By SJ
Otto
Before
he was elected Donald Trump said he would focus on America first and stop the obvious imperialism.
Now we see that he is a liar and he has back tracked. Now he is "Mr.
Imperialism" and he is one of the most reckless presidents since George W.
Bush. Since he has been in office he has slammed missile into Syria and bombed a part of Afghanistan .
In Afghanistan he
has pissed off local leaders. For example the former Afghan president Hamid Karzai
said:
"Afghanistan 's
previous president said Monday that President Trump “committed an
immense atrocity” in allowing the U.S.
military to drop one of its most powerful non-nuclear bombs on ISIS tunnels in the country last week.
“My message to President Trump today is that he has committed an
immense atrocity against the Afghan people, against fellow human beings,” Hamid Karzai told The
Associated Press."
But the real medling
that will mess the world up is in North Korea (actually known as Democratic
People's Republic of Korea). Trump claimed he could negotiate a deal with the
North before he won the presidential election, but now he has back tracked and
thinks he can shoot his way out of giving any deals with North Korea.
According to The
Los Angeles Times Mike Pence made statlements to insinuate that:
"The United States of America will always seek peace
but under President Trump, the shield stands guard and the sword stands ready,"
Pence told 2,500 sailors wearing blue fatigues and Navy baseball caps on a
sunny, windy morning aboard the carrier at the U.S. Yokosuka naval base in Tokyo Bay .
"Those who would
challenge our resolve or readiness should know, we will defeat any attack and
meet any use of conventional or nuclear weapons with an overwhelming and
effective American response," Pence said."
Next Trump sent a fleet of ships towards North Korea
only to turn them around and send them south. According to Daily Kos:
"Because nothing comforts people and
soothes international tension like reporting that you’re bringing in a fleet of
warships. However, in this case, there’s an issue other than bringing in some
ships to show the flag.
The problem was, the carrier, the Carl Vinson,
and the four other warships in its strike force were at that very moment
sailing in the opposite direction, to take part in joint exercises with the
Australian Navy in the Indian Ocean, 3,500 miles southwest of the Korean Peninsula ."
So what is Trump really doing? If he is bluffing
it may or may not work. "The
United States
will not be negotiating directly with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un anytime
soon," Vice President Mike Pence told CNN
in an exclusive interview."
So will the real Prez. Trump stand up and tell
us what he plans to do? So far he has rattled sabers and tried to intimidate
the Kim Jong Un (김정은) regime. That leader
is not the same as those people running Syria
or Afghanistan .
Kim Jong Un is very paranoid. He is not battling to save his regime as Bashar al-Assad (بشار الأسد) was. He does have working atomic bombs, even though he
lacks long range missiles. He will probably retaliate if he is attacked. He has
many options. He can try and sink one of the ships in the area for war games.
He can strike a US or South Korean (Republic of Korea ) military base. He can attack Seoul , South Korea . All of this could lead to nuclear war. It is already
known that the US
will win if a war begins. But what will the coast be? How many Koreans will die
if the North actually believes it is fighting for its life. And it seems likely
that North Korea
will fight to its death to try and survive. Despite all the talk of Kim Jong Un being crazy and unpredictable, it
is likely that he and his government fully understand what is at steak.
Is Trump willing to listen to reason and try to
find a diplomatic way out of the Korean conflict or is he just a complete idiot
who doesn't care how many people he kills? We don't know. But we need to let
our government know that this kind of recklessness is not acceptable to the
American people.
Pix
by The Guardian.
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