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So Trump has told North Korea, stop issuing threats, or there will be "fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen." Which is ironic, because it's a threat. And quite clearly, he's saying that the US will nuke NK. (Trump's threat cannot be interpreted any other way).

So, the news today is NK has responded with an explicit threat:

"North Korea responded with vitriol. In a statement, its Korean People's Army threatened to 'turn the U.S. mainland into the theater of a nuclear war...'"

Remember when Trump mocked Obama for failing to act on his "red line"? Trump has zero options here that are "good," but the prospect of the US starting an unprovoked nuclear war (remember, Trump has HIMSELF been threatening NK the whole time) is unthinkable. So Trump's only sane option is to back down.

Now, "Trump" and "sane" don't really go in the same sentence often, without some form of negation betwixt. If Trump escalates (out of embarrassment and despera...See More
Chalky Tillerson and Mattis are having to clean up *another* mess made by POTUS.

Hope they are successful.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/ignore-our-crazy-president-u-s-tells-north-korea.html
Aug 9, 2017


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