@Victoria33
If that be the case, should we continue sending stern letters? It is becoming increasingly clear that Trump had a meeting of the minds with Xi, and the surprising move of the Carl Vinson convinced him that Trump was playing hard ball. I put up a thread, for the purpose of getting perspective and bringing into clear focus, how big a mess obama created. Getting it cleaned up is going to be a close run thing, at best.
@don-o It does no good to bring up what Obama did or did not do and/or what Bush did or did not do. The situation is what it is.
You said, "If that be the case, should we continue sending stern letters?"
You said that in regard to my saying just the presence of the "Armada and submarines" off North Korea would/could be why Fat Kid would set off a nuclear bomb.
If Fat Kid did detonate a bomb we would be "responding" in an emergency/less coordinated way, rather than stopping his nukes on our timetable. My opinion is, we need to make a plan, and take out his nuclear capability according to the plan. We should have already done it years ago. We are going to have to do that as no other country is going to do that. In simple parlance, we need to "blow stuff up" so they can never make another nuke.
A case in point: Saddam had a nuclear plant. Without warning, Israel went there and blew it totally up. The deed was done and no country could do anything about it.
We can do the same thing - blow up North Korea's nuclear plants and the nuclear bombs he already has. No country could do anything about it and besides, it would be saving the lives of millions of people across the planet as Fat Kid WILL send those bombs, first to our country, then Israel and any other country Fat Kid doesn't like. He is sitting in the middle of numerous powder kegs, with a match in his hand, about to launch powder kegs when he feels like it.
Russia is not going to blow up the world - Fat Kid will one day when he doesn't like the noodles he just got for lunch. Our existence depends on what he had for lunch or because he got a knot in his boot strings. If we don't blow that place up, millions of Americans are going to die. He has already said, a few days ago, if we provoke him, he will blow us up.
Don't say the actual North Korean technicians who would be responsible for sending the bomb(s) wouldn't do it. Everyone in that whole country does what Fat Kid says, or they die right then. He has done that over and over - remember, "Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior".
I think we have normalcy bias at work with North Korea. Normalcy bias is, "if something has not happened in the past, it probably won't happen". That thinking keeps us thinking, "Oh, it won't happen". Fat Boy WILL kill us if we don't stop him.
I don't think we will bomb those plants/bombs. We are going to wait until it is too late because we fear other countries won't like us if we bomb those plants/bombs because some people will be killed if we do that. Those deaths would be caused by Fat Boy, not us, because he built those bombs and plans to kill us. We bombed Japan, twice, in order to save lives but some Japanese died. Those deaths were caused by Japan because they attacked us and we had to end that war.
