[Right Scoop] Ralph Peters made it pretty clear this morning that anyone who thinks that China is actually going to help with the N. Korea problem is delusional. He said they’ve never done it before and given the choice now between American good will and the N. Korean regime, China will ALWAYS choose N. Korea.
Peters points out that China doesn’t see N. Korea as a problem, but rather as a "very valuable ally" during both peace and war. In fact he argues that China likes that the US is focused and distracted by the Korean peninsula, so that they can make mischief elsewhere.
China will never help us and he hopes that Trump is finally coming around to realizing this with this latest tweets on the issue:
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This is a typical Russian-China proxy action. All NORK hardware comes from these bastids or Pakistan. Take it to them. Delay or close down entirely, shipping from China to the Ports of Long Beach and Savannah. Provide Japan and South Korea a nuclear capability. Continue to strengthen ties with Poland and other former Soviet satellite states. Bolster ties with India. Sell Europe more LNG and crude oil, undercutting Russian prices. Increase the Political-Military footprint in key African states. Target for destruction Iranian troops in Syria. Oh, we're already doing that, ok then please continue and add the reactivation of the 'Northern No Fly Zone' to Iraq to non-Iraqi aircraft. Put a U.S. tactical fighter squadron at Al Sahra Airfield (the old Camp Speicher) near Tikrit, Iraqi.
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Delay or close down entirely, shipping from China to the Ports of Long Beach and Savannah.
Can't understand why this wasn't done a long, long time ago unless it has something to do with all the corporations that make big bucks selling cheap plastic crap from China. They'd scream bloody murder but some of those jobs might start finding their way back to America.
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given the choice now between American good will and the N. Korean regime, China will ALWAYS choose N. Korea.
True. But more than American good will was involved in the offer. Stuff like a nuclear-armed Japan, missile defense systems with radars that can peer into China, some trade action, military assistance to countries like Japan and Viet Nam that are worried about Chinese expansion, chaos at the NKor-China border if something jumps off.
The Chinese have gotten a lot of mileage out of their vicious little pet. Trump's negotiation is in one sense a test of how much future value the Chinese place on that.
[RealClearDefense] President Trump should carefully review, and summarily reject, the recommendations laid out in a letter from six self-described "experts with decades of military, political, and technical involvement with North Korean issues."
The experts (some of whom I have worked with or under, directly or indirectly, in government or academia, and greatly respect), are well-regarded in their fields and as well-meaning and patriotic as any of the rest of us.
But their call for the immediate and unconditional opening of talks with North Korea defies the history in which they have been involved. They state something they know to be refuted by experience, their own and others’:
"Talking is not a reward or a concession to Pyongyang and should not be construed as signaling acceptance of a nuclear-armed North Korea."
Yet, that is precisely how it will be seen by Pyongyang and its supporters (Beijing and Moscow), collaborators (Iran, Syria, Pakistan) and other rogue states and parties who defy and undermine the international order (Cuba, Hamas, Hezbollah et al.)
The writers believe it is incumbent on the United States "to show good faith ... and make clear that Washington does not have hostile intentions toward North Korea and wants to explore peaceful paths forward." This after sixty-four years of North Korean aggression, insults, and provocations, American restraint in declining to resort to it its overwhelming military power, and endless appeals for a peaceful resolution accompanied by generous economic rewards to North Korea.
"In return," they write, " Pyongyang could announce a freeze on tests of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. We expect China would support such talks and help to bring them about." (my emphasis).
As the authors know from their own painful dealings with the regime’s negotiators, they have previously announced good things only to cheat and renege at the earliest opportunity. And China is only too happy to go along with the charade.
Nevertheless, the experts argue: "[S]anctions alone will not solve the problem. Pyongyang has shown it can make progress on missile and nuclear technology despite its isolation."
But that is only because serious, biting sanctions have never truly been tried. Beijing, and Moscow to a lesser extent, have consistently opposed, undermined, circumvented, or simply ignored previous sanctions regimes, doing just enough to show the West their own "good faith" but never enough to actually incentivize North Korea to halt its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Indeed, China now openly says it fears North Korean regime collapse more than a nuclear North Korea and that collapse would occur if it imposed substantial economic pain on the regime with tightened sanctions.
In other words, the Kim family dynasty would choose regime suicide rather than give up deliverable nuclear weapons--and China cares more about the regime’s survival than does the regime itself!
Yet, the experts tell us : "Kim Jong Un is not irrational and highly values preserving his regime."
"Instead the primary danger is a miscalculation or mistake that could lead to war". True, and such miscalculation can arise precisely from a perception that the West lacks the will to confront the danger: "there are no good military options." There rarely are, but dangers only increase when allowed to by indecision and self-delusion. As Henry Kissinger said of the Korean War: "We did not expect the invasion, China did not expect our response".
President Trump has made it clear he is not deceived by China’s protestations of innocence and impotence regarding the growing North Korean threat to South Korea, Japan, and the United States.
At some point, Washington policy-makers will come to the full realization that Beijing has all along colluded with and "enabled" North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. They have provided a major diplomatic distraction and resource diversion for the West and a great strategic advantage for China, allowing it to pose as a responsible stakeholder and good-faith negotiating partner.
Successive presidents, including this one up to a point, have made preemptive concessions to Beijing on trade, human rights, Taiwan, the South China Sea because "we need China on North Korea."
President Trump is well-positioned to put an end to that destructive dynamic and has given signs he intends to do just that.
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I'm thinking assasinating Kim is the best way forward. With no obvious heir, any military response would soon peter out, as the factions fight each other.
It is said that instead of all agricultural produce being required by the state, he is allowing up to 40-60 percent to be kept by the farmer.
Kim has set up economic enrichment zones in every region that allows successful enterprises to actually make money for themselves, unlike his father and grandfather.
What he has done militarily is to have removed those loyal to his father and replaced them with younger more innovative military people. Thus the progress with ICBM development.
He is worshiped by his people as a custom and they are conditioned to cheer, applaud and show tears of joy when he enters the presence. His ruthlessness has created extreme fear of him.
Even though Kim is young, he has mastered acting much older than his age when in the company of his top loyalists.
He intends to leverage nuclear military capability as a tool that is to inflict fear in the world and he intends to do so very effectively.
This situation will be a major challenge for the rest of the world to try to deal with.
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Just publicity notify both the Chinese and the Russians, the other players in the region will get their nukes and delivery systems. When everyone screams, just put a deadline that the other parties denuclearize the Norks or game over. If the Norks can play by their own rules, so can we.
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"The letter was co–written by former US Defence Secretary William J Perry, US Senator Richard Lugar, Nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker, Governor Bill Richardson, former Secretary of State George Shultz and diplomat Robert Gallucci."
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"The letter was co–written by former US Defence Secretary William J Perry, US Senator Richard Lugar, Nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker, Governor Bill Richardson, former Secretary of State George Shultz and diplomat Robert Gallucci."
Looks like the same gang of idiots who have been wringing their hands for the last several decades, appeasing the NORKS and their Chicom sponsors and allowing the situation to degenerate as far as it has.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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They inadvertently left off Dennis Rodman
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"Do not under estimate this young Dictator. ...
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WASHINGTON — After weeks of testing and analysis, Lockheed engineers have been unable to determine the reason why some F-35 pilots have experienced hypoxia-like symptoms during flight, though some believe the problem could be that pilots have become far too reliant on oxygen, sources confirmed today.
Earlier this month, officials at Luke Air Force base halted all F-35 flights after five separate incidents were recorded in which pilots were unable to magically convert carbon dioxide into oxygen in order to survive.
“This is something we’re looking into,” said Brig. Gen. Brook Leonard, 56th Fighter Wing commander, “and if necessary, there will be disciplinary proceedings for pilots who cannot perform maneuvers at 30,000 feet without whining that they don’t have enough O2.”
According to senior defense officials, the issue could be related to the F-35’s On-Board Oxygen Generating System, or OBOGS, because there aren’t enough goddamn acronyms in the military and Lockheed decided we needed one more.
Leonard believes it’s most likely pilot error making some pass out and dream of their past experience flying aircraft that flew from point A to point B without killing them.
“We have received some reports from the engineers that some pilots were taking breaths into their masks,” Leonard told reporters. “Additionally, we’re investigating some disturbing reports that some of our fliers were also handling the flight controls while in the air.”
[Right Scoop] Former Congressguy Jason Chaffetz says that the GOP doesn’t even have a real plan to pass their health care bill.
He kinda sums up a lot of frustration that people have with the GOP right now, and highlights why Chaffetz is leaving. He literally says that he’s grown too pessimistic about the ability for anything to get done in politics. Health care is a fantastic example. As much as Trump seems to be completely useless in the effort, it should be a grand slam touchdown for the Republicans if they had actually done any *planning* in all the years that they were whining and pretending to be against Obamacare....
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Really don't have any interest in hearing the Tim Curry look-alike who investigated everything and prosecuted nothing throughout his grand-standing career analyse anything. Even if he's correct, he's still part of the problem. Can we set him and Trey Gowdy adrift on the same raft with no food, mid-Pacific?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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If they do nothing, Obamacare will die anyway.
While dying, it will jack up premiums for tens of millions causing them them to drop coverage and be fined for not having coverage. Which will cause many of formerly GOP voters to fail to vote in 2018 or vote for the Democrats. The GOP needs to either repeal or replace. If it doesn't, it will lose bigly in 2018.
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While dying, it will jack up premiums for tens of millions causing them them to drop coverage and be fined for not having coverage. Which will cause many of formerly GOP voters to fail to vote in 2018 or vote for the Democrats. The GOP needs to either repeal or replace. If it doesn't, it will lose bigly in 2018.
And knowing GOP, we can all predict what it'll do.
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Fokkin' BS. Single Payer is coming. The GOP is already setting the plate for the Turtle Gambit, "We tried and tried and tried, but we just couldn't get the votes". The shit has already been canned and is just waiting for distribution. Too much money and power to be had, don't ya know. I'm sure you'll all understand.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
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RINOs have been lying for 7 years. There is no room for doubt. They never intended to repeal, but were happy to lie about it thinking the day would never come.
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And now turtle neck et al are saying they 'may need Dem support'? If a meteor were to strike Congress while in session, would we care at all? Not I. I pray for such.
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[Right Scoop] Former Congressguy Jason Chaffetz says that the GOP doesn’t even have a real plan to pass their health care bill.
