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No One Can Stop Trump From Waging Nuclear War With North Korea, Not Even His Generals (2017 article)
newsweek ^

Posted on 10/03/2022 4:01:28 PM PDT by MNDude

What was once just a nervous joke among Washington policymakers and military experts when Trump ran for the presidency has suddenly crept closer to a horrendous range of possibilities, judging from a Newsweek survey of former Pentagon officials and experts.

And no one knows where the confrontation is headed after weeks of increasingly personal insults and military provocations from both sides.

On September 26, four days after the Pentagon sent a flight of B-1 bombers and fighter escorts off North Korea in a display of military force, Pyongyang "moved a small number of fighter jets, external fuel tanks and air-to-air missiles to a base on its eastern coast," according to reports. Trump threatened Pyongyang once again, saying he was prepared for "a military option" to solve the crisis, which would be "devastating."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: 2017; chat; concerntroll; concerntrolls; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; emptythreat; emptythreats; fakenews; jeffstein; mediawingofthednc; northkorea; panicporn; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; ronklain; tds; trump

1 posted on 10/03/2022 4:01:28 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: MNDude

You should take the time fill out all the fields when posting articles. They are there for a reason.

By: Jeff Stein


2 posted on 10/03/2022 4:03:55 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: MNDude

NO NUCLEAR WAR.......TRUMP 2024......


3 posted on 10/03/2022 4:04:05 PM PDT by Be Careful
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To: MNDude

other past artcicles:

Donald Trump and the Threat of Nuclear War - The …
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/...
Nov 07, 2016 · November 7, 2016. By 2020—the fourth year of the next president’s first term—many American experts believe that North Korea will have stockpiled enough nuclear material to build roughly 100 ...

What’s standing between Donald Trump and nuclear …
https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/11/13903336/...
Dec 11, 2016 · The “Castle Romeo” nuclear test of a hydrogen bomb in the atmosphere over Bikini Atoll, Marshal Islands. Now that Donald Trump is officially the president of the United States, he is in ...

Trump Has Been Thinking About Nuclear War for …
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/trump...
Aug 11, 2017 · Trump worried both that nuclear war was likely and that nuclear weapons would not function properly. In an interview five years later, Trump was asked where he saw himself in five years. “Who ...

Distorting Trump on Nuclear War | National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/distorting-trump-nuclear-war
Sep 06, 2016 · Distorting Trump on Nuclear War. Via Chris Deaton of The Weekly Standard, I watched a new Priorities USA ad giving Trump the Dr. Strangelove treatment. It distorts Trump’s words at least twice ...

Does Donald Trump Believe Nuclear War Is Inevitable?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/donald...
Dec 08, 2016 · Trump’s fatalism regarding nuclear war goes back decades. During a 1990 interview with Playboy, he was asked about running for president (yes, even then) and to describe what “would be some of ...

Donald Trump’s nuclear fixation - from the 1980s to now
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40879868
Aug 10, 2017 · Donald Trump’s nuclear fixation - from the 1980s to now. Anthony Zurcher. North America reporter. @awzurcher. 10 August 2017. Getty Images. Protesters outside the White House call for a de ...

Trump’s Tweets Could Lead to Nuclear War, Says Former CIA ... - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-nuclear-war-twitter-president-654883
Aug 24, 2017 · President Donald Trump’s tweets could lead the United States to “stumble into a nuclear conflict with North Korea,” according to a former CIA agent who has begun a crowdfunding campaign to buy ...

Putin Ally Tells Americans: Vote Trump or Face …
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-ally...
Oct 12, 2016 · By Reuters. MOSCOW — Americans should vote for Donald Trump as president next month or risk being dragged into a nuclear war, according to a Russian ultra-nationalist ally of President Vladimir ...

Trump Terrible 10: Pro Sports Nuclear War Edition - HuffPost
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-terrible-10...
Sep 25, 2017 · Oh, and Trump continued to engage in a reckless exchange of taunts with the reckless leader of North Korea, thereby ratcheting up the danger of a massive nuclear war. Trump is again number one — the most disgraceful figure in the Trump administration.

Trump Thinks About Nukes a Lot, Doesn’t Know Much About Them
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/trump...
Aug 20, 2017 · In the midst of last week’s war of words with Kim Jong-un, Trump offered Americans the false assurance that he’s fixed up the U.S. nuclear arsenal in the past six months — though with well ...

Dear Donald Trump: This Is Why Nuclear Weapons Are …
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/dear-donald-trump...
Aug 03, 2016 · But this report, combined with other comments Trump has made about nuclear war in the past, form a rough-—and terrifying-—outline of what a potential Trump nuclear doctrine would be.

A nuclear war with North Korea could alter Earth’s climate for …
https://test.mashable.com/article/north-korea-nuclear-war-climate-change-winter
Aug 09, 2017 · Donald Trump. Nuclear war with North Korea ‘would be suicidal’, climate experts warn. There would be long-term climate change consequences if a regional nuclear war with North Korea breaks out. By Andrew Freedman on August 9, 2017. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Democrats introduce a bill to prevent Donald Trump from …
https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/...
Jan 24, 2017 · Senator Ed Markey and Rep. Ted Lieu introduced legislation intended to prevent President Donald Trump from using nuclear weapons in a first-strike scenario without the explicit approval of Congress on Tuesday. The legislation is titled the “Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017.” The two legislators issued a press statement on the bill co-signed by …

President Trump, North Korea and Nuclear War - JURIST
https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2017/08/president-trump-nuclear-war
Aug 14, 2017 · JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of the Purdue University College of Liberal Arts discusses President Donald Trump’s recent antics and how they will affect the potential for nuclear action…. Increasingly, Donald Trump is showing palpable signs of debility.Most worrisome, in this sobering display, is the president’s conspicuously proud …


4 posted on 10/03/2022 4:04:16 PM PDT by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your vocabulary, it all begins to make sense)
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To: MNDude

I miss President Trump.


5 posted on 10/03/2022 4:05:47 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: MNDude

I thought Trump was going to build Kim Jung-un a hotel resort on the NK coast.


6 posted on 10/03/2022 4:06:06 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: SpaceBar

I see that you are replying to MNDude, but I do not get the drift of your reply. Your reply does not make sense. Please expound


7 posted on 10/03/2022 4:06:39 PM PDT by Be Careful
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To: Be Careful

it makes no sense to me either. 😕


8 posted on 10/03/2022 4:13:06 PM PDT by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your vocabulary, it all begins to make sense)
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To: Be Careful

I think he means that when posting an article, you’re supposed to post the author, as well as the source of the article.


9 posted on 10/03/2022 4:15:29 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: MNDude; SpaceBar

Hey....just exactly who is Jeff Stein? Spacebar, you quoted Jeff Stein. Am now waiting to hear about Jeff Stein. Jeff must be not only an interesting person, but a special guy. Thanks, in advance.


10 posted on 10/03/2022 4:19:08 PM PDT by Be Careful
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To: MNDude

Pffffft. Close to being 180 degrees backwards. Trump came that || close to convincing the North Korean communist nutcase that his country would be better off if they gave up nuclear weapons.


11 posted on 10/03/2022 4:20:25 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: Be Careful

Jeff Stein is the author of the article.


12 posted on 10/03/2022 4:25:38 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

Thank you


13 posted on 10/03/2022 5:22:24 PM PDT by Be Careful
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To: Be Careful

Talk about a Motto that will make libs blow their gaskets.


14 posted on 10/03/2022 6:10:49 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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