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talkpolitics So, not satisfied with merely sending a carrier to the Indian Ocean, Dorito Benito has decided to treat nuclear weapons deployments to counter a nuclear state perfectly happy to use them on South Korea and Japan as a first option.
I guess Dorito Benito wasn't kidding when he said he wanted to fire the damned things off.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-s-options-north-korea-include-placing-nukes-south-korea-n743571
The great grimdark irony of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy the last few decades since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that they're essentially super-destructive apocalyptic hollow weapons never actually intended to be used and thus in a real sense the ultimate military-industrial complex dream made manifest. Deploying the damned things as a first resort with intent to wage a nuclear war is a drastic upward spiral of aggression from the usual pantomime involving said hollow weaponry.
Again, North Korea's suspended the armistice with South Korea and been in a legal state of war for four years, but this does not justify enabling the use of weaponry that could if fired off depopulate the entire peninsula and probably would, given that Dorito Benito is probably going to go for the really big booms in lieu of everything else. To say nothing of what happens if the PRC has American nuclear weapons right next to its border with intent to be fired off.
Where the probable reactions are 1) shit bricks, 2) bigger nuclear standoff with the PRC able to hit US troops in South Korea just fine even if they can't hit the USA and thus a potential second Great Power nuclear flash point and a third, actually, depending on what if anything happens with the South China Sea situation. So for those keeping score, there's the ongoing South China Sea situation where the PRC is going full Argentina on the Falklands and saying "Because it's near us we own it", Syria and the potential US-Russia nuclear war there, and now a potential US China war on the other end of the PRC's sea borders with the Korean Peninsula.
The great grimdark irony of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy the last few decades since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that they're essentially super-destructive apocalyptic hollow weapons never actually intended to be used and thus in a real sense the ultimate military-industrial complex dream made manifest. Deploying the damned things as a first resort with intent to wage a nuclear war is a drastic upward spiral of aggression from the usual pantomime involving said hollow weaponry.
Again, North Korea's suspended the armistice with South Korea and been in a legal state of war for four years, but this does not justify enabling the use of weaponry that could if fired off depopulate the entire peninsula and probably would, given that Dorito Benito is probably going to go for the really big booms in lieu of everything else. To say nothing of what happens if the PRC has American nuclear weapons right next to its border with intent to be fired off.
Where the probable reactions are 1) shit bricks, 2) bigger nuclear standoff with the PRC able to hit US troops in South Korea just fine even if they can't hit the USA and thus a potential second Great Power nuclear flash point and a third, actually, depending on what if anything happens with the South China Sea situation. So for those keeping score, there's the ongoing South China Sea situation where the PRC is going full Argentina on the Falklands and saying "Because it's near us we own it", Syria and the potential US-Russia nuclear war there, and now a potential US China war on the other end of the PRC's sea borders with the Korean Peninsula.
I guess Dorito Benito wasn't kidding when he said he wanted to fire the damned things off.
