We should just elect @Strollen President, his friends and family being in every high position in the government and all.
Assuming we have line of sight and reaction time, which means ships offshore probably, and close offshore? That is, it might be possible with good intel and everything going perfectly in the case of a NK launch. I’m not betting the farm on that. Well, I don’t have to; the poor bastards in Guam or whatever do.
I mean an Aegis could if it was close enough, but you’d be firing missiles over another nation, which would be an act of war, especially when it crashes back onto the ground and kills someone (even if it didn’t NK would say it did).
I mean if an actual war starts, which apparently it’s going to because Trump wants to distract from Russia and PR, their capabilities will hopefully be fairly easy to shut down. Between airstrikes on launchers/launch sites and missile defense, not much is too likely to get to it’s target. Then again, it only really takes one to create the greatest disaster the world has ever seen (assuming it’s nuclear armed).
I would expect there’s a tiny slice of years in which we can shoot down North Korean missiles, after which they either build vastly cheaper countermeasures, or just make more missiles. So it’s probably the only state which it might be possible to shoot them down but it won’t last long.
They might be able to make more missiles, but making enough warheads would likely be an issue for them.
Then again, 100 missiles where 3-4 have nukes is a fairly effective countermeasure in it’s own way since you don’t know which ones are the primary targets.
38 North (which is part of John Hopkins school of International Studies) estimates North Korea can create one additional nuclear warhead per month.
Goodness knows I don’t have an answer on what to do, but if our plan is to not do anything and maintain the status quo, in 5 years they’ll have 80 warheads (if you inlclude their currently estimated 20). In 10 years they’ll have 140, and will be well on their way to reaching Chinese levels (Chinese nukes estimated in the mid 200’s). At that point any measures which can deter North Korea will also be reaching the point where they also might deter China.
Between him and triggercut every person of influence will surely be covered.
Well, we already “deter” China, the same way we “deter” other nuclear powers. We all agree we can mess each other up, but that the bar for doing so is astronomically high. Therefore, we talk about stuff rather than threaten to lob missiles at each other.
A better question is whether, over time, North Korea can get to a point where it’s feasible for us to have the same sort of deterrence/detente relationship as we have with Russia or China. So far, Pyongyang has not demonstrated much liking for behaving in that way, though. That’s what makes this thing so dangerous. The mere presence of nukes is much less important than the relationships we have with the owners.
The problem DPRK has is that it has nothing to offer the world.
China realized they could get rich and elevate everyone if they started playing ball. It took them a while, but they did it.
DPRK is built on keeping people so poor and hungry they can rebel and telling them from birth that Americans want to literally rape their babies and kill them to a man. There isn’t any opening for normalization. The entire nation is built on the myth of America the Monster, it’s the glue that holds everything together.
Yup, even a .1% increase in nuclear war/per year dwarfs everything else the guy does. Now how that translates into making a Trump a 'domestic enemy" is a bit of stretch for most people, but not for me.
And the worst part, to me (pure speculation on my part, mind you), is that I bet he only made that Tillerson tweet because Tillerson was in the headline, and not Trump. He can’t stand to see anyone else getting attention. For that, he directly harms our national (in fact, global) security.
I take comfort in noticing both are obviously close shaved. Evolution paid off.
Trump undercutting Tillerson is still giving me anxiety. It’s hard to imagine any peaceful end to this situation after the President publicly declared he doesn’t give a shit about whatever his diplomats are negotiating. How you can possibly end this without conflict with that setup?
Facial hair (and long hair on woman) are evolutionarily speaking signs of virility. (I googled it some time ago and that’s the answer I found.)
The military ignores trump? Can’t see that happening though so yeah.
One expert puts that chance of a conventional war at 50% and nuclear at 10%. “Donald the dove” (thanks Maureen Dowd) indeed.
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The North Koreans will understand not to take the tweeting seriously. He’s just throwing around the same kind of crazy threats and insults that they do all the time. The only differences are that the North Koreans actually are good at negotiating behind the scenes and they’re a lot better at insulting Hillary Clinton.
Trump said he’s be SO tough to ANYONE who trades in ANY way with North Korea.
Well:
And while they’re over there laying fiber-optic cable, they’re probably building a network for their military too.