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Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:40:34 PM EDT
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Ever stop to think that maybe Russia and China will be on our side? Fighting on the side of North Korea isn't a good position to be in. If they fight on our side they get a say in who leads North Korea after Kim is deposed.

I'm sure Trump has told both Russia and China that we don't really give a shit what happens in North Korea as long as they don't have WMDs don't regularly attack South Korea. That they can install any puppet they want as long as whoever leads doesn't intentionally starve his own people.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:42:22 PM EDT
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They don't want 25 million starving, brainwashed people with virtually zero skill set flooding across the border.
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Unlike other third-world countries, they aren't starving, but don't get a lot to eat.
They are brainwashed.
They have some skill sets albeit, some may have monotonous factory work experience. They live in a communist country so everyone has to work.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:43:39 PM EDT
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They need ships, subs, 150,000 troops and the rest to stop starving refugees?

If it takes all that to stop UNARMED people, we are going to lose this conflict.
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dozens of ships, fighter jets and submarines adjacent to the Korean Peninsula on Monday - just months after moving 150,000 troops to its border with North Korea. Russia, meanwhile, moved military equipment including helicopters and combat vehicles to its southern frontier with the hermit state earlier this yea
They need ships, subs, 150,000 troops and the rest to stop starving refugees?

If it takes all that to stop UNARMED people, we are going to lose this conflict.
We won't lose.
We may not win it, but no doubt we won't lose.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:43:44 PM EDT
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I feel very sorry for the NK population. Brainwashed from birth about their dear douche(s). Now they're going to fight for something and probably don't know why. And their world will burn.

All because of some fat fucking idiot
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:43:53 PM EDT
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I don't entirely get the "Not wanting a shared border" with a US ally.  What is the risk that China has by having South Korea sharing a land border with them?

Hell, with NK out of the way there wouldn't be a whole lot of reason for USFK to exist as it does today.
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The Chinese people may get wind of the benefits of capitalism with a free state bordering them.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:44:49 PM EDT
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They don't want 25 million starving, brainwashed people with virtually zero skill set flooding across the border.
Then it becomes their problem
dozens of ships, fighter jets and submarines adjacent to the Korean Peninsula on Monday - just months after moving 150,000 troops to its border with North Korea. Russia, meanwhile, moved military equipment including helicopters and combat vehicles to its southern frontier with the hermit state earlier this yea
They need ships, subs, 150,000 troops and the rest to stop starving refugees?

If it takes all that to stop UNARMED people, we are going to lose this conflict.
We won't lose.
We may not win it, but no doubt we won't lose.
So long as we go in, fuck stuff up and leave. That will be a win.

Our problem has been we stayed behind to clean up our mess.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:45:37 PM EDT
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I would bet they enter and occupy as much of NK as they can.  They would not want SK from taking over the entire country of NK.

They would call it a defensive measure and would "help with the humanitarian crisis" but they would be occupiers, nonetheless.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:45:37 PM EDT
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One potential play is a 3-way colition of Russia, China and USA.  Our side supplies naval based support while R & C are the boots on the ground.  Looks good from a starting point but not sure how that would play out to the end game.

If it goes down this way, there's a new global sheriff in town and wo ist thee that picks a fight with the big 3. 
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:46:30 PM EDT
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I agree. It's posturing.  I don't think they're going to actually do anything with those forces. They're just there to send a message. The same way we do exercises in Europe to send a message to the Russians.

The only way there won't be a diplomatic solution to this is if the crazy little NK $h1t decides to pull something. No nation has anything to be gain by a war breaking out there.
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I've read a lot about WW 1. One thing I've learned from studying the conflict is, once militaries get built up and ready, it's hard to stop the momentum. This could change direction real quick.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:47:52 PM EDT
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Yes, no doubt the fighters and submarines are just the thing to stem the flow of refugees.
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You have an unstable leader, a country awash with weapons, and desperate people.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:48:05 PM EDT
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Agree 100%^^^^^
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:48:15 PM EDT
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So long as we go in, fuck stuff up and leave. That will be a win.

Our problem has been we stayed behind to clean up our mess.
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They don't want 25 million starving, brainwashed people with virtually zero skill set flooding across the border.
Then it becomes their problem
dozens of ships, fighter jets and submarines adjacent to the Korean Peninsula on Monday - just months after moving 150,000 troops to its border with North Korea. Russia, meanwhile, moved military equipment including helicopters and combat vehicles to its southern frontier with the hermit state earlier this yea
They need ships, subs, 150,000 troops and the rest to stop starving refugees?

If it takes all that to stop UNARMED people, we are going to lose this conflict.
We won't lose.
We may not win it, but no doubt we won't lose.
So long as we go in, fuck stuff up and leave. That will be a win.

Our problem has been we stayed behind to clean up our mess.
Agree 100% with that.
Dint know we feel we need to stay after the mission is complete.
Place someone friendly in charge, keep a few backup friendlies in the shadows just in case and leave.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:48:43 PM EDT
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That's probably a fantasy. Our relationship with Russia is probably worse than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War, and our relationship with China isn't all that great either. Russia views us as a threat right now, and China views us as an antagonist, if not an enemy. Teaming up with them is probably impossible at the moment. 
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:49:14 PM EDT
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A prudent move is one that both protects their borders and prepares for WW3. They are just doing what any country involved would do. They've been staging logistics for several months. I'm afraid it is too late to turn back now.

Why make a deal that would keep Kim in power, and then just need to have all these countries redeploy their assets in six months when Kim acts up again? No, the only logical path forward is to eliminate him and get it over with. Or at least eliminate his weapons and leave him for the wolves.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:50:55 PM EDT
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That's probably a fantasy. Our relationship with Russia is probably worse than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War, and our relationship with China isn't all that great either. Russia views us as a threat right now, and China views us as an antagonist, if not an enemy. Teaming up with them is probably impossible at the moment. 
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They could easily see a coalition against North Korea as a way to change what you mentioned.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:52:23 PM EDT
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They could easily see a coalition against North Korea as a way to change what you mentioned.
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That's probably a fantasy. Our relationship with Russia is probably worse than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War, and our relationship with China isn't all that great either. Russia views us as a threat right now, and China views us as an antagonist, if not an enemy. Teaming up with them is probably impossible at the moment. 
They could easily see a coalition against North Korea as a way to change what you mentioned.
And they could just as easily see a war in North Korea as a way to hurt the United States and take us down a peg. 
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:54:17 PM EDT
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Man, I almost forgot what it was like to read a dignified and intelligently worded statement from the executive branch.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 1:59:02 PM EDT
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The smart response by russia and china would be this:

Fatkim has stepped across the line.
If nk fires a nuke- china and russia will remove fatkim

Fat kim is running out of allies, support and trade partners. The only sane move is to step down or die.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 2:22:46 PM EDT
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And they could just as easily see a war in North Korea as a way to hurt the United States and take us down a peg. 
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Thats my opinion. Make the monkey dance to draw in the US sit back let it happen and let us hurt ourselves.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 2:25:40 PM EDT
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Yes, no doubt the fighters and submarines are just the thing to stem the flow of refugees.
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I would have imagined a Marine Corps office could read better.

Who Knew?

China and Russia are massing troops on their borders with NK.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 2:26:31 PM EDT
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I raffed hard.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 2:34:06 PM EDT
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That's probably a fantasy. Our relationship with Russia is probably worse than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War, and our relationship with China isn't all that great either. Russia views us as a threat right now, and China views us as an antagonist, if not an enemy. Teaming up with them is probably impossible at the moment. 
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The UN Security Council called and recommended you read the unanimous sanction imposed on the Norks.

Russia and China are on board to end this bullshit from Lil Kim.

Un Sanctions on the Norks
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 2:42:41 PM EDT
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I am suspicious that China sees a war with the United States is inevitable. If not over North Korea, then over the South China Sea and if not over the South China Sea then over Taiwan. Xi and the commies may be coming to the conclusion that they are going to have to fight us sooner or later, and they may be chasing North Korea as the venue. 
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China better be careful if that is what they think. We talk about spreading ourselves too thin, but how thin can China get while facing the US, NATO, Japan, SKorea, Australia, and India.

I mean, China and India are themselves on the brink of war right now, and if China shows they are preoccupied, India is gonna come in and snatch up those 1000s of miles of contested land.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 2:56:48 PM EDT
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Pre-positioning all of those assets under the guise of an exercise is their way of saying that if we attempt to do something preemptive about NK...they will respond.
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Or, if the groundwork has been laid, it's telling Fat Boy he's going to get hit from all sides and has no friends of note anymore.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:01:21 PM EDT
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Its a move to ensure there will be a buffer state between them and us.

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We just need Trump to yell "BOO!" loud enough on Twitter to get the flow started and can win the war without (us) firing a shot.

What the Xi-ese and russkies do to the refugees is not our problem.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:02:35 PM EDT
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China wont risk letting SK and the US take NK and have a shared border. They like the buffer that NK provides between us. If anything China will "take" NK and prop up some puppet leader controlled by Beijing that is far less insane and will allow China access to the trillions in mine-able resources under NK.
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People keep saying this.

Yet the fatman is still norking around up there.

The time for the chins to take out kimmyboy was about last month.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:06:20 PM EDT
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They already got that whiff when the UK returned Hong Kong to them.  For commies, the Chinese are pretty damned capitalist.... and expansionist/colonialist - they're all over Africa mining rare earth elements.  They run the Panama canal, and heavily invested in in the US.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:08:07 PM EDT
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China has ambitions in that region that the arrival of an American task force would inconvenience or upset. They don't want us there, this is their way of telling the Norks that they don't like the attention or the heat.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:09:00 PM EDT
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The Warrior Monk speaks.

MAGA!!!!
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:10:02 PM EDT
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Amid heightened tensions in the region, Beijing staged 'large-scale' military exercises with dozens of ships, fighter jets and submarines adjacent to the Korean Peninsula on Monday - just months after moving 150,000 troops to its border with North Korea. Russia, meanwhile, moved military equipment including helicopters and combat vehicles to its southern frontier with the hermit state earlier this year. Moscow has displayed its own frightening military strength at a war games event in Siberia this week and during a vast Navy Day parade in Vladivostok - about 100 miles from North Korean territory. 
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Trump ratchets up tension with North Korea

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Is this just a prudent move by China and Russia to ensure that any war on the Korean Peninsula doesn't spill over into their borders, or is everyone gearing up for WWIII?
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they both fear a flood of refugees from NoRK.

Especially China.
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Amid heightened tensions in the region, Beijing staged 'large-scale' military exercises with dozens of ships, fighter jets and submarines adjacent to the Korean Peninsula on Monday - just months after moving 150,000 troops to its border with North Korea. Russia, meanwhile, moved military equipment including helicopters and combat vehicles to its southern frontier with the hermit state earlier this year. Moscow has displayed its own frightening military strength at a war games event in Siberia this week and during a vast Navy Day parade in Vladivostok - about 100 miles from North Korean territory. 
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Trump ratchets up tension with North Korea

So here is the question that I have:

Is this just a prudent move by China and Russia to ensure that any war on the Korean Peninsula doesn't spill over into their borders, or is everyone gearing up for WWIII?
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What have you heard?
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:14:45 PM EDT
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I am suspicious that China sees a war with the United States is inevitable. If not over North Korea, then over the South China Sea and if not over the South China Sea then over Taiwan. Xi and the commies may be coming to the conclusion that they are going to have to fight us sooner or later, and they may be chasing North Korea as the venue. 
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Right now, they cant. If they end their business relationship with Bentonville Arkansas, et al, their entire economy comes to a crashing halt.

Best case scenario for them if they beat the US in a war is a worldwide economic desert and they go back to selling jade trinkets to passing ships. Worst case, they get the glow bug.


China (and Russia for that matter) dont want to rule the world. Thats beyond them right now. They want to control their corner of it. For Russia, that's the "near abroad" and select client states in the ME. For China, that's the Asia-Pacific Rim and, to some extent now, Africa.
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Amid heightened tensions in the region, Beijing staged 'large-scale' military exercises with dozens of ships, fighter jets and submarines adjacent to the Korean Peninsula on Monday - just months after moving 150,000 troops to its border with North Korea. Russia, meanwhile, moved military equipment including helicopters and combat vehicles to its southern frontier with the hermit state earlier this year. Moscow has displayed its own frightening military strength at a war games event in Siberia this week and during a vast Navy Day parade in Vladivostok - about 100 miles from North Korean territory. 
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Trump ratchets up tension with North Korea

So here is the question that I have:

Is this just a prudent move by China and Russia to ensure that any war on the Korean Peninsula doesn't spill over into their borders, or is everyone gearing up for WWIII?
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So, why would a conventional war between the US/South Korea against North Korea/China/Russia be considered a World War? Unless you're inferring that all the other major countries of the world would unite behind us, which didn't happen during the initial start of this continuing Korean war, back in 1950? China backed North Korea back in the 50's, so why wouldn't they do the same thing now? It wasn't considered a world war back in 1950. In any event there is no indication that Russia wants to get involved with this. But, I don't blame them for beefing up their military strength in the areas that might be impacted by hostilities. Who wouldn't? Things tend to bleed over across borders when the shooting starts.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:18:00 PM EDT
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This.  More brains than most of Europe.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:19:44 PM EDT
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Also, China will not allow US ground troops further North without "something" keeping them from gaining any bases near their border. They WILL enter the conflcit if we push on the ground.
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So instead  of a North Korea,  we are going to have NW and NE Koreas? Which one would be Best Korea?
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That will have to be settled by ping pong match.
Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:32:14 PM EDT
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Yes, no doubt the fighters and submarines are just the thing to stem the flow of refugees.
I think we're on our way to WW3
I think we may be also.

Even if we aren't, when tensions rise and  military forces get positioned like they are, one misstep can start something that nobody wanted, purely by mistake.
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I would have imagined a Marine Corps office could read better.

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China and Russia are massing troops on their borders with NK.
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Yes, no doubt the fighters and submarines are just the thing to stem the flow of refugees.
I would have imagined a Marine Corps office could read better.

Who Knew?

China and Russia are massing troops on their borders with NK.
Read the context before commenting: "'large-scale' military exercises with dozens of ships, fighter jets and submarines..."

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They don't want 25 million starving, brainwashed people with virtually zero skill set flooding across the border.
Then it becomes their problem
Jets and subs would indicate that this is NOT just about border control and refugees.
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Link Posted: 8/9/2017 3:46:43 PM EDT
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Read the context before commenting: "'large-scale' military exercises with dozens of ships, fighter jets and submarines..."

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Jets and subs would indicate that this is NOT just about border control and refugees.
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I must really get under your skin.  That's the second time you've quoted me on that.


Here's a theoretical for you:

A foreign military masses just off one of our coasts, or just outside one of our borders.
You'd suggest we just sit back and watch?

Sounds to me like China and Russia are doing the exact same thing we would if the situation were reversed.
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I don't entirely get the "Not wanting a shared border" with a US ally.  What is the risk that China has by having South Korea sharing a land border with them?

Hell, with NK out of the way there wouldn't be a whole lot of reason for USFK to exist as it does today.
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China wont risk letting SK and the US take NK and have a shared border. They like the buffer that NK provides between us. If anything China will "take" NK and prop up some puppet leader controlled by Beijing that is far less insane and will allow China access to the trillions in mine-able resources under NK.
I don't entirely get the "Not wanting a shared border" with a US ally.  What is the risk that China has by having South Korea sharing a land border with them?

Hell, with NK out of the way there wouldn't be a whole lot of reason for USFK to exist as it does today.
It's psychological, historically, there have been several invasions of China that came up through the Korean peninsula.
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It's psychological, historically, there have been several invasions of China that came up through the Korean peninsula.
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China wont risk letting SK and the US take NK and have a shared border. They like the buffer that NK provides between us. If anything China will "take" NK and prop up some puppet leader controlled by Beijing that is far less insane and will allow China access to the trillions in mine-able resources under NK.
I don't entirely get the "Not wanting a shared border" with a US ally.  What is the risk that China has by having South Korea sharing a land border with them?

Hell, with NK out of the way there wouldn't be a whole lot of reason for USFK to exist as it does today.
It's psychological, historically, there have been several invasions of China that came up through the Korean peninsula.
Except in 1950, China was perfectly happy with the destruction of NK so long as it didn't involve the US. China would've never invaded Korea if UN troops hadn't crossed the 38th. If only SK troops had gone north (for whatever they were worth), they had no issue and tried to communicate that message via Pakistan. Of course, then NK was a Soviet puppet state and the Chinese and Soviets didn't like each other, but there were times where they wouldn't have minded a shared SK/China border.

So long as we weren't north of the 38th.
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Jets and subs would indicate that this is NOT just about border control and refugees.
I must really get under your skin.  That's the second time you've quoted me on that.
Not in the least (who are you, again?)

I responded to your post and someone commented on my response without the context.  Not everything is about you.



Here's a theoretical for you:

A foreign military masses just off one of our coasts, or just outside one of our borders.
You'd suggest we just sit back and watch?
I've suggested no such thing.


Sounds to me like China and Russia are doing the exact same thing we would if the situation were reversed.
The fact is, we have been "massed" in this same manner, at their coasts and borders for decades.   Russia and China aren't concerned that we are going to invade Russia and/or China.

They aren't there because they are worried about us invading THEM, nor are they there because they fear a refugee crisis (although some of the troops on their border ARE there for that -not the subs and the jets).

If things happen, I'd bet that China will go into NK.
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... when push comes to shove, the Chinese and Russians will side with the USA - they simply have too much to lose over North Korea (I think)
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China wont risk letting SK and the US take NK and have a shared border. They like the buffer that NK provides between us. If anything China will "take" NK and prop up some puppet leader controlled by Beijing that is far less insane and will allow China access to the trillions in mine-able resources under NK.
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My money is on this scenario as well. Or rather, a China backed coup.
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I cannot understand why China doesn't handle this.

  • They come out looking like heroes
  • They can test their new shiny military on a pathetic opponent (virtually assuring victory)
  • They don't want another of our allies on their border
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