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In reply to the discussion: I'm going to be in the minority here re NK but... [View all]Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)1) The US can not do anything militarily against NK without China's say so. That is the bottom line. The moment we use military force against NK without China's say so, they will consider it an act of war against them. That means it won't be like any of these middle eastern countries that we can just kick its butt and not worry about it. A military strike against NK without China say say will kick off WWIII.
Just as if China or Russia went stomping into Canada or Mexico, or if we went stomping into the western "block" countries.
2) SO ... You can't start to draw the lines in the sand with NK if you don't know that you can actually back it up. Which means you have to lean on China to get them to the point where, in back channels at the very least, they say you can. THAT is the problem here. These idiots can't think one dimensional much less three dimensional.
3) Before you go talking big on NK you have to square with China, which means an exhaustive round of discussions about it. And, in the likelyhood they don't agree to, THEN, you put them against the wall more publicly. You put them on notice, and make the case to the world that because they won't agree to allow NK to be dealt with, that they own them, that they are responsible for their actions, and they either take care of the problem themselves or you will do it. That has to become the worlds policy about this, and the close that NK moves toward being a true threat to Japan and other pacific countries, and moving toward possibly having ICBM capacities, you make China own it, so that if it does get the point that you have to intercede, they can't clam that it is an attack on their sovereignty.
Any chance 45 and his clown show can pull that off?