confidence in China and Russia than I do in America in solving this.
The international community either hates Trump or thinks he's a joke.
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
.. or both.
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
Only 55% of millenials supported the Hillbag.
That's just over halfKeep promoting the liberal lies and cheating candidates like Bernie; it's working
Only 37% supported the orange frog .. and I'm betting that his record-setting low ass poll numbers reflect that his numbers with millennials has gone down even further.
Oh looky ...
AS FIRST 100 DAYS NEARS, PRESIDENT TRUMP APPROVAL RATING AT 32% WITH YOUNG AMERICANS, HARVARD POLL FINDS
As the first 100 days of the administration nears, 32% of 18 to 29 year old Americans approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance overall, according to a new national poll by Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP).
The IOP’s 33rd major poll release since 2000 also shows that young Americans’ approval of President Trump’s handling of the economy is at 37%. Furthermore on other issues, the poll finds his approval of dealing with ISIS at 33%, health care at 30%, climate change at 28% and performance on race relations at 27%.
http://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/harvard-iop-spring-17-poll