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a strike on North Korea. Review your selective service eligibility.
madokie
(51,076 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,070 posts)that looked like an enemy had done it but it had really been done by your government. A "terror attack" on New York City perpetrated by government agents but made to look like ISIS did it would be a Reichstag Fire. A "Wag the Dog" situation would be starting an actual conflict to take attention away from a domestic problem. Striking North Korea to deflect from the Russia investigation would be wagging the dog. But it would be really, really dangerous.
kairos12
(12,794 posts)CrispyQ
(36,112 posts)of a lot of people who are starting to question the Con. They will be back on board in a flash. It seems to always work. There's a contingent that thinks war makes us look strong.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,053 posts)Which was pretty much beside the point, because really what the Reichstag fire incident was all about was Nazi exploitation of an act of minor vandalism and using it as an excuse for an Nazi power grab and creation of an "enemy".
TEB
(12,677 posts)Yea false flag attack compliments of Kremlin I just hope mueller can move fast with treason or rico charges.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)And having hundreds of thousands die and a crisis on China's doorstep.
The Generals will not let him casually nuke NK.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)its problems not us who started it
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onenote
(42,296 posts)Also, I'm guessing that what you think will happen is that a military strike on North Korea will result in an invasion of South Korea by North Korea and the US will have to send ground forces to South Korea to fight off North Korea.
Even assuming that is true, by the time a draft was reinstated and the first conscripts called, trained, and sent to South Korea, it would be too late.
kairos12
(12,794 posts)the draft. Never mind Russia taking advantage of us being tied up in Korea and advance into the Baltic States. The Korean War would not be over quickly or easily.
pdxflyboy
(671 posts)I believe China will militarily ally with North Korea. Welcome to WW3.
kairos12
(12,794 posts)NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)I'm not sure starting a war with huge death count among our allies will help him.
TEB
(12,677 posts)Think of it this way a conventional ground war we will chew the NKA apart. But after is when the former generals and soldiers still armed from NKA , it will be a holocaust in North Korea modern day war lords former NKA officers , with troops. And our troops will have to deal with it. tragic these fine people Americans Koreans will be killed over a fucking moron inability to comprehend this issue.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Congress won't have to do any of the shit they been saying for 8 yrs now
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,684 posts)are remotely competent enough to pull off anything like a Reichstag fire. Especially since a strike on North Korea wouldn't be at all comparable to the Reichstag fire. I mean, they might decide to attack NK, but it won't be made to look like someone else did it.
cheyanne
(733 posts)more easily suspend civil rights, militarize the police and use Homeland security to round up opponents. I think that Trump will cook up something w/putin in Syria that he can use to consolidate power. Syria is nicely chaotic and it has been hard to tell who is the perpetrator of an attack. North Korea is too dangerous.
Trump knows that unless he can take total control of the country, his high crimes and misdemeanors will come to light and he will be disgraced. He's fighting for his life..