Hi, Robert Bashe!
I read your message from 01.11.2017 16:47

  ak>> No war will be with North Korea.

  RB> Unless Kim miscalculates. But even he must know what will happen if
  RB> he goes too far. His threats won't mean much then.

  ak>> The US is a cynical liar. It perfectly knows that NK's nuclear
  ak>> program is defensive.

  RB> Yeah, sure. Kim proves that nearly every day with threats to nuke
  RB> Guam or even the USA, plus naturally South Korea. Some "defence".

Both sides exchange with threats. It is like hysteric barking of two 
dogs. It is better to bark loudly that to fight in honest. But a small 
dog always have less reason for fighting. It barks furiously only when 
it fears the big dog.
All the NK's threats have been provoked by US/South Korea's military 
actions and sanctions and they (the latter :) like it. North Korea dies 
of hunger, but such horrible expenses are made not for the sake of 
conquering or destroying the world nations. All that North Korea wants 
is leaving it alone. And it knows well that the nuclear weapon is its 
the only chance to keep enemies at distance. In other case it will 
repeat the destiny of Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan etc.

  ak>> But striking its head against the floor in hysterics the US just
  ak>> uses the NK problem as a pretext for deploying its military forces
  ak>> near China. It is a real target.

  RB> You may not have noticed it, but the USA had had troops stationed
  RB> in South Korea since 1951 or so, and has bases in Japan and
  RB> Okinawa, and good relations with the Philliphines - and of course
  RB> also owns Guam. So China isn't as isolated as you apparently think.
  RB> And if anyone is going into hysterics, I would pick Kim Jung Il as
  RB> the winner, although he's competing with a master at that game in
  RB> the White House.

Human meat (soldiers) is not important much. First of all the US wants 
to put anti-missile system on the Chinese borders and have a constant, 
big navy presence there. There is a good excuse for it in face of NK.

  RB> So little boy threatens big boy.

Read again my explanation about two dogs above.

  RB> Big boy threatens back - but if
  RB> push comes to shove, he can wipe little boy off the map. And since
  RB> little boy knows that, he's careful to avoid crossing the red line.

Now China has enough influence and military power to prohibit any using 
of nukes near its territory. Such actions are impossible without 
informing China and its consent. Usually big dogs fight only with small 
dogs. ;-)

Bye, Robert!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.fidonews 2017

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