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- Gucci0
great.... that's all we need now.
- ismith0
- So ronery... I am so ronery...ismith
- Get Obama to send a few "diplomats"... a.k.a. the finest escorts we have to offer.ismith
- AMERICA FUCK YEAH!!!!
Ambushstudio - come to save the mother fuking day yeah~!!!pango
- Hans Brix? Oh, herro. ah evray butt fuckin time, hans brix!threadpost
- your bweakin my baws Mr Brixrupedixon
- Pupsipu0
iraq was a preemptive invasion and it didn't start WWIII yet. Bombing of a few targets is even more pussyfootish than that, no way it would start WWIII. Even if NK sold its nukes and Japan got nuked and USA got nuked it wouldn't cause a super response, it would be boring like Iraq is.
- What the fuck..........whamarychain
- NK is a little shithole like Iraq, that got boring, same thing again would be even more boring.Pupsipu
- pussy footing ahahahha love itGeorgesII
- usa and japan getting nuked boring you say... fuck, I gotta go to your parties.sofakingbanned
- robotron3k0
since China provides 80% of NKs food and now own a majority of US dollars, this could be a quick way to make some fast Yuans on the stock market and finish crushing the US dollar ever more so. Right now it's worth about 80 cents, down close to 8 cents from just a few weeks ago... the real question is, will Japan strike first? and will NK retaliate by dropping "the bomb" on SK?
- ha... +1 - open your eyes, kids.PonyBoy
- China doesnt own the majority of US dollars, but pegging the yuan is f'ed up. and they do own way too much in T-bills.threadpost
- I reco this book, really enlightening and scary, China Inc.: http://www.amazon.co…threadpost
- OSFA0
- GeorgesII0
This is an interresting article from airforce time outlining the not so secret tactical plans of china. They know they have no chance of winning a full frontal war so they want to act fast.
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http://www.airforcetimes.com/new…
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"in a script written by Chinese military officers and defense analysts, a bruised U.S. military, beholden to a sheepish American public, puts up a small fight before slinking off to avoid full-on war.""China’s experts concede its army would lose a head-on fight, with one senior colonel comparing such a scenario to “throwing an egg against a rock.”"
"Because the American public is “abnormally sensitive” about military casualties, according to an article in China’s Liberation Army Daily, killing U.S. airmen or other personnel would spark a “domestic anti-war cry” on the home front and possibly force early withdrawal of U.S. forces."
- Pupsipu0
Did China make a new plan since that one didn't work for someone else?
- flashbender0
I hardly think this will result in anything. Everyone else in the world - even their traditional allies are against this
- Horp0
Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo. The sole act that precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia. This caused countries allied with Austria-Hungary, and countries allied with Serbia, to declare war on each other, thus starting World War I. The concluding event of World War 1 was the treaty of Versailles, which was later rejected by the National Socialist Worker's Party of Germany, so World War 2 was merely the second half of World War 1, after everyone had rested and rebuilt their military might along more contemporary lines.
One aristocratic Austrian getting assassinated in his hen-feather hat was all it took to plunge the world into desperate all out war for 30 years, and you think North Korea rattling nuclear warheads is not enough to get chapter 3 started?
pfffft.
- flashbender0
There were already some heavy tensions in that area preceeding WWI - that was used largely as justification for something that was already planned.
My point is, N. Korea has been isolationist for the past 60 years - basically since its inception as a country. They gain nothing by this and the world as a whole objects to what they are doing.
Who are they capable of launching a nuclear attack against?
N. Korea - the US blasts the fuck out of them, Russia and China tell the US not to respond with nukes. They don't.
Russia - China and Russia blast the fuck out of them.
China - Russia and China blast the fuck out of them.
I will grant that there may be some diplomatic posturing once Kim Jong Il is killed about who should control N Korea and what is done with it, but the US is hardly in a position to engage in yet another armed conflict at this stage.
I'll also add the Bush is in Texas right now saying "I fucking told you so" to the world.
- indeed NK geopolitics cannot be compared to that of early 20th century Europe.Corvo2
- Yet you are forgetting that Japan and China have banged each other head's before.Corvo2
- Japan - China is a valid point, yes. I didn't factor Japan into the equation.flashbender
- Horp0
Its easy to doubt the severity of the situation by merely viewing it from a traditional US / Russia point of view "The US will do this, the US wont do that, Russia will this and that" but its a plughole effect that sucks global conflict into a regional tension as it escalates, after the fire has been started. Considering the US response to this situation at this point now is overlooking the regional tensions that are being exposed in the Asia Pacific.
- and utterly - this is the key to unlock the meaning of crop circles.Corvo2
- flashbender0
Time will tell.
I still don't see a scenario where things will be escalated to such a degree over N. Korea. Kim Jung Il has no plans for expansion, he is basically sending a message to the world - especially the US - that they can fuck off. Talk of sanctions against N Korea are simply ludicrous because the country has basically been self imposing them forever.
So the question is who gains what from the obliteration of N Korea? and that is where the east vs. west argument comes in and I can see your point of maybe things getting a bit hairy ... like afghanistan in the 80s, where the mentality is a land grab by the east - either Russia or China and a "we must stop the red menace from spreading on the map / we must protect our allies from the spread of communism" mentality from the West. But both the US and Russia have learned some hard lessons about this in the fairly recent past e.g. afghanistan and Vietnam.
So maybe it becomes something new like yet another conflict between China and Japan. But my view of it is there is simply not enough at stake in N Korea itself to draw the big players into conflict.
Or maybe Australia is a military powerhouse and they are itching to let loose on someone. Who knows.
- caput580
In my view WWIII has already started. 911 was the "official" beginning. America is leading a global coalition against a global, and so called "threat". Do we need more than that in order to classify "War on Terrorism" as a global, world war? I think not.
- Horp0
I wonder what font will be used for the official WW3 branding. I'm thinking something like a vaguely futuristic styled stencil letter, but with some humanist end strokes to connect it back to the most important aspect of any good war... the ordinary people who make it all so interesting.
- WWW 3.0?caput58
- Yes. Shiny ground style. Love it.Horp
- IMPACT!flashbender
- SHATTER!Horp
- Lots of Black and yellow Chevrons.Horp
- Nairn0
Who gets advertising rights?
"This cruise missile attack and its LIVE footage is brought to you by EADMultiLimb - your friends in Prosthetylchanics and human post-shock augmentation"
- I think that's really a question for Endemol to ponder.Horp
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- caput580
I can picture Ryan Seacrest being the host...
- TheBlueOne0
I am getting a really good chuckle from this thread.