That “alliance” would never, ever happen.
As to the article itself, I find this very interesting. The bigger the first strike is, the more effective it will be. But the timelines on all of these things are what gets me. Is Trump seriously considering striking soon or not? How many years is he planning to wait in order to maximize local forces? How long is he going to give the DPRK to up its air defenses and improve its missiles and nuclear weapons, and increase their numbers?
One of the Military leaders said last week that they still have “tools” yet to go to increase the pressure on Kim...that the degree is about 5 or 6 now....
If this ends up a go...it will be far more detailed in the various things they will be doing all at the same time. As I believe when and if it’s a go it will be to end the Kim Regime in full. So there’s a lot being positioned to act if it comes to that.
“The bigger the first strike is, the more effective it will be. But the timelines on all of these things are what gets me. Is Trump seriously considering striking soon or not?”
There are numerous issues, probably most of which we don’t know. What we do know is North Korea has launched three satellites which cross over the continental US every ninety minutes. They aren’t for communications and their orbits would suggest they aren’t spy satellites. Since it is unlikely the Koreans launched dead weight we can probably assume they are EMP weapons. If they are detonated probably most of the people on life support or who required refrigeration or air conditioning would die. Virtually all automobiles running at the time would be fried. The electrical grid might be offline for days or weeks, as few trucks would be available. No phones. No computers. No internet. The cities would dissolve in riots. ‘
Several times the government has proposed legislation on power companies that would limit the damage. Each time power companies have engaged their lobbyists who contacted their pet Senators and each time the legislation has died in committees.
Most people suffer from normalcy bias. Because something has never happened it will never happen. Well, the North Korean dictator executes family with flame throwers and antiaircraft guns. Do we think he won’t kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of Americans if he could?
I’m okay with Trump’s schedule. Imagine if Obungo was still in charge. We are lucky they weren’t used when he was president. If they were somebody would have written a strongly worded protest...with a ball point pen.
Trump probably has an accelerated program for a weapon to take out those satellites. Nothing will happen until he is certain they won’t kill Americans. (I am okay with that.)