North Korea says considering missile strike near Guam The threat ratchets up tensions after Donald Trump threatened “fire and fury” against Pyongyang. – BBC News
Trump’s already demonstrated his lack of fitness, and a plethora of enabler narratives have emerged ranging from generals standing watch to Congress trying to put war powers safeguards in even as AUMF authorizations remain historically ambiguous.
He now has already had numerous people killed as a result of military actions not unlike his predecessors, but there are high crimes and misdemeanors yet to be discovered as #TrumpRussia continues.
The possibility of war crimes made its appearance recently as a Trump summer break stunt (fire, fury, and frankly power). This raises the interesting prosecution of crimes other than his current obstructions of justice and the possibility of financial crimes among others.
Will Trump be absolved of heinous crimes before/after separation from the office of POTUS. If he’s unhinged, are his capacities diminished.
We don’t have a real sense of Trump addictions unless they’re drugs or sex (he has been described as a “beast” at sex parties, some with underage girls, and the claim has been that he never used drugs at such parties). He claims that he doesn’t drink alcohol.
So will there be a junk-food defense for launching military action with WMDs, considering how much is consumed by Agent Orange.
This recent threat and counter threat by the DPRK against Guam is par for the course with Trump, threatening action and giving the impression he and/or his staff doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Junk food was used as evidence that White was depressed; White’s depression was used to establish grounds for a successful diminished capacity plea; and therefore White was judged incapable of the premeditation required for a murder conviction…
That a jury could rationally have found that White’s actions were not premeditated was incomprehensible and unbelievable to most people, so instead the facts were converted into a story about how a slick lawyer got White off with an absurd “Twinkie defense.”
Dry drunk, wet work. Lord Dampnut. Nixon was not much smarter with Dutch courage.
But in April 1969, mere months into the first Nixon Administration, Nixon’s internationalist savvy was still unproven. That’s when North Korea shot down an EC-121 spy plane over the Sea of Japan. Nixon was furious.
A July 2010 story on NPR featured remarks from Bruce Charles, an Air Force pilot based in Kunsan, South Korea at the time. He recalled being put on alert to carry out his part of the SIOP, the Single Integrated Operational Plan – the U.S. nuclear strike plan for war with the Communists.
Charles was put on alert to drop a 330-kiloton nuke on a North Korean airstrip.
Eventually, the order to stand down was given, and Charles returned to his regular duties. According to the official accounts, Nixon and his advisors mulled over how to respond. In the end, the President opted not to retaliate.
It’s worth speculating that Nixon would have wanted the Communists to believe he actually considered a nuclear strike. In the coming years, the President would even send nuclear-armed bombers toward the Soviet Union while spreading the rumor that he was so insane, he might really trigger World War III.
For those of you not keeping score at home, there are 160,000 people on Guam, which is American territory. This is the response to Trump: https://t.co/9mVp0TI8eq
Donald Trump said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “has been very threatful, beyond a normal statement”. So he responded with language that goes well beyond a normal statement for any US president.
Perhaps Mr Trump believes that no hyperbolic threats should go unmatched or that apocalyptic warnings are the only ones the North Korean leadership will understand. Perhaps he – intentionally or not – is pursuing a Nixonian “madman” style foreign policy, where adversaries will tread lightly to avoid triggering the wrath of an unpredictable US commander-in-chief.
When the leader of the world’s greatest superpower, the only nation ever to have used nuclear weapons on an enemy, talks of unprecedented “fire and fury”, however, those words have consequences.
During his presidential campaign Mr Trump criticised his predecessor Barack Obama for not enforcing a red line against Syria’s use of chemical weapons. Now President Trump has drawn a fiery bright line of his own with North Korea – one that could commit the US to a perilous course of action if his words go unheeded.
Yeah, foundational game theory says: in a face off between two morons, we all die, especially if we’re in Guam. https://t.co/6goL4Qp7Vk
As a country, we should at least be able to agree that the word “improvised” should never be applicable to warnings in a nuclear standoff. https://t.co/l5tvu3vPEH