Must have been on the same student track as Obama.
Posted on 08/11/2017 11:43:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Did Donald Trump really just walk us to the brink of war with North Korea on a whim this week, or has this all been a figment of our lurid imagination? It seems crazy to contemplate that the world now stands on the edge of disaster because the American president simply lacks self-control. And yet that’s exactly the discussion on the table.
Trump’s bizarre statements about “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” coupled with the follow-up press conference in which he declared a “whole new ballgame” and doubled down on his apparently extemporaneous threats against the North Korean regime should chill the bones of every military family and every American with a child of draft age.
Trump talks in many ways exactly as Kim Jong Un does—in disjointed statements full of bellicose hyperbole. He blusters in a clear effort to shore up his flagging ego; to make himself seem strong when in fact he is weak; an isolated, morose figure lumbering from self-named golf course to self-named golf course and imprisoned by the office whose grandeur he cannot measure up to. He screams into the ether to try and push back the void, when the void is deep inside him.
He is a bitter, angry, frightened man, cornered by prosecutors, rejected by a majority of Americans, declaring his leaking aides are merely fighting to prove who loves him the most and yet unsure which of his former lieutenants—or maybe even family members—will sell him out to save themselves. His dream of finally commanding global respect by becoming president of the United States and of besting his obsession, Barack Obama, has collapsed before his first year in office is even complete.
His sycophant lieutenants believe the country should respond by lining up behind the Narcissist in New Jersey, comparing his North Korea bluster to the Cuban missile crisis. In fact, it is the inverse: President Kennedy in that crisis answered Soviet brinksmanship, he didn’t provoke it.
Donald Trump is a weakened president, and a man not prone to controlling his impulses. Given his temperament, personality, and looming legal predicament, there is literally no telling what a cornered Donald Trump will say or do. And in the case of North Korea, his bluster is aimed at a man who has killed his own family members to preserve his absolute power, and who waves the threat of nuclear war around like a hand grenade with the pin pulled out, sometimes just to demand the world supply the nation he is starving, with grain. To threaten war with such a regime is, to put it bluntly, an act of insanity. No wonder Trump’s own administration are pleading with the world to ignore him.
There’s good reason. Make no mistake: War with North Korea would be a cataclysm. The Hermit Kingdom possesses long range missiles that could in theory reach the American mainland and apparently, miniaturized nukes, too. Ten million souls live in the shadow of the Kim regime in Seoul, South Korea, including nearly 29,000 American troops. The media walking us through the potential bombers and bombing routes, as if reigniting the active Korean War is a thing to be contemplated by rational minds is almost as barmy as Trump’s pronouncements. And yet, with Trump in office, what choice is there?
Wait, weren’t the Dems foaming at the mouth to go to war with Russia just weeks ago?
I thought this was outrageous at first, but we should not try to get logical with this idiot. She is too far gone with whatever she has.
LOL! No worries about the little fat one’s explicit nuclear threats, but oh-so-worried that Trump opts not to help him develop better nukes - like Clinton, to an extent, Bush, and Obama did...
I wonder how this low IQ broad feels about Billy Clinton and Madeline Not-so-bright?
They’re the ones responsible for this mess.
I’m sure Joyless Reid loves those two.
This racist POS panders to the mostly left leaning stupid and ignorant that watch this MSNBC. I suppose they think MSNBC will retroactively free the slaves and make sure the others receive a check.
She is a perfect example of “Lip Stick on a Pig”.
Were talking one ugly person,inside and out.
Could easily find itself with wars on both sides.
I truly believe that it is democrats who are trying to remove us from the earth. They’ve been out to kill us since WWII.
Stopped reading after “Remove.”
Naggers, don’t they ever just STFU?
It's a figment of your imagination.
The only one pushing us towards nuclear war is Kim Jong Eun, and he has been doing that since long before Trump came on the scene.
The fact is, North Korea has never stopped trying to attack South Korea.
Perhaps Miss Reid should take some time to visit the DMZ. It's a fascinating tour, where you learn all about the various belligerent attempts that North Korea makes all the time on South Korea, to the tune of hundreds per year. I doubt Miss Reid would have the courage to go on such a tour. For one, it might challenge her liberal beliefs. For another, she's probably too much of a coward--you have to sign a release before going into the Joint Security Area, because you could be unlucky enough to visit on a day when the Norks are feeling particularly belligerent.
Miss Reid desperately needs some history lessons. Trump did not create the situation, Obama and Bush did nothing about it, and Bill Clinton treasonously helped the Norks.
Where do you get that info? I eyed to bone up.
Eyed = need
No, North Korea walked us to the brink of war.
Get off the sauce, b%^ch!
Must have been on the same student track as Obama.
“I think that China is in no mood to see things escalate to where China and the US come to a point where the US uses trade against China as leverage.”
Absolutely correct. Thank God we have a president that understands this.
Yake her “mike” away and send her back out on working the streets.
Liberals/democrats/socialists like Obama and Clinton appeasing N Korea got us to this point now where we are an inch away from world thermonuclear war.
China and Russia will back N Korea or will get in on it when the shooting starts.
democrats are blaming Trump for what Clinton and Obama did as they allowed N Korea to build nuclear weapons.
Obama did the same with Iran.
And no, I didn't read this article prior to commenting.
Am I missing something? Yet another enemy camp communique? Right?
But thanks for keeping us up to speed on what the lousy miserable wretches are spewing about the present occupant of highest United States executive branch office.
HUMINT is almost easy with that crowd, They can't shut up.
It's the behind-the-scenes manipulations that are more vexing. You know, like how guys like Soros fund the liberals (actually non 'classically liberal' Statist Left-wingers) who think mankind can legislate it's way to Nirvana Utopia free stuff for everybody save the Erf G.W.Bush and now Trump are trying to kill everybody.
OMG Let us pray panic. Only histrionics can save us now! There oughta' be a law. Only the good guys (on the left) should be allowed to to talk.
Google agrees. Jeff Bezos agrees(?). The Hildabeast most assuredly agrees. NPR concurs also. How could all those "smart" people be wrong? Just remember Her Herness's "smart power". That proves everything!
Thanks, for the link.
A very interesting read.
In particular I found this, worth noting: “One of the South Korean soldiers who participated in Operation Paul Bunyan, Moon Jae-in, was elected President of South Korea in 2017.[22]”
Reading can be educating!
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