Canada could be called on for troops in event of war with North Korea

Durry

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This is what the CBC article stated;

"hina quickly denied the reports on Friday, but the buildup, which multiple media reports say could also include Russian forces, comes as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike force now moves towards Korean waters."

So again, still not sure why Russia would get involved ???
 

Curious Cdn

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This is what the CBC article stated;

"hina quickly denied the reports on Friday, but the buildup, which multiple media reports say could also include Russian forces, comes as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike force now moves towards Korean waters."

So again, still not sure why Russia would get involved ???

You mean "due to a navigational error during the Second Watch, early this morning, a U.S. aircraft carrier strike force now moves towards Korean waters."


Whoops! Reciprocal bearing!
 

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This is what the CBC article stated;

"hina quickly denied the reports on Friday, but the buildup, which multiple media reports say could also include Russian forces, comes as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike force now moves towards Korean waters."

So again, still not sure why Russia would get involved ???

Again, I said that Russia will be watching. You are asking me a question that I cannot answer definitively. I did not write the article. The article did say that it "could" include Russian forces. That means no one knows.

If you would like me to hazard a guess, then I would say that since two other major powers would be involved, Russia will want to play too.
 

Durry

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If you would like me to hazard a guess, then I would say that since two other major powers would be involved, Russia will want to play too.

Yeah, that would be my best guess as well. I don't think Russia has issued an official statement on its position on this issue yet??

Seems like Russia is trying to make friends with US enemies tho.
 

Murphy

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Yeah, that would be my best guess as well. I don't think Russia has issued an official statement on its position on this issue yet??

Seems like Russia is trying to make friends with US enemies tho.

I am not aware of any official statement. Russia, like the US, will make friends, or more accurately, form an alliance with whoever agrees with, or serves their interests. WRT alliances, they are always changing.

I would ask everyone a simple question. You have at least three leaders, possibly more, who most feel aren't playing with a full deck. I suggest that they are not all crazy. There are checks and balances. There is theatre.

Who do you trust?

Donald Trump
Xi Jinping
Kim Jong Un
Vlad Putin
 

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Why is Russia involved in this issue???

The NK twit is threatening the US, I don't see why Russia would stick it's nose in this issue,,,anybody know???

Putin has the world's tiniest penis, and so he has to run forward wherever there's cameras and thrust his pale chest out and thump it manfully and point out how big his military is and how tough he is and give us all his John Wayne swagger so everyone looks at him.

NK is a problem, but who's sending the navy and drawing a line in the sand?? Trump.

If they quit sending the guy billions of dollars each year, they might be a start?

U.N. calls for $111 million for crucial aid for North Korea | Reuters

If they think for one minute the people who need it most are getting these millions of dollars, they have their heads up their asses.


The millions of dollars was the way the last administration kicked the problem can down the road. Money and food to appease the man child in North Korea for a time. The world has been kicking the can down the road for decades now. Eventually, the manchild is going to develop missiles so he can legitimately threaten to blow up New York or Rome or London, and then demand a lot more than money. Keep kicking the can down the road and you'll see what happens then.
 

Durry

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I am not aware of any official statement. Russia, like the US, will make friends, or more accurately, form an alliance with whoever agrees with, or serves their interests. WRT alliances, they are always changing.

I would ask everyone a simple question. You have at least three leaders, possibly more, who most feel aren't playing with a full deck. I suggest that they are not all crazy. There are checks and balances. There is theatre.

Who do you trust?

Donald Trump
Xi Jinping
Kim Jong Un
Vlad Putin

Trust most??
Donald Trump & Xi Jinping

Xi only real enemie is his own people.
 

damngrumpy

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Not if a war with North Korea the allies are still at war with North Korea. There was an
armistice not an end to war technically its still on and it will be a long war as well and
a lot will die for what this would be a needless conflict Kim is no crazier than the guy in
Washington
 

MHz

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Is that using the Navy that South Korea has yet to build?? or are we marching there???

Field Marshall DarkBeaver has a nice ring to it eh?
. . as does the echo of a high-powered sniper rifle.

'Heir' in the title would dress it up a bit, eyebrows would certainly lift no matter where you went.
 

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That's unlikely to be necessary. A war with North Korea would be over in a few weeks leaving millions of Koreans dead and both states on the Korean peninsula in ruins.



A war in North Korea will last as long as that war is creating massive profits for the military industrial complex.
 

Bar Sinister

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This is a US-China problem Let the two giants handle it, especially China. North Korea is that country's Frankenstein monster.
 

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This is what the CBC article stated;

"hina quickly denied the reports on Friday, but the buildup, which multiple media reports say could also include Russian forces, comes as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike force now moves towards Korean waters."

So again, still not sure why Russia would get involved ???

Because Vladivostok, the port city is next door to NK and is home to Russia's Pacific Fleet and if the Americans dropped a nuke on NK, and depending on which way the wind is blowing, it would blanket Vladivostok.


The US could literally blow North Korea off the map using tactical nuclear weapons based in Japan, South Korea and at sea with the 7th Fleet. Or delivered by B-52 and B-1 bombers and cruise missiles. But this would cause clouds of lethal radiation and radioactive dust to blanket Japan, South Korea and heavily industrialized northeast China, including the capital, Beijing.

China would be expected to threaten retaliation against the United States, Japan and South Korea to deter a nuclear war in next door Korea. At the same time, if heavily attacked, a fight-to-the-end North Korea may fire off a number of nuclear-armed medium-range missiles at Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa and South Korea. These missiles are hidden in caves in the mountains on wheeled transporters and hard to identify and knock out.

This is a huge risk. Such a nuclear exchange would expose about a third of the world’s economy to nuclear contamination, not to mention spreading nuclear winter around the globe.

A conventional US attack on North Korea would be far more difficult.

Hundreds of North Korean long-range 170mm guns and rocket batteries are buried into the hills facing the DMZ, all within range of the northern half of South Korea’s capital, Seoul.

North Korea is unlikely to be a pushover in a war. Even after US/South Korean forces occupy Pyongyang, the North has prepared for a long guerilla war in the mountains that could last for decades. They have been practicing for 30 years. Chaos in North Korea will invite Chinese military intervention, but not necessarily to the advantage of the US and its allies.

https://ericmargolis.com/2017/04/what-would-korean-war-ii-look-like/



 

Curious Cdn

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Not if a war with North Korea the allies are still at war with North Korea. There was an
armistice not an end to war technically its still on and it will be a long war as well and
a lot will die for what this would be a needless conflict Kim is no crazier than the guy in
Washington

The "allies" in this case consist of the United Nations.