US flies two B1B Lancer bombers over Korean Peninsula.

[roamer65]

Source: CNN

US flies two B1B Lancer bombers over Korean Peninsula in response to DPRK ICBM test.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/08/asia/us-bombers-north-korea-icbm-test/index.html

[sandensea]

1. And we've got overgrown babies with diaper rashes running Pyongyang AND Washington.

We're in God's hands here.

[xor]

6. This seems to be a typical response by the US.

I recall back in early 2016 we flew some B-52s in a similar move. So this isn't something new under Trump. The world didn't end last year when it was done. Although, we didn't have that erratic orange idiot in office at that time. It would be nice if the world would just stop for the next few years so Trump doesn't get a chance to turn already bad situations into something worse.

[sandensea]

9. It's not that this is anything new. It's where all this might lead.

When Obama was in office, one was confident that, if push came to shove, cooler heads would prevail.

Not so with Cheeto.

[riversedge]

2. ..South Korean and Japanese warplanes as well as US F-16 fighters joined the US bombers for parts of

Says they only flew over South K. Headline is scary.



....South Korean and Japanese warplanes as well as US F-16 fighters joined the US bombers for parts of Friday's mission, during which the bombers used inert weapons to practice attacks on a South Korea firing range.
The B-1 flight over South Korea follows a familiar pattern. Friday's was at least the sixth since April, all to show US resolve in the face of North Korean missile tests.

[guss]

3. One shot

What happens if they fly over and a Anti air missile is shot?
How will China Respond ?
How will USA will Respond?
Can We Afford another Conflict?

[xor]

7. That would mean that North Korea fired a missile at planes in South Korean air space.

Hard to see any country justifying that move on North Korea's part.

[EX500rider]

4. Headline should read: US bombers practice on allies bombing ranger-situation normal.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Only difference being, this time it wasn't a scheduled exercise

I would like to know what nimrod thought this up

[Kolesar]

5. We ran out of targets pounding N. Korea with B-29s.

The whole country had PTSD and the ruler used that fear to manipulate them into eternal fear of the USA. That was not a good thing.

[Igel]

10. The same can be said of bombing Japan and Germany.

Three similar kinds of bombing campaigns, except that the one in Japan was worse because of the atomic weapons.

What is different between the outcome in the three cases?

That points to what wasn't a good thing.

The Soviet/Russian involvement prior to the war led to Kim being in charge. The support the USSR gave for the North' invasion of the South was certainly a problem. After that, it was just more of the same Soviet-style paranoia and control. N. Korea is one of the few remaining Stalinist countries on Earth. Even juche is a culturally-appropriate version of "socialism in one country."

So many of today's problems are Soviet-produced. From Yugoslavia to the Azeri-Armenian mess. Second generation "Soviet" was Saddam Hussein, a big admirer of Stalin. China. The Ukraine mess, because of Soviet population transfers under Stalin and state-sponsored industrialization. Even Kaliningrad, because of the USSR's demand for territory as compensation for WWII, with the immediate ethnic cleansing by the Soviet Union.