Madeleine Albright came from a war-torn family: She knew the price of war.

There has been a lot of appeasement on the part of the US in the last decades: Each president first tried to negotiate, and when it failed, they just put some sanctions in place because they did not know what else to do. Sanctions, obviously, do not work.

Meanwhile, the threat keeps growing.

Good post!

The standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program has long been shaped by the view that the United States has no viable military option to destroy it. Any attempt to do so, many say, would provoke a brutal counterattack against South Korea too bloody and damaging to risk.

Even the most limited strike risks staggering casualties, because North Korea could retaliate with the thousands of artillery pieces it has positioned along its border with the South. Though the arsenal is of limited range and could be destroyed in days, the United States defense secretary, Jim Mattis, recently warned that if North Korea used it, it “would be probably the worst kind of fighting in most people’s lifetimes.”

Beyond that, there is no historical precedent for a military attack aimed at destroying a country’s nuclear arsenal.

The stakes are even higher now. American officials believe North Korea has built as many as a dozen nuclear bombs — perhaps many more — and can mount them on missiles capable of hitting much of Japan and South Korea.

After all, a pre-emptive American attack would very likely fail to wipe out North Korea’s arsenal, because some of the North’s facilities are deep in mountain caves or underground and many of its missiles are hidden on mobile launchers.

The problem, Mr. Cordesman said, is that there are many ways and reasons for each side to escalate the fighting once it begins.
Stopping it would be much more difficult.

North and South Korea, separated by the world’s most heavily armed border, have had more than half a century to prepare for a resumption of the war that was suspended in 1953. While the North’s weaponry is less advanced, the South suffers a distinct geographical disadvantage: Nearly half its population lives within 50 miles of the Demilitarized Zone, including the 10 million people in Seoul, its capital. “You have this massive agglomeration of everything that is important in South Korea — government, business and the huge population — and all of it is in this gigantic megalopolis that starts 30 miles from the border and ends 70 miles from the border,”

North Korea has positioned as many as 8,000 artillery cannons and rocket launchers on its side of the Demilitarized Zone, analysts say, an arsenal capable of raining up to 300,000 rounds on the South in the first hour of a counterattack. That means it can inflict tremendous damage without resorting to weapons of mass destruction.
The North has deployed at least three systems, though, that can reach the Seoul metropolitan area: Koksan 170-millimeter guns and 240-millimeter multiple-rocket launchers capable of hitting the northern suburbs and parts of the city, and 300-millimeter multiple-rocket launchers, which may be able to hit targets beyond Seoul. There are perhaps 1,000 such weapons near the Demilitarized Zone, many hidden in caves, tunnels and bunkers.

The Nautilus Institute study projects 60,000 fatalities in the first full day of a surprise artillery attack on military targets around Seoul, the majority in the first three hours. Casualty estimates for an attack on the civilian population are much higher, with some studies projecting more than 300,000 dead in the opening days.

China and Russia have been cornered and can no longer bluff.

S Korea should reverse its policy to a sunshine policy. A lie, of course!

USA should attack without warning.

N Korea would then have no excuse to attack S Korea as America had acted alone.

" it is common knowledge that many illegals voted, machines were hacked by the Democrats and some people double voted"
Take it easy, man, you are propagating fake news

You knew that you were competing in an election where results are decided according to the electoral college system. You were made fully aware of the terms and conditions. At the end of the day, you lost. As for the popular vote, being able to vote without presenting ID isn't exactly reassuring; it is common knowledge that many illegals voted, machines were hacked by the Democrats and some people double voted. Maybe Trump won that too.

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Gay marriage need not be encouraged, but probably legalised as there are certain parts of a person's life that a government just shouldn't interfere with. The responsibility should lie with the gays themselves. If they stay monogamous and contribute to society better as a married couple, then so be it.

Most working people would probably be disappointed about not getting grandchildren but would only want their children to be happy, if they were gay.

As for refugees, the cat is out of the bag. In Europe, the Kalergi plan is being carried out in full swing, the new bastard lovechild mocha master race is coming. Let me make it clear that I have love people of all races but do not wish to see my own getting replaced. I have less hate for the refugees themselves than the governments and left elite that let this happen, for the nicer refugees are merely pawns in a sick and twisted game. Of course, we know that many a rapefugee is not so nice (or as young as they say they are), fick, fick, fick...

But SB, trump was not elected by the majority. He had 3 million votes less than Hillary.
And now he can hardly reach 40% of approval ratings.
He does not represent the country.
He represents a minority only. He should govern accordingly. He does not have the mandate to obliterate everything that the Obama administration has put in place and that the majority of Americans are using and consider good.
And his approval ratings among the countries of the world is dismal. He is a joke: Everybody makes fun of him.
Frankly, he is an embarrassment.

Approval below 40%
Disapproval 55-57%

One example of destruction

You may very well find that the normal rules don't apply when you push white, heterosexual working people into a corner.

We are not crying, John. We want him impeached. He is destroying America from within and from without. This is no normal presidency. The normal rules do not apply.

The River Tay that flows through the city of Perth in Scotland used to be a popular fishing venue for coarse anglers after specimen roach, fish in excess of 2 lbs. Some were caught up to 4 lbs, so I woz informed by a local angler. Perth 'Town Water' was free fishing, though a permit had to be applied for. Shoals of roach there were large.

However, the roach population is thought to have been decimated by ferilizers/estrogens in the river's effluent, and drainage run-off from surrounding agricultural land.

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Vegan

" Follow your leaders, national unity is the ticket" says someone who does not even live in his country.

Like you tell the anti-trump resistance in the US: get used to it!