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In reply to the discussion: ** Breaking**NK says Trump declared war [View all]Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Small, yes. How many North Koreans are on our border? Who refuses to acknowledge the other country's right to exist? Who is flying stealth bombers -- quite possibly carrying nuclear bombs -- off the coast of the other one? How many countries has North Korea invaded since the war (and even "invasion" is debatable, since it was a civil war)?
North Korea: zero countries or carpet bombed. Not super aggressive, even including the occasional minor border spat that both groups of Koreans manage to stir up.
Since the Korean War, just off the top of my head, for America: Libya, Syria, Iraq, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Yemen, Grenada, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Colombia, Macedonia, Haiti, Panama, Lebanon... And those are just the places where actual US troops went into combat. That's not counting the vast international garrisons or the countless CIA-backed military operations conducted by other people on American behalf. Does North Korea spend a ridiculous amount of their GDP on the military? Yep. About $20 billion a year -- or less than 5% of just our F-35's program budget.
It's the US that are the world's warmongers. Given our record, it would probably but stupider for them NOT to build nuclear missiles.
At the very least, the United States had no business involving ourselves, as we've long since lost any shred of moral authority or credibility.