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Originally Posted by bronco67
Actually, I think he would confront the issue directly...because he's a dumb ass. That's what we should be worried about.
Trust me. The United States WILL be in a not every well decided or planned military conflict with many American lives lost at some time during Drumpf's presidency. It's an inevitability.
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After his recent comments, I gave this some thought this morning.
Frankly, North Korea is really a paper tiger. They have a large military, but it's poorly armed, poorly trained, and has very little ability to project military strength past it's border. They might be able to launch a missile strike on the US, but I find that highly unlikely - sending a large missile a few hundred miles into the sea is one thing but sending a missile thousands of miles to strike is a city is a vastly different thing. And even then, if we thought they were going to strike the US with a missile launch, we would have days of warning and enough time to take it out before it launched.
North Korea might be able to invade South Korea, but all of the factors of the Korean War in the 1950s has changed. North Korea no longer enjoys the support of China or Russia, and the South Korea of today is much more advanced than the South Korea of the 1950s not to mention full American support including boots already on the ground there.
The North Korean navy isn't a blue water navy, and could not strike out against the United States. It's not like NK could send a missile frigate and sail it to San Diego; It just can't do that. At the same time, the United States can do this to North Korea at will.
It would be very similar to what happened to Iraq when the US attacked them. Iraq had the world's 4th largest army at the time, but they were poorly trained, poorly lead, and had weapons that were in poor repair - not to mention a lack of communications. The power that the larger countries have - US, China, Russia - is staggering. The larger countries can push a button and launch a missile from three thousand miles away and destroy anything they want. The US can launch an airplane from North Dakota and fly it all the way to North Korea and destroy a building or a tank (or a dozen tanks) and fly all the way home without North Korea knowing what hit them.