“It’s time we deploy our most deadly weapons one at a time, just like we did in WW2.”
The danger I see in this (at least timing-wise, right now) is that, unlike in WWII, we now have several scary-crazy, barbaric enemies who ALSO have those deadly weapons. I think, particularly if even SOME other nations will commit along with us, that strategic, pre-emptive strikes with more conventional (but massive) firepower on their nuclear production facilities would work. It’s widely thought by intel that we don’t know where ALL of them are (some being hidden - where IS our intel, anyway?) But we could hit enough of them to put a major hurt on, if nothing else, buying us quite a bit more time to rally allies AND give a further warning to N. Korea in the process. Whatcha think?
We are past the point of no return here. For the most part, these nations will never change on their own. They will continue to try to build up against us and will destroy us when they can. This may be the best time to start a large-scale conflict.
The problem is that the US as a nation does not realize we are in a real war and what I mean by this is that we are in a war that must be fought on the same scale as almost every other war the USA has fought and that is a complete concerted effort by the people of the nation. We are at a point where we can either fight half-*ssed and eventually be crushed from the outside, or we can stand as bold and strong as we can muster and be completely wiped out or we can have total victory just like we had in WW2 and the cold war. The window is ever closing on the second option.