Everyone should be clear that the US does have a strike-first plan on North Korea, and Trump is just batshit enough to do it.
From everything I've read, North Korea wants to take a shortcut, but still be treated as a legitimate country. They are right bastards, for sure. So was Saddam, but it in no way justified the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq.
Nor should the same rhetoric here mean that anybody with any sense should support the US going into North Korea.
Though I find this mostly the kind of thing that, like a conspiracy theory, makes us feel more in control of an out-of-control world, there has been
speculation that part of this has to do with long term Russian plans coming to fruition. I don't have the source, but I was watching German news yesterday and the German rocketry experts were saying that this newest model from North Korea looked Russian. Take that, of course, with a grain of salt.
But I do that to underline how predictable the American response is. It's not too difficult to manipulate Americans. If there is anything to the Russian accusations (and I'm not saying there is) it is
no different than the British easily getting Bush to go to war with Iraq after
French oil companies were about to get that sweet Iraqi oil without giving BP a cut. Then, of course, the British got a disproportionately large share of oil fields
and cut out, leaving Uncle Sam holding the bag to protect and distribute the oil while being able to wag a finger in shame for US aggression.
And I in no way think the US is anything other than stupid enough to fall for the same thing again, if the Russian connection is accurate.
The United States has been shoveling bullshit into its mouth about having to maintain an aggressive military posture for long enough that it believes it.
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