09-20-2017, 09:33 PM
(09-20-2017, 06:32 PM)Dill Wrote: I don't think anyone is really worried that Kim would reach for the button because of a single speech. But it could very well lead him to the next stage of escalation, though. And our response to his response might bring us to a hot war.
What bothers people the most about Trump's rhetoric is the poor judgment it shows, an inability to understand how he sounds to both friend and foe, and what that means for his foreign policy "vision."
It also means that people in-house with better judgment still can't really contain him.
I personally feel that a hot war will come about only when North Korea has established itself as a nuclear power and only because of that. I believe it is a huge mistake to think that what North Korea is doing is part of a defensive effort. Trump isnt escalating anything in my mind because North Korea already knows what they want to do, they just can't do it yet because their nuclear arsenal is lacking as a deterence to "US Imperialism".
