What's with the bizarrely specific threats from both sides on NK and the US?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Last edited Fri Aug 11, 2017, 03:43 PM - Edit history (1)

North Korea threatens to specifically shoot off four missiles at a specific target, Guam, and meanwhile we talk about how we'd specifically use B-1B bombers if we wanted to do a pre-emptive strike?

Is this what you get when you have two batshit insane leaders face off against each other? Just a lot of bluster and bragging?

It reminds me of this scene from Airplane:

[leftstreet]

1. Oh yeah? I'll see your missiles and raise you a B-1B

That's what it sounds like

And weirder still, Kim said something about "the middle of August" or some such

Nice keeping your big plan secret

[tblue37]

5. Kim said that the military arrangements will be completed by Aug. 15, meaning

that if Trump pushes too far, NK would be able to retaliate by then.

[Still In Wisconsin]

2. What will kill us here in the US will obviously not be North Korean weapons.

We will die (and probably within a month) from the Chinese attack that Trump will force when he attacks NK.

[EX500rider]

7. Pretty sure China has zero desire to get in a nuclear match with a country..

....whose nuclear arsenal dwarfs theirs.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Probably not, but the thing about nuclear weapons is....

250 of them could do a hell of a lot of damage.

Actually, 1 of them could do a hell of a lot of damage, but 250 them would be catastrophic.

The US and Russia have a ridiculous amount of weapons that defy all plausibility in terms of need for that size of an arsenal. It's strictly a matter of show.

[EX500rider]

10. The then question is:

Is China willing to get wiped off the map to help N Korea?
I'd say the answer is no.

[Still In Wisconsin]

11. It will probably go something like this:

(1) TRUMP attacks NK (conventional)

(2) China intervenes on behalf of NK (conventional)

(3) TRUMP attacks China

(4) China responds

(5) TRUMP goes nuclear with China (game over)

[forgotmylogin]

3. When you're in a penis-measuring contest...

...at some point it comes down to blind bidding if there's no reveal.

[Nevernose]

4. Guam is *supposedly* the only US territory they can hit

Although if I were Kim Jung Un, and I actually wanted to nuke the US, I'd put the nukes on one of the many shipping/fishing vessels they maintain and are difficult to keep track of, and just sail into any West Coast harbor...

Sleep tight!

[Lee-Lee]

6. B1-B's haven't been nuclear capable in a long time

And that is widely known, so I wonder if there is some subtle messaging from the military there...

[Tiggeroshii]

8. Two psychopaths on two sides of the world fantasizing about how theyre gonna kill each other

....