While most of the Trump Administration continues to downplay even attempts at diplomacy with North Korea as destined to fail, Defense Secretary James Mattis talked up the idea of diplomacy in his own comments today, warning that imposing a “military solution” on North Korea would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale.”
That appears to run contrary to what most officials have been saying in recent months, talking up the ability of US forces to quickly overwhelm North Korea and downplaying their substantial retaliatory capabilities. Mattis appears to be acknowledging something most of the administration desperately wants to avoid.
That’s that even without a deliverable nuclear weapon, North Korea’s massive arsenal of artillery, on top of substantial conventional missiles, is capable of delivering a calamitous amount of damage to South Korea, including US military forces there, and wiping out large chunks of the capital city of Seoul.
This reality is one many, particularly the administration figures without military backgrounds, appear willing to ignore, as they continue to present North Korea as something that needs to be “solved,” by hook or by crook. Since they’re loathe to even enter discussions with North Korea, slowly but surely they are heading toward attacking North Korea outright.
Lets just say that reducing little things like Samsung to a smoking pile of rubble would be an excellent way to send the global economy into a tailspin. Not that they care about incinerating thousands of people at a time. That much we KNOW is bullcrap. It has to be some kind of “interest” at work, and it’s usually money or stuff. Not much different than a common gangster, just bigger. One locks down a block, the other…entire countries.
You seem to have pretty well summed up what you think of governments . It is sad but I don’t think you a very far off either .
The US government
Mattis: take it off the table!
Another reason is that there’s new leadership in South Korea, that wants diplomacy with North Korea.
I wish Mattis was more specific about the tragedy he foresees. I strongly suspect what it is, and the many loudmouths in DC really need to hear that from someone like Mattis.
Well at least someone who is talking sense.
Middle-class slavery — Middle-class stupidity
It’s really simple, so simple that educated
and intelligent people think it’s fiction.
For the middle-class, they are the middle 25% that own 25% of the wealth and so love to keep it that way. For they never vote to reduce the 75% of wealth owned by the rich ruling-class. For they refuse to vote to give healthcare to the impoverished laboring-class lower-half of society.
And as the middle-class strive to keep the laboring-class enslaved by poverty, they cook their own goose, because when my laboring-class refuses to vote for our next set of dictators, this causes the 26% most wealthy to be the voting majority and win all elections. Which is why we are now bombing seven (7) innocent countries.