Add that David Petraeus is point man for the Senate Armed Services Committee, close to neocon nutjob McCain. Their role is to pursue endless war for profit and political cover.
Petraeus is a high profile deep state member that seeks not just war, but ‘prolonged’ conflict which is good for their business and for their politics. He is compromised and will do what he’s told.
The deep state was horrified when Mattis remarked he would take out NK in 15 minutes. They prefer years to minutes. Mattis was dead serious and he was not talking about using nuclear weapons, rather something still cloaked in secrecy, guessed to be Kinetic Energy Weapons launched as ‘Rods From God’ (search it) that originate in space and impact the ground with the force of atomic explosions but without the radioactivity.
Check out # 537 , then scroll back to # 532.
Thanks, Hostage. I recall the "fifteen minute" comment...
I”ve read about those on Thomas Wictor’s twitter. He says it was likely that the EQ/cave in/explosion or whatever it was, that killed 200 scientists and some underground nuke place in Nork was Rods from God.