POTUS UN Speech

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(09-22-2017, 10:27 PM)Dill Wrote: Can we be sure that China, and Russia, won't somehow "rush" to their aid?

What makes the current stand off different from previous is that now there are two unstable leaders and both sides have nukes.

A nuclear strike to NK is a direct threat to both China and Russia. Also, if the US is attacked, that triggers NATO.

We should expect China and Russia to work actively to prevent such a conflict. 

If they think the US won't strike first, they will likely pressure Kim to avoid conflict, perhaps be willing to make sanctions fully effective. If they think the US might strike first, a better option might be to back NK, to warn the US a nuclear strike on NK would not be tolerated.

My point is, we cannot for sure say what China and Russia will do. That is one consequence of "brinksmanship."

China can't afford to losing the US as a trading partner. While China has a semi ideological bound with North Korea, a lot of the reason they still support them is they share a 800 mile border and can't risk a refugee crisis if the Kim regime fell. I'm not sure that outweighs trading with the US