Does he not have a civil war on his hands right now that he himself is at least partially to blame for starting? Has he not asked for the Russian military to come into his country to help him put down the rebels and Islamic State forces? Seems like he's expanded the scope of that conflict.
See, this is where I get confused. Isn't the US funding the fucking rebels? Or they were at the start?
He is campaigning very hard to reverse the non-aggression policy that says they can't attack anyone unless they are attacked first.
That's not an honest representation of the situation at all, and you know it.
For most embarrassing because he basically had to take stress leave from his job as president, and as I mentioned above, for warmongering because he wants to reverse their long-standing non-aggression policy.
He still hasn't DONE anything though.
The US was/is backing anti-government rebels in varying degrees. There are other groups of rebels in the area as well, including the Islamic State and their allies. If you want the really simple version, there's 3 principle groups: Government forces and Assad, anti-government rebels that are aligned with Al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State and their cohorts (like al-Nusra Front). There really isn't any one group that you can point to and say, "They are definitely the good guys here."
Here's my vote... we have MOABs due to go "offline" in the next 6 months right now right?
It's not about what they've accomplished, going by the nominees, it's about their personal views.
Please see my reply, above.
Shit, I would. Assuming that SK still exists after NK blows it to hell, and assuming that the US doesn't have to commit troops and treasure (but we would), you're going to have about a million North Koreans causing a massive refugee problem for the Chinese. It would have serious economic effects, and those effects may involve issues with US debt being purchased by the Chinese and a recession. War is not a means to make us all rich here, and that should ultimately be considered.
I still think in the grand scheme of things this isn't as big an issue as what Russia has done in Georgia, Ukraine, and their scorched Earth policy almost in Chechnya.
Yeah. It's like complaining that an anti-(racial) discrimination law restricts free speech because it makes dropping the n-bomb at work a bad idea.
Meh, the Japanese are allowed to attack if being attacked is imminent. They lack force projection capabilities though, and that's a big deal. Getting your troops off your islands onto a mainland and keeping supply chains going is not an easy thing to do, and that's often not considered.
I was talking more in the “it’s going to go boom we just don’t know if it’ll be in one hour or a day” sort of situation
I interpreted that to mean that he himself was an unstable man, which he seems to be. What little comes out of the DPRK suggests that KJU has some form of mental illness, as he is prone to flying off the handle and assassinating his advisers (more so than his father was). I don't think you can really call a man like that more stable than the POTUS. I'm not saying that you have to like the guy, but he hasn't executed any of his advisers yet.
I guess I just imagined those nuclear tests then, right? Because I would call those acts of aggression. The DPRK has a long history of saber-rattling.
He hasn't pushed us towards a war with Iran. There are very few people talking about armed conflict with Iran. The last operation against the Iranians was the whole Stuxnet thing, and those were actions taken under the Bush and Obama Administrations. Tensions have escalated with the DPRK, but it also seems to be working. What I am hoping is that a hard line and a policy of non-appeasement will bring them to the negotiating table. The world will be a better and safer place if we can all get to the negotiating table AND the North Koreans are willing to dismantle their nuclear program.
The list is very thinly veiled mechanism for voicing your distaste for Trump in order to call him the Worst Leader in the World. Like I said, feel free not to like him. Vote for whoever runs against him in 2020, should you decide to do so. But don't sit there and tell us that you're being objective when you clearly have ulterior motives for writing this.
