wouldn’t it be simpler to color in the borders of each country with an appropriate tint?
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Its an interesting question and thanks for considering my thoughts worth reading. Unfortunately since Rosh Hashanah starts in a few hours and I have lots to do before being offline for 3 days, I don’t have time right now to write out all of my understanding on the matter. I’ll try to give you a compact answer.
First off its not a “solution”. Even if Japan had nuclear weapons and platforms to deliver them, the current legal state of affairs here in regards to the Self Defense Forces make the question of “could Japan use such weapons in second strike capacity?” unanswerable. The question of first strike is already known to be “no”. Lots could also be said about the overall population’s complete dislike for the concept of nuclear arms on the whole.
As for does the US trust Japan not to use nuclear weapons against the DPRK (if Japan had such) here we enter some what if territory that I can’t speculate too clearly. Even so, my best guess is that since Japan does most of its trade with China & South Korea, the answer is probably qualified wild guess that Japan would not use such weapons. But let me say clearly this is only speculation with all sorts of disclaimers and doesn’t cover every possible planning scenario.
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I heard Martin Pearson perform this once at the Woodford Folk Festival, but I’ve never been able to find a recording online.
Shame; it’s a catchy song.
George Papapveris’ It takes a soldier
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That time of year already! Happy New Year!
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It helps that they likely can’t even find Korea on a map.
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Russo-American alliance on the way…
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Does anyone know of any good media sources for insight into attitudes and current events of the US military? Not press release stuff; things that give clues as to what the reaction has been within the military to the rise of fascism.
I’ve already got:
…but more would be better.
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Gee, you’d hope that a military lef-tennant and family would know how to dispatch a few disorderly cops.
https://twitter.com/alfonslopeztena/status/911378865192361984
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/911789314169823232
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This seems likely to heat up soon:
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Fuck. North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho just had a rare press conference outside the United Nations in New York
“As you already know, for the last few days, the United Nations sincerely wished that the war of words between the DPRK and the United States did not turn into real actions,” he began, according to his translator.
“However, last weekend Trump claimed that our leadership wouldn’t be around much longer. And hence, at last, he declared a war on our country,” Ri continued.
“…Since the United States declared war on our country we will have every right to make countermeasures including the right to shoot down the United States strategic bombers, even when they’re not yet inside the airspace border of our country. The question of who won’t be around much longer will be answered then,” said Ri.
Here we go. Words matter dumb ass mother f’kr.
War started by a goddamn tweet. Somebody PLEASE tie him up.
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Tie?
There’s a Gordian knot if I ever heard of one.
There was already a state of war between the two countries, there has been for decades. So this (while ill-advised) does not change anything.
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You haven’t got the memo, apparently.
Planes north of 38° latitude.
Diplomacy kicked in the bin.
And you claim nothing changed?
With this view of things, one could claim nothing has changed in the world since Nov.9th, 2016.
And I don’t think you would claim that.
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Of course, everything is always changing. But both the US and North Korea are fully aware that they have diplomatically and militarily been in a state of war for - 67 or so years. I could be mistaken, but I was under the impression that the Korean war never officially ended.
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