Continuing the centerpiece of his foreign policy agenda, talking up a nuclear war with North Korea, President Trump today reacted to reports from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, who warned he has a nuclear button and would use it if threatened by the US.
Trump declared that his own nuclear button is “a much bigger & more powerful one than his,” and adding that unlike Kim’s, his button “works.” This suggests the president believes the size of a nation’s nuclear arsenal is necessarily proportionate to the size of their button.
Trump’s suggestion that his button “works,” is the latest in a series of comments from US officials doubting North Korea’s nuclear capability. Defense Secretary James Mattis similarly insisted that North Korea’s arsenal was unproven.
These comments both suggest the US isn’t taking North Korea’s deterrent capabilities seriously, and that there is a serious risk that the Trump Administration will gamble on North Korea’s ability to retaliate with nuclear strikes on American cities in starting a huge war.
How exactly does Trump KNOW that his “button” will work?
He doesn’t launch the bombers and missiles.
Real human beings [unless we’ve set up a Strangelove-esque DOOMSDAY Machine] are the ones who will push the real buttons that will launch the real bombs and rockets.
And it will be real human beings who Don’t push those buttons.
American naval officers would not refuse an order to launch a Trident D5 on the DPRK.
You’re absolutely, positively sure about that, eh? Is that based on Your experience as an American naval officer? Or something else?
well, to be fair.. they might if Trump is impeached, which is looking more possible.
Not sure i follow You. They might what, if Trump is impeached: refuse to launch, or they might not refuse to launch? So, what would they do if Pence becomes President?
Russian soldiers refused to shoot their own people So the Soviet Union disappeared with little or no blood shed . In Yugoslavia English troop refused to shoot Russian soldiers When NATO ordered them to do so .Russian submarines refused to fire their nuclear missiles during the Cuban blockade when ordered to do so .. Instead they suffered hours of debth charges and finally surfaced and surrendered . So anything can happen but don’t count on it always turning out good .
Trump is right the U.S. nuclear button is bigger . But N Korea’s nuclear button maybe big enough If a H bomb is a100 or a1000 times stronger than the bombs we dropped on Japan . I don’t believe I have ever met a Japanese I have not apologized for dropping those bombs . So I suppose we started the nuclear fight .
The petulant child strikes again. I had to do a double take when I first read this elsewhere. Using manhood size references when talking about the possible devastation of the planet. Brilliant. How in the f**k can a single person still back this moron?
How disgusting. We got rid of the Bush-Clinton crime cartel and replaced them with a embarrassing juvenile blowhard who seems to want to be Mussolini. Come on Donald, a little dignity please.
Your history leaves out the Obama Regime in Your cataloging of recent SwampLandia Chiefs of State. Was that an intentional oversight?
I don’t think Obama was in the club. Hillary hates him. He was more of a hired actor who could read a teleprompter and hide behind racism when criticized. He was such a fraud, he knew he could be taken down anytime. I was so excited that Trump might be something different. But “my nukes are bigger than your nukes” just is just amateurish and pathetic coming from someone who said the mideast wars were a stupid waste and promised to get out of NATO.
A hired actor who could read a teleprompter and hide behind being Nancy when criticized? Oh. sorry…. i didn’t realize we were talking about him… .
Sorry You’re so disappointed in what The D has delivered, but remember: a Nation and a People get the government and leaders that It deserves, And with The Donald, You and Your Folk have got Yours.
Hope You enjoy it if You survive it.
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