pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Two ways to look at it, both bad.
A state is given license to do as it wishes under threat of a nuclear response.
A state is confronted and potentially thwarted under threat of a nuclear response.
What is said for public consumption and what's really said behind closed doors are two different things and I just don't think we're in a position to really know anything other than not to take whatever is in the current news cycle at face value.
That said, this is scary ****. While this has been going on North Korea's been firing off missiles over Japan and we've sent the USS Ronald Reagan back to the area and have been conducting joint exercises with the Japanese and South Koreans. A test of a South Korean missile went embarrassingly badly for which a public apology was issued for 'causing worry'
A state is given license to do as it wishes under threat of a nuclear response.
A state is confronted and potentially thwarted under threat of a nuclear response.
What is said for public consumption and what's really said behind closed doors are two different things and I just don't think we're in a position to really know anything other than not to take whatever is in the current news cycle at face value.
That said, this is scary ****. While this has been going on North Korea's been firing off missiles over Japan and we've sent the USS Ronald Reagan back to the area and have been conducting joint exercises with the Japanese and South Koreans. A test of a South Korean missile went embarrassingly badly for which a public apology was issued for 'causing worry'