North Korea Backs Down

[A Theist]

Just as I thought they would.  Kim backs down.



http://thehill.com/policy/defense/346566...eat-report

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Let's see, their ultimate goal is regime survival.  Their method is nuclear deterrent.   They can't give a rat's ass about Guam. Guam is just a convenient way for them to letting the world know they can hit the US.

Our ultimate goal is probably regime change,  our method is throught preventing them from getting an effective nuclear deterrent.  We've had Guam for 120 years.

So  where does their backing down get us?

They keep their nuclear deterrent.  No regime change in sight.  They promise not to attack what they don't give a rat's ass about.  We manage to get them to affirm they will not attack, for now, what they don't care about and we've already had anyway for 120 years, thus confirming for the world what Kim wants the world to know, that Kim can attack the US, and only agreed, as if his agreement is a valuable thing, to abstain from doing so.

Yeah, we won.  A few more victories like this and they might even promise not to nuke the Washington monument.

There was always almost nothing we could have done to prevent them from consolidating and expanding their nuclear deterrent.   But the tantrum we threw is absolute own goal, because it made our powerlessness, and out futile frustration at out powerlessness, the headline news everywhere in the world.

Just as people say, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people suspect you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt, so it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think your are powerless, than to throw a ineffectual tantrum and remove all doubt.

The fuckhead Kim backed down. Barack opened his big ass mouth and threatened Assad with a " Red Line" if he used chemical weapons. Assad saw Barack for the coward he was and used chemical weapons anyway. There's a beautiful never used Red Line you can buy for very cheap, because it never worked.