Donald Trump is reported by some media to have responded to the North Korean threat to' make the US pay' for its new sanctions program. while everybody else on earth views the North Koreans as all talk and very little effective shelling, Trump had to respond in in kind - threatening an American response of "fire and fury", this after US 'scientists' conceived that the North Koreans had advanced miniaturization processes in hand and had, in fact, produced an atomic warhead small enough to fit into the nose of the artillery rockets they have been firing into inner space of late. Is it now also believed that those rockets, if fired on the same kind of trajectory as most other ICBMs, could travel as far as Chicago.
Other US agencies were announcing a willingness to talk to North Korea if they promised to stop launching missiles. And yet others were taking some delight in the prospect of costing North Korea a billion dollars a year in truncated exports - essentially we are told the USA was shutting down the North Korean sea food industry - as well of course as enduring they will be blackballed by anybody peddling weapons or electronic technology. So I guess when the gargantuan TV on Kim il Sung square goes on the blink, they'll be scrambling for some circuit boards and switches. That should serve them right!
When the Norks actually did stop launching more missiles (at least the ones they said they were planning to shoot towards Wake) the CinC congratulated them on being "wise" (good cop) , the Sec State (bad cop) said he'd be willing to talk but that it would take "a little more" something from the Norks. They gave three short-range rockets as a reply (but they all 'failed' (yay!))
One has to wonder what, in all this, did the North Koreans do to 'break the agreement' they had made with Clinton's America? That saw them go from "world threat" to "world charity case" in less than three years. It also saw them allow US technicians to 'assist' in dismantling their sole nuclear reactor and, as far as was evident by inspection, stop developing Uranium towards making a weapon. George Bush moved into the White House and before the dust settled on the WT complex, the Norks were again "pariahs" and "threats" and the US was reneging on whatever Clinton had agreed to do.
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| A Nork Nuke funny |
They started work again. rebuilding their reactor and, by the time Obama took over the fear mongering, they had detonated a real bomb. Since then, 'the threat' has only gotten worse, exacerbated perhaps by the thought that , if they kept it up, they might be tempted to nuke America rather than Seoul, or Tokyo. To-day, according to Trumpco, they can. And the US military, we were told last week waits only for the go signal.
When you Google "North Korea Nuke" this is the first image that isn't a 'real' rocket photo or a cartoon. Even this is a photo=montage creation - for,you see, there is precious little evidence of Pyong yang's Nukes, either. Hopefully that's enough to stop a war , as well as to start one?
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| The 'situation' for Long Dong Clinton |
The question remains - how lucky do we feel?
Gone from America's media is Syria - a perfectly good peoples' rising against tyranny has gone 'poof'. Oh sure there is still stuff happening over there. The USAF is custom-bombing Raqqa, the Marines are bringing in equipment 'for themselves' (and the Syrian Kurds). But things have gone to hell in a handcart down in the Jordanian border - where a little incident (two weeks ago) involving some 'retreating' freedom fighters being 'ambushed' trying to cross into Jordan, parlayed itself into a fight between factions and, a few days ago, a fairly significant desertion (with all their equipment) by one group of America's 'anti-Assad' heroes.
So far, whatever agreement about Syria that Trump made with Putin seems to be holding. and while it does, the Assad forces are making significant inroads in blocking future coalition moves to 'grab territory', while putting some significant dents in ISIS land. It would appear that Assad is moving toward the relief of Deir ez Zor and clearing the rest of the Iraq border. But none of this matters to American news sources for the news isn't good. They need another good 'gassing' while somebody still remembers the hokum about the last one. (actually there was an attempt again to launch an 'Assad dunnit' news story. This once complete with the standard gasping babies and water hose decontamination procedures - flopped. It didn't make the front page anywhere, maybe even not onto the 'beautiful baby- cruise missile strike calculator'.
Meanwhile America has shifted focus to considering a bunch of 'initiatives': somebody's got the military option for Venezuela out for a 'boo'. 'Defensive' lethal weapons ( how are they different from offensive lethal weapons?) are 'on the table' for EUkrainia. And just to show how much we care , the NATO contingent ( un-armed eh?) marched in EUkraine's national independence day military parade. Hopefully the Ukrainian 'elite' units (they didn't seem to be lacking much lethal equipment) were around for the post-parade party, before shipping-out for some 'blooding' in the 'ostfront'. The message for Putin 'ist klaaar' - Barbarossa only sleeps.
Addendum:
One of the side stories coming out of the Nork's threat to whirled piece is the answer to the question "How'd they do that?' The answer being, they bought the rocket technology from somebody.
What somebody? Probably directed by Putin's goons, the finger initially pointed at Ukraine - purveyor of rockets parts and engines to everybody engaged in space activity. The Ukrainians naturally denied doing it and fingered the Russians who, it was claimed, had three or four Ukrainian-made roman candles that they hadn't bothered to shoot upwards. The russkies must have sold them to the Norks.
To-day another double back-cover story floating out of EUkrainia with all the eyes dotted and fingers crossed: the saga of how Ukraine duped the Norks into stealing phony rocket plans and got hem doing it on tape.
Ecce evidencia
