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Originally Posted by Platapus
Right now, my fear is that Trump will try to divert attention from his administration by starting something with North Korea.
Unfortunately it is an old but very effective trick.
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What really is unfortunate is that anything done or not done on NK may prove to be the worst option one could have chosen. War strike, appeasement, assassination attempt, doing nothing - there are no good options left, ever yone of them is as dangerous as any of the others. All options still possible are extremely risky and dangerous.
I think best thing one can do is to roll a die. That way chances are fair at least, and fate cannot be complained about.
This is what happens if one lets small problems mature into big ones, and allows big ones to grow into critical ones. Already LaoTse warned against that.
Problems must be solved while they are still small and innocent.
We see what they are doing, and we do nothign and let it happen. We see they are swinging a nuclear weapon at our head, and we do nothing. We hear them threatening and cursing us, and we do not take it serious. We must have lost our brains. Or our cochones.
Simple truth is we betray ourselves with our military tehcnology. We may have the means to fight and win wars, but we are too shy and too softy now to use them even when we would not use them to impose our will on others, but to deny the other imposing his will on us. We put ourselves at shame.
Read this. LINK
That is so true that it hurts. We may have technology advanatge. But that means nothing. We lack the will to do what is necessary to win. In the past decades, relatively primitive warbands of often badly organised, technically inferior farmer's armies formed by untrained, simple men, defeated technically and training-wise hopelessly superior armies from the west, and kicked them back. Their onyl advantage was the ability and willingness to suffer whatever was needed to defeat their enemy. And thats what they did. They suffered, and the held out, and won. On the one or two occaisons were the West scored a military win, he allowed politics to turn it into an even worse, strategic defeat afterwards.
We may think of ourselves as being so highly civilised that we endlessly shy away from fighting war the way it must be fought if you want to win it. We are so sensible, so concerned, so educated, so great. Its only a question of time until some barbarian tribe comes along, does not speak, but simply cuts off our heads, throws them on the trash mountain of history and takes what was ours. Without comment.
We better quickly learn again that those refusing to hold a sword still can be killed by one. I have no hope whatever, however, that we will learn that.