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With tensions rising in Korea and two unstable leaders facing off, the concern must be that the US is the most belligerent nation on earth, has been involved in more wars than any other country, and frequently the outcome is appalling for the countries America was supposed to be helping.
Since WW2 the US has had wars in Lebanon (twice), Cuba, Congo, Vietnam, Thailand, Zaire, Grenada, Libya (twice), Panama, Iraq (twice), Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and has continuing operations in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Libya is a total mess with internal factions fighting each other, Iraq has been all but destroyed thanks to the incompetence of the US and its allies, Afghanistan barely functions as a state, Somalia is disintegrating......
So, if you were the North Korea leader, you saw what the US and its allies had done to other countries where (arguably illegal) regime change was on the cards, you saw the might of the US army just over your border and you knew as a poor country with a population of 25 million you could not hold back a conventional assault, what would you do?
The North Koreans know that the only way to truly protect themselves is to have weapons that match the US, and show they might use them. Whilst we might not like that fact, unless and until there is a long term solution to Korea, which involves China and Russia, the US in this instance cannot simply go blundering in and ensure the deaths of millions.
It's time to step back from the brink and find a different way but does Trump have the brain to do so?
Since WW2 the US has had wars in Lebanon (twice), Cuba, Congo, Vietnam, Thailand, Zaire, Grenada, Libya (twice), Panama, Iraq (twice), Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and has continuing operations in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Libya is a total mess with internal factions fighting each other, Iraq has been all but destroyed thanks to the incompetence of the US and its allies, Afghanistan barely functions as a state, Somalia is disintegrating......
So, if you were the North Korea leader, you saw what the US and its allies had done to other countries where (arguably illegal) regime change was on the cards, you saw the might of the US army just over your border and you knew as a poor country with a population of 25 million you could not hold back a conventional assault, what would you do?
The North Koreans know that the only way to truly protect themselves is to have weapons that match the US, and show they might use them. Whilst we might not like that fact, unless and until there is a long term solution to Korea, which involves China and Russia, the US in this instance cannot simply go blundering in and ensure the deaths of millions.
It's time to step back from the brink and find a different way but does Trump have the brain to do so?