Hyberbole? Assumption?
If on 9-10-01 you publicly said that a bunch of rag heads in the desert of A-stan would take out the WTC and attack the heart of the USA - that too would have been ridiculed as hyperbole and assumption, even though Bin Laden declared war on us back in 1997 and attacked us time and again with no response.
Here the Norks have declared a state of war and have stated they were taking offensive positions to hit the USA as well as our allies. Today may very well be a kind of 9-10-01 in regards to the Norks.
The world smells our rot and understands how easily it would be to take us out by forcing an event that kicks out the glass legs holding up the house of cards our economy has become under the MarxoFascists.
Bin Laden himself stated that the way to defeat the USA is to force an event to cause our economy to collapse on itself and trigger the world to rule without any influence from us to keep the hard won peace after the Second World War. I’m sure the Communist Norks understand this - as do their Islamist allies in Tehran.
“Here the Norks have declared a state of war”
The U.S. and S.K. don’t disagree with that. There has never been a peace treaty, only an armistice. In the historical sense and in an international law sense, we have remained in a state of war all this time. The armistice is an agreement to SUSPEND hostilities, not end the state of war which awaits negotiations to reach a peace agreement, which has not happened to date.
The north is posturing, not stating some new condition.
This would not be the first time they said the armistice has been broken by mere military excersizes on the part of the U.S. and SK.
They want something - money, fuel, food, not a war.
But they will threaten the peace with their belligerent posturing in the hopes the threats alone get them something they want, particularly food, money & fuel; not a war.
“Bin Laden himself stated that the way to defeat the USA is to force an event to cause our economy to collapse on itself”
and it didn’t work, now did it???
“if on 9-10-01 you publicly said that a bunch of rag heads in the desert of A-stan would take out the WTC and attack the heart of the USA - that too would have been ridiculed as hyperbole”
no
the intelligence said the wanted to make some kind of fantastic attack on U.S. and/or U.S. interests, using airplanes - what the intelligence did not know was when, where and where and who were the agents who would try to do it
that was not hyperbole, it was also not actionable because of what it lacked, but it did mean that if they could carryout such an attack, it could be literally anywhere
again,
I don’t rule out many possibilities
but I do reject the speculations that too me are fanciful and predicting far more than is predictable