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Cattledog

(5,910 posts)
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 09:33 PM Apr 2017

1 million casualties...no big deal to tRump.

Gen. Gary Luck, a former commander of American forces in South Korea, estimates that a new Korean war could cause one million casualties and $1 trillion in damage.

Kurt Campbell, a former assistant secretary of state for East Asia and now chairman of the Asia Group in Washington, warns, “I do not believe there is any plausible military action that does not bring with it a possibility of a catastrophic conflict.”

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis knows all this, and he and other grown-ups in the Trump administration would resist any call for a pre-emptive strike. Concern about the North Korean response is what prevented Richard Nixon from a military strike in 1969 when the North shot down a U.S. plane, killing all 31 Americans on board. And it’s what has prevented presidents since from striking North Korea as it has crossed one red line after another, from counterfeiting U.S. hundred-dollar bills to expanding its nuclear program.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/opinion/the-north-korea-trump-nightmare.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur

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1 million casualties...no big deal to tRump. (Original Post) Cattledog Apr 2017 OP
He's nuts enough to do it flamingdem Apr 2017 #1
His heart has atrophied, he has no empathy, Mme. Defarge Apr 2017 #2
Some of us might wanna order some spare parts for that Hyundai, just saying... winstars Apr 2017 #3
tRump Is Like A Bottle Rocket With The Stick Broke Off Grassy Knoll Apr 2017 #4
Someone MFM008 Apr 2017 #5
These statistics are just numbers ProudLib72 Apr 2017 #6

Mme. Defarge

(8,009 posts)
2. His heart has atrophied, he has no empathy,
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 09:47 PM
Apr 2017

his soul is very, very, very sick. This is the definition of a monster.

MFM008

(19,803 posts)
5. Someone
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 02:26 AM
Apr 2017

needs to put an end to his reign of error.
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ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
6. These statistics are just numbers
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 02:30 AM
Apr 2017

on a sticky note that fell off the desk in the Oval Office and got stuck to Kushner's shoe.

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