US Military Plans Bombing Strikes On North Korea

[Benton]

(08-11-2017, 11:30 AM)Millhouse Wrote: So what should the U.S. and the world do?

The same approach over the last few decades, with the result being them building more and more nukes with more ICBMs as diplomacy, no matter who does it, will not work? All the while perfecting that technology and constantly making threats on wiping out our country? Not just verbal threats, but showing videos of them doing so. And when they do have a massive stockpile 10 to 20 years from now, it will be too late to do anything about it.

We will just have to cross our fingers and hope that this soulless ultra-militaristic nation with a lifelong sadistic dictator wont use them on us or anyone. And people yapping about Iraq and Afghanistan. Blah blah blah. Those countries and Islamic groups never posed a threat as great as North Korea is right now. They have explicitly stated they want to destroy us with nukes, and they are building the capabilities to do so.

But hey, if they do use them on us someday down the road and we never took action, at least we can hold our heads high while seeing it all end around us and say, 'at least we didn't have any bloodshed in not preventing in our destruction.'

I think a lot of countries trying to develop or that developed nukes in the last couple decades looked at the US stockpile of nukes and said something to that effect. That's an unfortunate side effect of developing any weapon that trumps the other guy's weapon. Guy has a stick? Develop a bow to beat him. He gets a bow? Get a catapult so you can hit him further away.

We got nukes, used nukes and everyone else had to get nukes for defense.

That leaves three options.

1- We fight everyone. You got a nuke? We've got 10, so we're coming to take yours and have 11 (except Russia, who has more.... let's forget about them for a minute). So... China, UK, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, just wrap up your nukes and hand them over. We'll have FedEx there in 24 hours or less.
2- Everyone sits down and agrees no one uses nukes. Ever. Pinky promise with the UN to dismantle all ICBMs and weapons grade cakes, you break it and everyone invades and takes your stuff. That means the US — the only country to ever use a nuke on civilians or troops — and Russia (with that biggest stockpile) have to get rid of everything, too. 
3- We build our defenses. We pull back from world police and keep developing better and better technology to detect and stop nuclear weapons. Shoot a nuke? We're pulling a Mars Attacks and turning it into helium (or whatever the Martian leader did). We can keep our nuclear stockpile, but we don't get too involved with whoever else is building theirs. Why? Because that's the responsibility of the UN and the other 6.8 billion people on the planet. That's not saying that if someone fires a nuke that we wouldn't stop it if possible, but only after diplomacy — not a military invasion — failed.


To me, 1 & 2 are never going to happen. Even when the UN was doing a decent job and the US government wasn't corrupted by personal interests, no one could get the world to play nice.