Ooh, what the world needs now is...

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Bannon, obviously.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/steve-bannon-donald-trump-war-south-china-sea-no-doubt

As declarations of intent go this is pretty telling.

As my mad chum would say, in his rhyming way

Is Bannon
A loose cannon?

So, being the resident TP odds-setter and bookie my questions are:

If there is war, how soon will it take to go nuclear?

Will there be much collateral damage to Europe, apart from nuclear winter, the loss of crops, and the disintegration of the world economy?

And how will Bannon and Trump manage to blame it all on illegal immigrants, asylum-seekers and other folk with pigmentation divergent from Mr Bannon's ideals?

Comments

[oportet.livejournal.com]

It won't happen. He said it a year ago, five or six months before he joined Trumps campaign - when he was running Breitbart (which at the time, was opposition media - opposition media tends to exaggerate and obsess over end-of-world policies and scenarios - so it was then, so it is now)

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[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Careful now, you're going to be called rude by the Told-You-So oracle crowd, for having voiced disbelief in imminent war.

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[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Nah, if a war happens the last thing I'm going to be bothering about it scoring points off folk who had a different opinion.

I may however regard their opinions as not being worth very much. Especially as the Told-You-So crowd were comprehensively rubbished in no uncertain terms. If anyone has the right to be sarky, it ain't those who did the rubbishing.

And also, I'm rather counting on good sense from the Chinese, who seem a sensible people. And who know, unless Trump completely undermines the US constitution, that he has a max of eight years.

Chinese long term goals against a short-termist, myopic, and rather anti-expert Anglo-Saxon mentality? I'd back the Chinese being sensible and waiting until the stupidity subsides. Here's hoping.

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[htpcl.livejournal.com]

I didn't say you'd be the one scoring the points, did I?

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[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

No you didn't.

But given the OP is mine, the single response was to it, and your second response was directed at the initial response to my OP, there is a chain of corollaries which link logically. It's a bit like dependent clauses writ large. I can't help thinking like that.

But now you have cleared it up I shall try to avoid making that mistake again.

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[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Whatever.

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[paft.livejournal.com]

Rude for simply saying it can't happen? Nope. Just wrong. And yes. I will point that out.

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[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Same (http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/2178026.html?thread=152379626#t152380138) applies here. Back to your corners because I'm about to lose my patience with this bullshit.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

His words:
"We’re going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years,” he said in March 2016. “There’s no doubt about that. They’re taking their sandbars and making basically stationary aircraft carriers and putting missiles on those. They come here to the United States in front of our face – and you understand how important face is – and say it’s an ancient territorial sea.”

Yes it was a year ago. And yes, he's a fucking insane fascist, so he can contradict himself from month to month and we still won't know if he means it or not.

But there is the stuff he has tried to do so far...

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

The difference is, back then he was charge of a website. Today he's pretty much in charge of a nation.