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What are the odds that Trump preemptively nukes NK? (Original Post)
maryellen99
Dec 2017
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,448 posts)1. Pretty low.
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. Define "pre-emptive"
I would say, his threshold of provocation is very low - say, a missile landing 100 miles from the Aleutian Islands, accompanied by taunts such as "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)4. Trump is desperate for a very big distraction...that would do it
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)5. Putin wouldn't sign off on it
moda253
(615 posts)6. I think Putin is going to do it.
Or start something there at the least.