Psychological Warfare Is Very Important At The Peak Of A Standoff.

Where did the USS Carl Vinson or the “armada” that was “steaming” full speed ahead toward North Korea disappear to? As I was looking over the news I was shocked to read it was on its way to the Sea of Japan. That is exactly where Vice President Pence is today. Pence did a wonderful and honorable job in South Korea for the American people. He spoke directly to the Kim Dynasty when he said “all options were on the table.” The Kim Dynasty also includes Lil’Kim’s sister, who has as much influence in North Korea as Kim.

So President Trump spoke of his “armada steaming” toward the Country, and it was. However, Trump has said over and over again that he would not “telegraph” his intentions in making military decisions and moves. I used to wonder why the Obama Administration did that.

Cai Jian, an expert from the Center for Korean Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, said the whole episode was part of an elaborate game of “psychological warfare or bluffing” by the United States. He argued that Washington never really intended to launch a military strike on North Korea right now.

“At the peak of the standoff, psychological warfare is very important,” he said.

Ross Babbage, a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessments, a Washington-based think tank that focuses on the military, said the move may be “military signaling” by the United States.

“It’s more than a bluff,” he said. “A bluff suggests you’re not serious. My understanding is that this U.S. administration is dead serious. It’s been 40 years of trying to get the North Koreans to back away from the nuclear weapons.”

IWB is NOT on the excerpt list.
Here is the balance of the article -

Babbage said it was also possible that the Trump administration had decided to give China a little time to put its own pressure on North Korea before sending the carrier strike group north. Trump met his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, on April 6 and 7 and spoke by phone with him on April 11, and may have wanted to give the Chinese some breathing space to before “rattling the bars,” Babbage said.

Mattis said the U.S. administration was working closely with China to address the issue of North Korea’s nuclear program.

“You’re aware that the leader of North Korea again recklessly tried to provoke something by launching a missile,” Mattis told reporters Tuesday on his way to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “It shows why we’re working so closely right now with the Chinese coming out of the Mar-a-Lago meeting .?.?. to try to get this under control and to aim for a denuclearized Korean Peninsula that China and the United States, South Korea and Japan all share that same interest in.”

While the belief that the Carl Vinson was heading toward Korea was reported as fact by media outlets around the world, there were hints it was perhaps not steaming there as fast as many supposed. On April 11, U.S. Naval Institute News reported that although the carrier had canceled port calls in Australia, it had not scrubbed training events to move faster toward the Korean Peninsula, and would still take more than a week to enter waters near Korea — a point that was lost amid heated talk of “war.”

This has taught me to listen more and talk less. President Trump and his Administration are on top of what needs to be done militarily in our Nation’s defense, and I need to trust that they are doing the job they are trained to do. Thank you, President Trump, Vice President Pence, and the United States Military.

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https://youtu.be/CQ_aDyAd16k

It’s been 40 years of trying to get the North Koreans to back away from the nuclear weapons.

Um, no. Bill Clinton did exactly the opposite--he gave them the green light to go full steam ahead with their nuclear weapons development. And they did.

And let us never forget that not only did Obama do the same for Iran, he gave them billions of dollars for their program.

It seems that Democrat presidents are extremely bad for the cause of world peace.

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