President Trump Threatens to "Totally Destroy" North Korea.

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Mandalore76 said:

Soundwave said:

Trump can't do shit. Even Bannon admitted publically, there is no serious military option for North Korea that makes any sense. 

This is Trump doing his stupid transparent "salesman" posturing where you come in "high" and then negotiate down to a price you want, but geopolitics is not the New York real estate market, Kim isn't some real estate developer trying to sell a bulding on Madison Avenue, he doesn't give a shit about any of this posturing. 

The only thing threatening Kim does is it reinforces NK's belief that they must have nuclear weapons as a detterant. 

A dictator who executes his own uncle and then follows it up with the execution of his uncle's entire family doesn't just acquire weapons "to have as a deterant".

Kim is very intelligent and rational (more than Trump). His goal is to secure his regime and does so with nuclear threatening. He will never use a first strike. Why should he? His country would be attacked and he would loose the power. A war would 100% be started by the USA.

If the USA declares war on NK and China tells them, they have already troops stationed there, what will Trump do? Now he has to maje the choice wether to declare war on China or back off.