Posted on 04/17/2017 7:22:03 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
What exactly would amount to an unacceptable provocation?
Help me out here. I thought the whole reason we were sending a strike force to the Korean Peninsula was the possibility that Bowl Cut Jr. was going to launch or otherwise attempt to test a missile - and that either the Chinese needed to stop him from doing that, or we would.
“Day of the Sun” came and went, and it looked like the Norks had backed down, but then early Sunday the attempted to launch the missile after all. That . . . did not go well:
There is talk among the media that the US hacked the NK missile system and caused the failure...
Maybe you’re not suppose to know some things. This is not the Obama administration.
Any complaints?
I now believe Kushner and Pence were couriers.
Any head of a nuclear state threatening to attack America with a nuke. That could do it.
I have a suspicion that fat boi Kim ordered the launch be aborted immediately after firing.
The fat little doofus is scared shitless.. IMO.
I’m now looking for a provocation that will allow Trump to set off the fireworks. A real provocation or a false-flag... I care not at all.
This crap has to stop before that hermit kingdom has the ability to blackmail the entire planet.
Launching a missile amounted to an unacceptable provocation.
They launched or otherwise attempted to test a missile - and many contend either the Chinese stopped him from doing that, or we did.
“Day of the Sun” came and went, the Norks did not back down, then early Sunday they attempted to launch the missile after all and it was promptly destroyed.
[Text of answer a slight edit of the original question.]
So what’s the problem? Now Kim Dong-nil doesn’t know if his precious missile failed because of raging incompetence of his engineers (who suffer a rapidly lowering average IQ because he keeps killing off the best), or because pissed-off superpowers wield near-magical* weapons that can invisibly destroy his precious missiles within seconds of launch, an asymmetry of military capability which should give him terminal cognitive dissonance any day now.
(* - “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” A. C. Clarke)
Exactly - the author sounds like a war-monger and would probably be screaming bloody murder if we actually took offensive action.
Trump (and Pence) are sending the NORKS/Chinese/Russians a bold MESSAGE and trying to get them to see the light before too many end up seeing the nuclear flash that is sure to come if the NORKs and Iran are not dealt with.
I think it would be funny if we could hack NK’s launches so that when it’s activated, a huge flag with either “BANG!” or “MAGA” pops out.
I don’t think his ego could handle “launch and abort”.
I _do_ think it made for an excellent test of an x-ray laser: no physical evidence, instant long-range shot, only takes a small amount of damage to cause the missile to tear itself apart.
Either way the fat little doofus is scared $#!^less.
Trump doesn’t want fireworks. He wants a clean, fast, decisive conclusion: either Kim Dong-nil gives up his WMD BS, or someone close to him sees the existential crisis and takes him out leaving China to come in and clean up the mess. If there’s fireworks, the “shock and awe” will put Bush to shame, and still leaves China to come in and clean up the mess.
China does that, and we treat them like our best friend.
If we have x-ray lasers with that accuracy, why didn’t we shine it on the little toad.
Usually a missile test means the Norks want us to write a check.
I don’t think they’re going to get those checks anytime soon.
I did not consider a laser shot....but it is a possibility.
I think it would be funny if one bunker buster took out N Korea's missile assembly capability and another took out NK's nuclear weapon's capability.
Then if the bowl cut half pint even wines, send one for him. And then tell the Chinese and the Russians: you didn't stop it, we did.
The value, at this point in military weapons history, lies in its deniability.
If the little toad suddenly explodes, there’s reason to believe whodunnit and respond how we don’t want response; much of his top advisors are presumably loyal and would follow thru on the MAD attack on Seoul.
If the missile, a highly predictable target, just suddenly explodes the value of apparent incompetence/failure is much more useful toward causing the regime to implode thoroughly.
The perpetual caveat in all this: 30,000 artillery pieces pointed at Seoul and prepared to level the world-class city of ten million inhabitants in 30 minutes.
The goal is to win this battle without an apparent shot fired.
If someone interfered & caused this to happen,wouldn’t it have been better to let it gain a little altitude & then turn it back to the approximate target of Pyongyang?
It’s very difficult to build operational ICBMs when the developement and assembly personnel get murdered every time there’s a mishap. It’s hard to train new people and despite popular belief terror does not make people more productive.
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