Trump can start a nuclear war any time he wants

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Trump should be careful or the DC swamp he is relaxing in will end up looking like this.
 

WLDB

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He can. So can half a dozen other heads of state. I doubt he will for the same reason no one else ever has - mutually assured destruction is still a thing. He's pretty erratic and hard to predict but I suspect he wants to live. Most people do.
 

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A night janitor at Mar-a-Lago could start a nuclear war too. Finds the old nuclear football lost behind a fern and says to his co-worker, hey let's toss around the old pigskin. Next thing you know, they've raided the wine cellar and are doing doughnuts around the 8th hole green in golf carts, hurling the nuclear football back and forth.
 

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One thing for sure, if there is any nuclear weapon used anywhere .. just one, even ... we won't be talking about it on here because the Internet will be down for quite a period due to hack attacks, security considerations or those two and more. We won't be yackity-yacking about it. I expect that the various security forces of every country will be going over social media traffic with a fine tooth comb looking for people to round up and intern.
 

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they'll take the workers first...^
;)

Not to worry
one third of the raytheon missiles DIDN"T EXPLODE
hahah
chinese crap!!!!
 

Danbones

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Trouble is the whole world knows its the US starting this and they are going to all jump on the US in return
while the ones behind it all will sit back somewhere else and
LAUGH

BTW just for example:
The US contains 104 nuclear reactors and they are all overdue.
26 are the same as Fukyoushima
...so all they have to do is turn the power off for a few weeks and it will be all over.

no delivery system needed

...and that's just one vector...
then there are 33 million or so illegal immigrants
guns can't stop them:
they came here unarmed and then BOUGHT guns
:)
thanks democrats

I know the Bushes are liking south america and have many neighbors moving in down there with them...
near where Hitler went
I betcha obama has a spot down there somewhere too

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued a stern ultimatum to Russia Tuesday: side with America and its allies on Syria, or stand alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad, Iran and the militant group Hezbollah.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-meeting-with-top-diplomats-at-g7-summit.html

What, IsUS isn't on the other team???
well what do you know.
 
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The story can be figured out by looking at who is going to visit whom. Tillerson gets to speak to Putin's Associate (as powerful as he is) and the answer he will take back to trump is the same one relayed to Trump before the Tillerson's trip ever got off the ground. Ask the Israeli PM if that is the way it works or not.
 

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Memory of the bloody, indecisive first Korean War, 1950-53, which killed close to 3 million people, has faded. Few Americans have any idea how ferocious a conventional second Korean War could be.

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. The North is a small nation of only 24.8 million. Its air and sea forces are obsolete and ineffective. They would be vaporized on the first day of a war. But North Korea’s million-man army has been training and digging in for decades to resist a US invasion. Pyongyang’s 88,000-man Special Forces are poised for suicide attacks on South Korea’s political and military command and control and to cripple key US and South Korean air bases, notably Osan and Kunsan.

North Korea may use chemical weapons such as VX and Sarin to knock out the US/South Korean and Japanese airbases, military depots, ports and communications hubs. Missile attacks would be launched against US bases in Guam and Okinawa.

Short of using nuclear weapons, the US would be faced with mounting a major invasion of mountainous North Korea, something for which it is today unprepared. It took the US six months to assemble a land force in Saudi Arabia just to attack feeble Iraq. Taking on the tough North Korean army and militia in their mountain redoubts will prove a daunting challenge.

US analysts have in the past estimated a US invasion of North Korea would cost some 250,000 American casualties and at least $10 billion, though I believe such a war would cost four times that much today. The Army, Air Force and Marines would have to mobilize reserves to wage a war in Korea.

Already overstretched US forces would have to be withdrawn from Europe and the Mideast. Military conscription might have to be re-introduced.

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We should never have gotten rid of our nukes.

"...between 1963 to 1984, Canada fielded a total of four tactical nuclear weapons systems which deployed several hundred nuclear warheads."

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They weren't our nukes. They were US warheads on our weapons systems under NORAD agreements. Canada has never domestically produced a nuclear weapon.
 

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North Korea's state media published a rare criticism of China on Wednesday, saying Chinese state media commentaries calling for tougher sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear program were undermining relations with Beijing and worsening tensions.

A commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) referred to recent commentaries in China's People's Daily and Global Times newspapers, which it said were "widely known as media speaking for the official stand of the Chinese party and government."

"A string of absurd and reckless remarks are now heard from China every day only to render the present bad situation tenser," it said.

China had better ponder over the grave consequences to be entailed by its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations," the commentary said, referring to North Korea by the acronym for its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

China is North Korea's neighbor and only major ally and the United States has pressed it to use its influence to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. Diplomats say Washington and Beijing are negotiating a possible stronger U.N. Security Council response - such as new sanctions - to North Korea's repeated ballistic missile launches.

The KCNA commentary charged that the Chinese articles had attempted to shift the blame to Pyongyang for "deteriorated relations" between China and North Korea and U.S. deployment of strategic assets to the region.

It also accused China of "hyping up" damage caused by North Korean nuclear tests to China's three northeastern provinces.

Chinese state media calls for North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program were "a wanton violation of the independent and legitimate rights, dignity and supreme interests" of North Korea and constituted "an undisguised threat to an honest-minded neighboring country which has a long history and tradition of friendship," it said.

Earlier on Wednesday, China called on all parties in the Korean standoff to stay calm and "stop irritating each other" a day after North Korea said the United States was pushing the region to the brink of nuclear war.

North Korean media issues rare criticism of China over nuclear warnings | Reuters