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There Is No Longer Any Way to Halt North Korea’s Nuclear Program
Mother Jones ^ | August 4, 2017 | Kevin Drum

Posted on 08/04/2017 4:05:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: nevergore

Treaties go out the window when the rubber hits the road.


41 posted on 08/04/2017 5:04:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is the “new reality” for which the Left has worked so assiduously and unceasingly all these years. North Korea is now a nuclear state and there is nothing we can do about it.

And you can be sure the Left already has a strategy in place and ready to implement in order to undermine and defeat any actions President Trump might authorize to defend the USA and our allies from North Korean aggression.

Bottomline: The United States under President Trump’s leadership must be seen to be weak, ineffectual, on the “wrong track.” And if hundreds of thousands or millions of people must die to accomplish that objective, who’s counting?


42 posted on 08/04/2017 5:10:53 PM PDT by agave (5)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Read this. You may change your mind.

North Korea’s Lithium 6 Production for Nuclear Weapons
by David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Mark Gorwitz, and Allison Lach
March 17, 2017

43 posted on 08/04/2017 5:11:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

RS is engaging in wishful thinking.


44 posted on 08/04/2017 5:17:39 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If we have the coordinates onall those red dots and enough cruise missiles and bunker busters or, hell,small nukes, we can take care of the red dots and the silos- underground or not- before the Norks can do anything but die.


45 posted on 08/04/2017 5:20:16 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: gaijin

The speed of development suggests strongly that Russia and/or China is supplying hardware and software.


46 posted on 08/04/2017 5:21:41 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: kaktuskid

I’m convinced that Russia and their old USSR technicians plus a very limited amount of weapon grade materials are involved in this. That said, I hope we have a good collection of MOAB’s but our entire inventory of necessary weapons has been cut by Obama. Finally, how many officers are warriors? How many warriors have been bum rushed out of the Service?


47 posted on 08/04/2017 5:23:26 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: MarMema

I blame Bush. As a Republican he could have been expected to take out Norkea. A Democrat who mainstreamed effective Communism could not be expected to harm a men he sees as a model.


48 posted on 08/04/2017 5:23:42 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: MarMema

They say that “in so many words”. But yet they don’t actually say it. Carter, Clinton and Obama are most responsible


49 posted on 08/04/2017 5:31:40 PM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: Tallguy

There’s no way of halting NK’s nuclear program? You gotta fu***ng be kidding me. Let me count the ways.


50 posted on 08/04/2017 5:34:11 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: buckalfa
Can any one name an acknowledged nuclear power that America has attacked?

Nope. Which is why becoming a nuclear power is a priority.

51 posted on 08/04/2017 5:36:33 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: MarMema

I blame Bush. As a Republican he could have been expected to take out Norkea. A Democrat who mainstreamed effective Communism could not be expected to harm a men he sees as a model.


52 posted on 08/04/2017 5:37:24 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I don’t think the Democrats trusted them to act the way Republicans might trust them to act. Clinton and the Democrats got what they wanted. The Norks did what they were expected by all to do.


53 posted on 08/04/2017 5:39:06 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: JimSEA

MOAB’s are not deliverable except by cargo aircraft. Essentially that makes them useless in contested airspace.


54 posted on 08/04/2017 5:40:03 PM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: arthurus
I blame Bush. As a Republican he could have been expected to take out Norkea
Even if he wanted to he was just another sock puppet for the deep state that probably wouldn't let him.
55 posted on 08/04/2017 5:40:47 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Transgender: A person who thinks s/he's wrong side out.)
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To: agave
And you can be sure the Left already has a strategy in place and ready to implement in order to undermine and defeat any actions President Trump might authorize to defend the USA and our allies from North Korean aggression.

That, I agree, is the key issue. We could very well today be looking at the first actions of a soft coup in D.C. And, we should assume China, at least, is kept fully informed of its progress and its impact on our military capabilities.

Perhaps Trump has very good reason to include top military brass in his administration.

56 posted on 08/04/2017 5:42:19 PM PDT by frog in a pot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nuke ‘em till they glow.


57 posted on 08/04/2017 5:43:49 PM PDT by Gulf War One
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To: lewislynn

True, that.


58 posted on 08/04/2017 5:45:15 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: arthurus

Maybe Obama supplied it.


59 posted on 08/04/2017 5:53:19 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: arthurus

With our leadership?

“In two months, we will launch a surprise attack!” - Lindsey Grah*m (name obscured)


60 posted on 08/04/2017 5:57:56 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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