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The bitter fruits of empty threats

Now *you* make the analysis 🙂

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Range of a Ballistic Missile

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Scotts. Physics. Boston: Scotts Association, 1992: 590. “Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) has a range of over 6000 miles. ICBMs generally employ rockets with two or more stages” 9650 km
World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: American Association: 681. “An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) may strike a target from about 3,400 to 9,200 miles (5,500 to 15,000 kilometers) away after soaring as high as 700 miles (1,100 kilometers).” 5,500 to 15,000 km
Range Classifications. London: Range Association, 1996. Ballistic Missile Range Categories.
Classifications of Ballistic Missiles by Range
BSRBM Battlefield Short Range up to 150 km up to 94 miles
SRBM Short Range 150-799 km 94-499 miles
MRBM Medium Range 800-2,399 km 500-1499 miles
IRBM Intermediate Range 2,400-5,499 km 1,500-3,437 miles
ICBM Intercontinental Range + 5,500 km + 3,438 miles
SLBM Submarine Launched No Specific Range
150-5500 km
Spencer, John. The Ballistic Missile Threat. Atlanta: 1984: 78. “Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ICBM over 5,500 kilometers. Intermediate-Range Ballistic missile IRBM 3,000 to 5,500¯kilometers.” > 5,500 km
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Federation of American Scientists, 1998: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. “Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) have ranges of greater than 5,500 km.” > 5,500 km

A ballistic missile is a rocket-propelled weapon that briefly fires its engines and then allows the forces of gravity to carry its cargo to its intended target. Such a weapon has a ballistic trajectory over most of its flight path and categorized according to their range, maximum distance measured along the surface of the earth’s geometric surface from the point of launch of a ballistic missile to the point of impact to the intended destination. intercontinental ballistic missiles are missiles that are used on land and in water (usually found on submarines). the range of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is over 5,500 km (3,400 miles). Ballistic missiles have been the preferred weapon because they are long range missiles and are of strategic intimidation for rouge regimes seeking to exert political and strategic leverage far in excess of what they would otherwise be able to bear using their conventional military assets.

Ballistic missiles are seen in many regimes, which do not otherwise possess the ability to project military power much beyond their own borders as weapons capable of creating fear and terror in opponents even if these opponents are economically and militarily stronger. Ballistic missiles have a number of distinct characteristics that make them a particularly attractive weapon for developing nations. Compared to other delivery systems, ballistic missiles are many times faster than a manned aircraft, have much shorter flight time to the target and are thus, more likely to penetrate an enemies defenses. Therefore, ballistic missiles can attack without warning, making them ideal for surprise and pre-emptive strikes.

Alicia White — 2003


  1. It’s an empty threat until it’s not.

    The US and NATO are continually signalling on multiple fronts for the potential for escalation.

    I imagine that collective unilateral action in Syria, Ukraine, North Korea, or South China Sea is very low (unless a world war happens, but that’s not what I am considering at the moment). However to successfully defend yourself you must prepare in each of those separate areas. Positioning troops on the border of N Korea (both China and Russia), building an artificial island to extend your buffer zone in case of aggression in the S China Sea, funding and supporting a capable contingent to prevent domino collapse of Syria then Iran, reinforcing and aiding Ukrainians in the east…

    Thanks to the dollar and exceptional (I can only assume) bribery/black mail capability (this is actually a concept in game theory – basically how to control the actions of independent actors working in their self interest), the US has the real and significant advantage of creating chaos and projecting force on many separate fronts. This process can be used to drain the resources, focus, and resolve of those constantly shuffling defenses to mitigate the unknown and forestall domino-type failure on their periphery.

    Now, with that context, if you’re referring to Trump himself and his tweet above, he’s no more than newest incarnate of faux presidency for public consumption.

    You really think the $trillion+ MIC and intel agencies couldn’t, wouldn’t, shouldn’t jerry-rig in subtle ways an election to satiate all major opposition in this country? You won’t a single verifiable proof? What’s the difference if the outcome, the country we live in and the actions we seem to be making, are the exact same in both situations? No real functioning democracy deserving our support would ever replicate our current situation, in my opinion.

    We see that they are willing to topple weaker nation states for the sake of a theoretical calculation of hegemony… to lay waste to human life out of fear that their dollar ponzi scheme may fall apart – and you have the gall to assume we are the loved exception? Lol

    I don’t know if I even answered your question but it seems to not matter.

    • Thanks, Saker, and everyone else here for your comments. I fear that way too much work and effort and elemental rage has been put into the upcoming Asian War for this thing to ultimately not happen, and that includes having to drive the wagon full of lies OVER THE CLIFF in flames to make it all happen. The powers that be have an “Agenda”, and things are running a “bit” late, and even though you could ask 1,000 well-informed Americans “Do you really feel a legitimate threat from (as just one example: North Korea) and 950 of them responded that they do not feel “threatened”, this bloody war will get flogged and whipped forward. I have seen this again and again from almost 60 years of living in America: once the powers that be determine what the people of America really want, or do not want, they will stubbornly do the exact opposite , and then stick us with the bill for this unwanted thing, and it is a bill that we cannot help but notice has a big problem: the bill can never be repaid. Ever. And the awful thing that was done against our wills and which will forever wreck the future cannot be made to go right, ever. Tiresome, isn’t it? Imagine the world we could have had without these “people”! The problem is that long ago they lost their humanity, and unfortunately, make no mistake about this: they ARE really out to wreck ALL of it.

      • I mean You, the reader, who may be in the U.S. and may not be worried the same psychopathic behavior is in the cards with are supposedly dim-witted president that we have had to endure after every false flag and lying statement. He doesn’t have the reigns in any meaningful capacity. I voted for him out of the blind luck that an idiot could walk in an destroy everything on accident. Never mind his clearly false intentions aimed at the alt right.

  2. Now more than ever is the time for China and Russia to work together to stop a war breaking out in Northeast Asia. The way to do that is to make known to the US that they will not permit the US to attack North Korea. To clearly say that an attack on North Korea will be totally unacceptable for those two major nuclear states.Unless the US realizes plainly that they “must not” attack North Korea. Then we will slowly move towards war. And once that starts there will be no stopping it. North Korea is almost without doubt not going to stand by and just let the US bomb them. They will (I believe) retaliate in a massive way.And the “genie” of war will be out of the bottle.

    • “Now *you* make the analysis”

      -Trump will lunch precision strike on NK, bomb their nuke facilities, NK will fire back, killings tens of thousands of SK civilians, starting a full-scale war between NK and USA, USA will launch an enormous bomb campaign on NK, destroying every visible target bombing them for weeks, maybe months… And.. Then… NK will continue to fire missiles and artillery at Japan, SK and USA bases.. And refuse to surrender.. US will suddenly realize that NK is mad, and wont quit, even if is is bomb to dust, even if 90% of its population starve, NK will not surrender….US will realize that NK is a country that has spent over a half-century preparing for a war with USA, and has been back with weapons and resources by USSR and China.

      That they have endless stockpiles of missiles and ammo and endless tunnels to hide them in… And then months of missiles rain from NK will continue, hitting Tokyo, SK, and US bases, destabilizing the entire region and costing trillions.. US will continue to bomb, but at this point there are not many targets left..Then finally.. A message comes from NK… They demand, that USA and its vassels surrender, the chock in the USA administration is total.. Now they begin to realize, that the only way to defeat NK, is literally to go in with ground troops, defeat the NK conventional forces in every hide out, in every tunnel and then occupy NK for decades, while remaining NK special forces and militas constnatly attack occupying US forces…. The problem is that NK is all mountains, and they have a conventional army of millions, and a militia pretty much as big as their population.. And while NK is low-tech many of the USA high-tech advantages are neutralize in NK territory..While USA understands that the only way to defeat NK is to invade an occupy, they also understand that this is exactly what the NK leadership wants, and the countless civilians that had gotten butchered by US bombs and is eager for a chance at revenge.

  3. Saker, I hope you have more to say about all this. North Korea has been preparing for a war with the US for over 60 years. They’re ready and well dug in. This could get very bloody and end in disaster. The US is so quick to go to war, it’s just nuts. How the hell is the US going pull this off military?

  4. “For the United States, it is a fundamental principle of its foreign policy that it should be able to attack any nation of its choosing, and that no country ought to have the means of defending itself.

    The North Koreans have taken note of the experience of Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya, and arrived at the conclusion that a small nation relying on conventional arms alone has no chance of deterring attack by the United States. North Korea says its nuclear program “is a legitimate and righteous measure for self-defence to protect the sovereignty and the right to existence” of the nation. ”

    Quotes from:

    Yesterday Russia and China issued a joint statement suggesting NK halt it’s nuclear tests in return for the US and South Korea halting their invasion rehearsals, that talks begin based on mutual respect and noting that NK’s fears “are justified.”

    Response from the US ? More threats of attack and utter silence on the issue of talks. Why won’t the US talk? Because if the US was forced to negotiate a “peace treaty” with NK they would no longer have a pretext for the military occupation of South Korea whose puppet government is being manipulated into a crisis the South Korean people do not want.
    See –

    In the situation NK is in why wouldn’t they test their weapons? What is the big deal anyway?

    “It is an article of faith in the West that each missile test by North Korea is a “threat” or “provocation.” But is it true? Over the last several months, India tested its Agni-2 medium-range and Agni-3 intermediate-range ballistic missiles, as well as an Agni-5 ICBM, producing only yawns of indifference. Pakistan fired an Ababeel medium-range ballistic missile, capable of delivering multiple warheads, while China and Russia both tested ICBMs. The United States, as it was roundly condemning North Korea for its tests, launched Minuteman 3 and Trident missiles. None of these tests by nuclear powers were deemed provocative. Nor was note taken of the hypocrisy of the Trump administration in expressing outrage over North Korea doing what it was doing.”


    “As the North Korean foreign ministry observed, “Not a single article or provision in the UN Charter and other international laws stipulates that nuclear test or ballistic rocket launch poses a threat to international peace and security.” The political and economic might of the United States gave it the means to prod other members of the UN Security Council to agree to its demand to impose sanctions on North Korea. As a result, North Korea is the only nation singled out by UN sanctions that forbid it from testing the same types of missiles as other countries are free to do. There is no legal basis for this double standard, which is primarily a product of U.S. influence”.

    DPRK press statement –

    USA crimes never mentioned –



    Finally let’s remember how we got here.


    from :

    Americans may have no knowledge of history , but Chinese, Korean and Russian people do.
    They remember and they learn and they prepare and they are ready ! !

    • The Ghost Formerly Known As Prince on July 06, 2017  ·  at 9:23 pm UTC

      “Why won’t the US talk?”

      Because talking is nothing but a delaying tactic, to buy more time. Talking always pleases silly sheep such as President Obama and his worthless Sec. of State Kerry (who was so bad he actually made Hillary Clinton seem almost competent), but President Trump and Sec. Tillerson know that trick already and aren’t going to play that game.

      So it would appear that the US does, in fact, know history.

      True story: When John Kerry, Obama’s hapless Sec. of State, was running for President against George W. Bush in 2004, he proclaimed the North Korean “nuclear deal” under President Clinton a great success and his preferred model for dealing with Iran.

      !!Even as he admitted that North Korea immediately broke the deal and violated its terms, removing the monitoring cameras and kicking out the inspectors, Kerry nonetheless considered it a proud achievement!!

      And then he did make the same deal with Iran, except worse.

      “Stupid is as stupid does”.

      • The governments of Iran and North Korea have far greater legitimacy among their people than all the US governments since 1776 combined have had among the American people. Therefore they have every right in the world to develop whatever weapon system they deem necessary to protect themselves from the criminal, arrogant, racist and imperialist US governments. North Korea NEVER broke any deal, the US broke EVERY deal, so get your facts straight.

      • If you, mr ‘ghost formerly known as prince’ are replying to ‘zena’ it would appear you didnt actually digest what zena said.
        History has shown us the US hegemon doesnt talk, it shouts, with a gun in hand. Talking would require diplomatic negotiation, something the hegemon is incapable of, it would seem.
        History in mr trump’s vocab would likely be ‘very, very, very old stuff’ – remodeled to fit the newthink of course

  5. Well it clearly represents a significant improvement in North Korea’s deterrent technology. I certainly don’t know enough about these topics to authorititatively judge but I would imagine that such an improvement, to outside eyes, would place on the agenda external assistance. Within that tentative context I would be inclined to place this event on a par with the Russian intervention in Syria albeit at a more restrained geo-political tempo.

    • Very doubtful ,except the assistance all nations get from studying each other. The North Koreans aren’t a tribal society from the Amazon or Congo basins. They have a long tradition of culture and technology. It takes them longer than for countries that have more World contacts to develop nuclear and missile systems.But they can and have done it. Just as Pakistan and India were able to do it. And China in the 1960’s was able to do it. The Soviets refused to aid China’s nuclear weapons program. So they created their own nuclear weapons.The North Koreans have done the same.This article on the Duran is interesting to explain some of the reality of North Korea’s economy:

      • Korea is a very ancient culture.
        One of the most ancient cultures that could be termed a “high” culture.
        Not to put cultures on a hierarchy.
        But there is no reason, on the basis of its educational standards and previous cultural achievements, to assume that North Korea couldn’t figure out how to launch a missile.
        Unless you assume that the USA did manage to bomb it back to the Stone Age.
        I guess that didn’t work.


      • A missile with a range of 8k kilometers strikes me as a step change from previous missiles. I don’t know about guidance systems etc etc but it would seem to me that getting hold of this technology, developing prototypes and so on would take years, maybe decades. The North Koreans seem to be pushing our innovation at a rate only enjoyed by mobile phone companies. The North Koreans do have a history of collaboration with other countries (ie. Pakistan). I am certainly not making any statements about Korea though. I’m more interested in how this would be viewed from the Beltway. These are some mean, nasty mad, not to mention exceptionalist elements in the US and I would be tempted to see this being viewed as the first of a thousand cuts by them. ‘If we let this one go by, what will happen next’?

  6. Let’s assume that N.Korea has one of these ballistic missiles with a credible nuke on top. Let’s also assume that it has had enough of US insults and belligerence and someone lobs it at the USA. These are all large assumptions that have little connection to reality and especially to rational miltary defensive strategy.
    How far does anyone think this missile would get before interception? How many missiles would be needed before there’d be a sporting chance that one would get through? What would happen to N.Korea in the meantime?

    N.Korea might be better off with ‘local’ cruise missiles that are difficult to detect and intercept.

    Far better to lay waste to S.Korea and Japan and better still to just threaten to do so, keeping the status quo.

    The bigger danger is that the USA will ‘bunker bust’ the N.Korean nuclear facilities and release radiation all over the nearby countries.

  7. The Ghost Formerly Known As Prince on July 06, 2017  ·  at 8:48 pm UTC

    It’s slowly dawning on even the dimmest: Mr. Obama and his stupid red line has left the building, and President Trump does not make empty threats.

    Do not, however, assume that the only option on the table is a military strike. There is a whole range of economic “leverage” that can be brought to bear against North Korea, primarily directed at his sponsors and enablers.

    It really comes down to this: Just how much does China love the little fat boy in Pyongyang?

    I’m guessing the answer will be “not that much” if it ends up hurting China’s bottom line.

    China and Russia have already signaled openness to freezing North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, which is really all the United States seeks. In practice that probably means the R&D will shift over to North Korea’s good friends and partners in Iran, but that’s another story for another day.

    • The sad thing watching US TV and MSM, no former diplomat, think-tank “expert” has suggested a diplomatic solution. such as the proposal that US/SK halt military maneuvers at Planting and harvest time in exchange for stopping DPRK tests. All US “experts” propose more sanctions, the threat or actual use of force. If DPRK gives in to US threats where will it stop? The US Beast will just demand more and more . Looking at Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, the DPRK seems to be following a sane policy. Remember that there was an agreement in the 90s when Clinton deliberately broke its terms, because he thought DPRK would collapse shortly. Since the US constantly violates treaties, such as sanctioning Iran inspite of P+5 nuclear deal, why should DPRK or anyone trust a US diplomat?
      Sadly none in MSM bring up this record or say anything reasonable about the situation. It is getting very dangerous when US thinks any country not kowtowing to its demands is a “rogue” state, when the US is the Evil empire.

    • I see you are giving us another pro-US assessment. China may not like the “fat boy” at all. But they “hate” the idea of the US dictating what sovereignty a country can have or not. And they hate even more the idea of US troops on their borders. They fought a 3 year all out war with the US over that US idea years ago. China and Russia certainly don’t “want” a war. But if the US gives them the choice of only war or kneeling ,they will almost certainly choose war.

      As you imply China is all about “trade”. But giving the US the “right” to dictate trade leads directly to the US using that in the future against them. So accepting the limited pain needed to prevent that from ever happening again ,may very well be the only realistic choice available. The bi-lateral trade between the US and China is around 500 billion dollars. Out of a 16 trillion dollar Chinese economy. That would be a sad loss for China. But not an unrecoverable loss.And accepting that loss to prevent the US from dictating to them with threats to their economy may be worth it.

      They can also retaliate on the US economy if need be.Besides the billions of dollars in imports from the US that would be lost to the US. They could sell the over trillion dollars in US debt they own. And de-dollarize their economy. Ending any Chinese trade based on the US dollar.That alone would be an enormous hit to the US economy. So no matter what the US may believe.China is not without strong economic weapons to wield against the US. The fact they haven’t chosen to not use them “yet”,doesn’t mean they don’t have them. Nor that they won’t use them in the future if needed.Hopefully for the US’s sake. They are aware of those facts.

    • I’d like to reply to a couple of mistakes in your comment if I may.

      There are two very important aspects to yesterday’s joint Russia/China statement –

      1) They said North Korea’s fears “are justified”. Whilst this may seem obvious to us, such a statement in the political world at the level of 2 presidents of superpower status carries weight and means that there is no justification for aggression against the DPRK in their opinion and they also point out they are North Korea’s neighbours. Again we know that but the message is “you will not start a war in our neighbourhood”
      Plus the US poking China in the S.China sea is ensuring little love in Beijing for the crazies in Washington.

      2) It is very heartening to see these two leaders issue joint statements on crises like this. I would love to see China and Russia operate even more collaboratively and “jointly” in responding to issues such as US warmongering.

      Deng Xi Ping and Putin have met some 21 times in the last 4 years – on average every ten weeks. We can’t know what they discuss in private but it’s fair to guess that front and centre has to be how to deal with out-of-control rogue state USA, and how to contain it short of nuclear war.
      Thus they are bound to have plans.

      Of course China could dump it’s US treasuries but this would wreck their own export market which is why I think China/Russia are going hell for leather to get the OBOR going – to create new customers for China’s huge productive capacity – whilst also working collaboratively on de-dollarization.

      Regarding your comments – your comment suggests you think China will throw NK to the wolves. I could not disagree more strongly.
      That is a very dangerous assumption and one I hope the generals in the Pentagon, who seem to run US military policy these days – do not make.
      China is alarmed of course – but now Putin is on to it as well, ahuge plus, and there are 2 superpowers opposing war on NK.
      By the way you are also mistaken in two other ways in saying “China and Russia have already signaled openness to freezing North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, which is really all the United States seeks”

      Firstly, North Korea is a sovereign independent country – Russia and China do not order it to do anything.

      The only country that orders everybody about is the USA.

      The joint Russian/ Chinese statement said NK should voluntarily freeze testing. They are trying to help a country that has no international voice and only gets insulted and miscalled and threatened continuously with annihilation

      And secondly you cannot say that all the USA wants is a nuclear freeze, because how then do you explain America’s stated intention to destroy North Korea labelling it part of an “axis of evil” back in 2001 – five years before they even had a nuclear weapon? Explain that.
      No, as with Iraq, they want it defenceless and then they will attack it.

      The joint Russia/China approach could help create an “anti terror, anti hegemony” alliance much needed in so many theatres of US aggression, but in any case these two countries are sending a powerful message to the world’s number one bully – forget it..

      Again, truth illuminates the darkness and banishes negative misconceptions.-

      “Media say,
      the United States may
      or may not
      kill a number of North Koreans
      for this or that
      or no good reason
      but call North Korea
      ‘the volatile and unpredictable regime’
      Now consider what the U.S. media don’t tell you about Korea:


      Wang said the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is mainly between the DPRK and the United States, but China, as a next-door neighbour with a lips-and-teeth relationship with the Peninsula, is indispensable to the resolution of the issue.



      American arrogance will be it’s nemesis but they won’t attack North Korea.

      • President Xi Jinping is the leader of China. Deng Xiaoping was in the 1980’s, retired in ’89.

        (just to keep the record straight.)

        Also, President Xi has traveled to Russia more than any other nation. Five times.
        Clearly, the two leaders are coordinating closely on geopolitical issues.
        What they are building together is SCO and Eurasia. They are moving the center of gravity of the planet to where four great civilizations converge and where the Western civilization is a profound outsider.

  8. East-Germany collapsed and was absorbed by the Western part seemingly lost to USSR/Russia and conquered if you will by the US/the West.
    25 yrs later the German Chancellor is only now reluctantly admitting that Germany can no longer rely on the US and maybe, hopefully this means it will seek closer ties with Russia and Asia.
    South-Vietnam collapsed and was absorbed by the Communist North seemingly lost to the US.
    It took 20yrs to restore relations and today they are conducting naval exercises together aimed at China.

    When China and Japan (and Russia) can find some common ground and no longer fear a unified Korea, the days of the US on the peninsula are numbered.

  9. I have just returned from a few weeks in China. I live with Chinese friends so get the ‘on the ground’ story.

    There are two basic ‘camps’:

    Those who are completely disinterested in political/world affairs and those who are vaguely aware but couldn’t give a rat’s bum …… “we trust our government”

    I asked one of the people who is vaguely interested what they thought of the potential for nuclear war, of the potential for a nuke landing on Beijing ….. the reply was simple, “won’t happen”

    The message I get from the average Chinese I meet is that they support and trust their government.

    and …. yes …. tiresome …. I know there are people with different views and ideas, I am just telling you about the people I meet and mix with (也，是，我会说汉语）

    I suppose the question is, “do the American people support and trust their government?”

    On my return to Australia last week I noticed our media is softening us up for war ….. yikes

    The talk of sanctions by the ‘nice’ people who do not want to hurt anyone if fucking ridiculous. The editorial in today’s Global Times notes that sanctions need to be targeted, not blanket. Blanket sanctions just end up killing or hurting the average person ……. but it is a ‘nice’ idea, just ask the people who lived through the American inspired sanctions in the 1990s.

    Too complicated for me, I am going to huddle down here in Tasmania until it all blows over …… and I use the term ‘blows’ deliberately.

  10. The US is harvesting 30 years of being a rogue state and breaking treaties and international law. Why should the DPRK trust anything the US says? Sadly none of the former diplomats and “experts” on TV think it is strange that the US does not even try to negotiate, but only issues threats and demands. Carrot and stick work better, but US is all stick.

  11. Well, Saker, I’ll be interested in your summary of the US and DPRK capabilities, but I’m not convinced or even impressed by any of the US bluster.These generals keep strutting their peacock walk but every time it comes to showdown in any theater they walk backwards, and crow louder. I can’t believe any military staff in the world has failed to notice this.

    In the end, because of the artillery poised to strike Seoul, the US will back down for “humane reasons” – i.e. not wanting to shed innocent life in South Korea, yet having shown the cowardly North a thing or two. Always provide your enemy a way out when he is trapped, even if he traps himself.

    But the US sure makes it hard to give it a face-saving way out. Someone made a superb comment today in another site: “The more the grandstanding the greater the loss of face.”

    The US is casting away its prestige at a phenomenal rate. Trump almost seems providentially sent to help in this endeavor, in his naivety proclaiming loudly the back-room bluster of those around him. But we see no boots on the ground, no attacks from the fleet, and not even any courage in the air when a Russian escort fighter plane rotates its wings to show its weapons. The propaganda may say “Forward!” but the reality as the world watches and takes note says “Run away!”

    So, how do we square what we see with what the US blusters? Which of the two things has to be unreal? Frankly, it’s almost getting boring, having the US be a fool in every moment of the day. Can this dying empire do nothing right? It’s embarrassing to watch. But not fearful. No one’s going to press the wrong button. No one’s going to go to nuclear war with Russia and China, and no one can figure a way to hurt DPRK which doesn’t produce unacceptable results for the US and the world.

    I look forward to your appraisal of any action the US can take that won’t result in more harm to itself than to DPRK. I’m prepared for this to be a short list 😉

  12. Much depends on Hamburg tomorrow.

    Not a chance that Trump will be allowed to start this war. He’s demanded a plan and all we have so far is bluster from some peripheral military and talking heads.

    The bet is the US can take out all of NK military aimed at Seoul.
    Losing Seoul means the economy of the US and Japan are crippled for several years. Probably, the global economy will plunge into deep recession/depression.

    And there will be a joint China-Russia threat of nuclear use if the US and Australia are set for war against North Korea. There is no way that they will stand idle with a full blown 21st Century war brought to their border, both areas critical technological and energy resource zones.

    First, it will be an unsanctioned war. The UN SC will not approve a war. Double veto by China and Russia.

    Second, it is delusional to think that NK will be struck without launching a blitz on the South, Japan and US bases in Okinawa and Guam.

    Knowing how the US organizes and launches its “wars”, it seems likely, the NKoreans will have plenty of time to strike very hard.

    But Putin may be able to get through to Trump in the one hour meeting that war is not an option.

  13. North Korea is a buffer state, both sides know it. Strategically, the only avenue of ground invasion via South Korea if war with China/Russia starts. There is little doubt that North Korea stands to gain zero profit from upsetting the current balance or status quo … it risks intervention from both sides, neither results will favor North Korea.

    Also, North Korea is in no position of strength to act unilaterally and declare war by firing its nuke at Japan/South Korea, the US, China/Russia or anywhere else. It’s mutually assured destruction at worst, another Iraq at best. Since Asians generally have long memories, the Koreans (as a whole) would be conceding the moral high-ground and be stigmatized for generations. There won’t be any distinction between North or South, all Koreans will carry the same stigma.

    Now, if someone is trying very hard to upset the balance, we all know who that is (let’s a call a spade a spade), all you have to do is keep provoking North Korea. Drop a few sanctions, a little sabotage here and there, run a few assassinations (where applicable), put attack fleets nears its borders on some pretext, falsely frame it for some “evil” deeds …. and the list is endless.

    Bottomline, they cannot touch North Korea until the moral high-ground has been achieved.
    The rest are just noise.

  14. Saker , I found a welcome crack in the “Matrix” in your publishing 🙂 Obviously The Neocons (anglo zionists, MIC) have captured the Sword Dancer . I’m encouraged to find critical thinking is here and available to counter the anglo/zionist propaganda and Puppeting of Trump . He is a locust shell devoid of any values except $ values . Russia and China are capable of 4d chess yet trump is ignorant of the value and movement of the pieces . N K is Chinese Puppetry and there is a time . Not now .

  15. A few pentagon nuts -after this finger showing by fat boy – are saying : we cant stand this! Let´s bomb a and nuke them with tactical nukes next week!.
    A few other capitolium guys agree. ” exceptional nations down bend down like wind flown umbrellas.”
    A dozen others medal ornated chests say: we can t do that, no way to sell off the south koreans!
    What will say the potus?

  16. What if Putin placed S 400-S 300 defenses in North Korea in order to establish a calm over the Peninsula and create a process of dialogue?

    Using a combined force of Chinese and Russian troops for the installation, it would be welcomed by all except the US.

    Just thinking of what surprise Putin may have up his sleeve . . .

  17. North Korea is another convenient propaganda tool of the anglo/zionist MSM – distraction after distraction. No one is going to invade North Korea – certainly not the vassal tools in the South and even less so the US.
    An ICBM for North Korea is symbolic but not very effective – other than as a retaliatory strike option against a US city or base if nukes are used against Pyongyang.
    Far more effective are the medium range missiles that the North possesses – just like Iran and Hezbollah this is the key to their defense. That combined with longer range artillery and ground forces it would make any US action extremely costly.
    North Korea has friends in both Russia and China and both nations would provide military data on the US forces. The Pentagon knows all of this and has no delusions of the whopping they would get.
    Also what is the gain for the US – certainly not victory. The gain for the US is in the bluster and showboating that keeps the public confused and the military contracts rolling. A hot war against North Korea would cause chaos in the political class of imbeciles in the US. Ultimately – like in Syria that is what the anglo/zionists want. However, there are other forces within the US that do not take the doomsday barbecue to heart.

  18. Fat boy confused and outsmarted his enemies, he looks clever.
    Don is about to loose his temper over this outcome.
    The Saker once asked who will put the knife into the empire ?
    Me just wonder who will get beaten up to unload the rage of humiliation.
    Who is the easy target to teach the lesson ?
    Particular valley in Lebanon gets bombed out into the stone age ?
    No easy targets left around for Don to score a quick victory and shine.
    Is this a peak of empire or will Don double down again ?


    how do you restrain a raging elephant in the porcelain store ?

    • One might think that South Korea would do everything in its power to prevent a war from beginning. I suppose the same could be said for the US vassal states in the EU, too . . . but I think there is a significant difference here both politically and militarily. Seoul would be hit with massive artillery barrages. The North could block invasion fleets with its nukes. It would be a bloodbath . . .

  19. Russia and China share land borders with North Korea.
    Any military miscalculation by the US vis-a-vis the DPRK has the potential to impact both of these countries directly, yet arrogance and hubris prevent the US from listening to the counsel of either of them.

    Inexperience mixed with arrogance saw Trump needlessly ratchet up tensions on the peninsula.

    He deployed THAADS, he sent Aircraft Carriers, he staged wargames and during this time he also lobbed cruise missiles at Syria and dropped the MOAB on Afghanistan.

    Yet did he manage to intimidate Kim?

    No, he did not.

    Kim has called his bluff, and now the US runs the risk of losing-face big time.

    North Korea is not Iraq, Libya or Syria. They have the demonstrated ability to project massive violence onto the doorsteps of the US and its allies.

    The US has gotten so used to beating up on countries that cant fight back that when it encounters one that can it doesnt know what to do.

    The little whats left of American prestige now hangs in the balance.
    Trump had better hope that Russia and China can come up with a face-saving solution to all this.

    But Russia and China must also bear in mind that North Korea has legitimate concerns that must be taken into consideration in devising a solution to the crusis.

  20. Imagine if China or Russia were bomb Mexico back into the stone age. The American elites would not be happy about a major war on the southern border. Why then, would China allow the USA to invade North Korea. The MIC is looking for a reason to justify its existence.

    Too many countries are beginning to stop using the dollar in international trade. How would the Anglo-American elites force everyone to keep using the dollar? The USA cannot invade every country. If the USA goes to war against North Korea, China will dump all of its dollars.

    The Anglo-American elites will not allow the American people to think about domestic problems.
    Anti-North Korean rhetoric is a silly way to misdirect the American public. As a bonus, a major war could erase trillions in foreign debt and stimulate the US economy.

  21. I don’t see President Trump delivering on his threats against North Korea. He was not going to do it in January and certainly not now after Tsar Vladimir Putin and Mandarin Xi Jinping have agreed to hold a common postion on the issue. I just hope that tomorrow President Putin could make Trump understand that the clock is ticking and if he wants to have Russia and China to work with him in a number os issues in a constructive way, the time is now; before he becomes a lame duck for the Neocons and be replaced by Pence. Of course, the US can launch a missile attack on NK facilities and the beg to China and Russia to help him get out of a sorry ass mess.

  22. I now have a really horrible feeling that the US will conduct a “surgical strike” on the DPRK.
    The Russia/China factor means the US will try to keep them out of the picture by claiming this is a proportionate response aimed only at destroying NK’s nuclear weapons.
    “Surgical Strike” sounds” almost harmless almost medical and therapeutic and is typical westspeak for mass murder.
    Therefore a few thousand dead maybe and surely not worth Russia/China risking global conflict over they will figure.
    I think this because I read that all the options put before Trump involve military action.

    “National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster insisting that all of the options prepared for Trump involve a military component.”

    There is no such thing as a little bit of war. The DPRK will fight for its survival and of course give them everything they’ve got.

    I hope I am wrong but I also see that only 24 hours after the Russia/China joint proposal for de-escalation, the US has already dismissed it.

    Plus the US has painted itself into a corner, to them it’s either look tough or be humiliated. God – I hope I am drawing the wrong conclusions here.

    Convince me I’ve got it wrong – please.

  23. There are deep political currents in the ICBM vs ABM world, of course. But the irony is that the above will be near-to-useless where it matters: Seoul. And for what is important: Artillery.

    In very round numbers: NK is guessed to have around 10,000 carefully-hidden (back-slopes of hills) artillery pieces within range of Seoul. These are probably 5 rounds per minute guns, so the initial firing-rate is around 50,000 rounds per minute. Estimate that each has an on-site shell magazine of 500 rounds. That is 5,000,000 shells.

    Counterfire artillery is probably useless, considering that NK artillery is on reverse slopes of hills. That leaves aircraft. Say SK and US can put up 350 aircraft on short notice, carrying an average of 6 missiles/bombs per aircraft. That is around 2,000 targets destroyed per group-sortie. (Given that two missiles/bombs are usually dropped on a given target to ensure destruction, that is likely-closer to 1,000 targets destroyed per group-sortie.)

    So, say it takes five minutes to get to the artillery (more likely, it’s twenty minutes average). NK artillery has already lobbed 250,000 rounds into Seoul. Say you take-out 1,500 artillery pieces total with all the sortied aircraft. That leaves 8,500 artillery pieces still firing at 5 rounds/minute.

    Give a generous twenty-minute turnaround time for the average aircraft to get back to the artillery (more likely 40-60 minutes). 8,500 artillery pieces have been firing for twenty minutes at 5 rounds/minute. That’s another 850,000 rounds into Seoul.

    Say you takeout another 1,500 artillery pieces total with all the sortied aircraft. That still leaves 7,000 artillery pieces steadily firing at 5 rounds/minute.

    Given another generous twenty-minute turnaround time for the average aircraft to get back to the artillery, 7,000 artillery pieces have been firing for twenty minutes at 5 rounds/minute. That’s another 700,000 rounds into Seoul.

    Say you takeout 1,500 artillery pieces again with all the sortied aircraft. That leaves 5,500 artillery pieces still firing at 5 rounds/minute.

    Give a generous twenty-minute turnaround time for the average aircraft to get back to the artillery. 5,500 artillery pieces have been firing for twenty minutes at 5 rounds/minute. That’s another 550,000 rounds into Seoul.

    Say you takeout 1,500 artillery pieces total with all the sortied aircraft. That leaves 4,000 artillery pieces still firing at 5 rounds/minute.

    Give a generous twenty-minute turnaround time for the average aircraft to get back to the artillery. 4,000 artillery pieces have been firing for twenty minutes at 5 rounds/minute. That’s another 400,000 rounds into Seoul.

    Somewhere around three group-sorties in, the NK artillery has run out of ammunition. 3,000-4,000 artillery pieces are left. Seoul-area has been hit with 3,000,000-4,000,000 shells. It doesn’t exist. And the NK armies have yet to move out.

    Oh, and 2X US missiles out of Alaska will have countered X NK rockets…

  24. though war is bad but if I am Russia the biggest country in the world and I know that other guys look at me jealously because of my values and wealth and want to grab them if not today then tomorrow then I will like to have that guy get perpetually engaged in other useless stuff like locking horns with North Korea (guy) and once the horns are locked I will make sure that North Korea teaches them a lesson. I am just saving my(Russia) own ass.

  25. Consider yesterday at the UNSC.
    The Russians blocked (without a vote) any possible use of the UN and “sanctions” with military response, similar to the infamous “No Fly” resolution in Libya. The words of the intended US resolution was to authorize an international response, led by the Hegemon.

    China didn’t have to veto it, nor did Russia. The mere challenge to the meme that the missile was an ICBM stopped the proposed resolution. Haley tried to insult the Russian ambassador that “all the experts”, even NK, declared it was an ICBM. But for those of us who saw Soviet rockets lead the human race into Space, we laugh at Haley and the experts. Russians know rockets. And the trajectory and performance data was closest to Russia and its tracking systems.

    Russia, yesterday, was masterful. No vetoes. No proposal. And the only proposed course of action is dialogue, which is what China’s ideas and Russia’s plan is all about. The US quickly killed the idea for the moment. But it will return. The option left is war.

    And the US has no authority for war. It actually has no ally for war. It is dragooning South Korea into its war plan. But President Moon wants none of it. He doesn’t want the THAAD systems on his land. He wants dialogue.

    What may happen shortly is Putin and Xi will find the “honey” needed for Kim to start a process of building a dialogue with the South, through the Russians and Chinese. Trump will have to tone down his bluster. The US military will have to stand down.

    The real facts, like the science of rocket flight, are immutable. There can be no war in Korea without the US losing South Korea. We won’t even go into what else they will lose. But if the might of the US means anything, it clearly means it can only win a naval war on the planet. It is built for that and no other kind of war. In other words, if Japan attacked Pearl Harbor again, they’d lose big time. Beyond naval wars, the US is pathetic. It seeks out small, third world regimes, and wages horror shows of death and chaos upon their citizens and infrastructure. They “kill and break things”, as they like to brag.

    Well, North Korea, Russia and China are a war too large, too land-based, too coordinated for the US, its Pacific allies and NATO allies, and willing patsies, to take on.

    The North Korean Order of Battle is prolific.

    The North Korean strategic goal is to inflict massive destruction on life and property in and near Seoul and across the DMZ. This they can do fairly swiftly. In less than an hour of warfare, South Korea will be traumatized for 25 years. It does not matter what hits North Korea. By hour 2 and 3, Busan and other major centers of industry and population will be destroyed.

    The calculus is that elementary. A MAD doctrine in kinetic weapons. Attack the North and the South dies.

    Fail to seriously cripple them with that massive first strike of the US, and there will be a war that will consume a good proportion of the US troops in the South. Trump will be welcoming back thousands of caskets. And he will have a POW problem that will be immense. North Korea has 100,000 special forces who train to take prisoners back to the North. Hostage situations will appear all over the urban and rural landscape of the Peninsula.

    All the leverage is with Pyongyang.

    Read this history of the Korean War and you will understand why North Korea was never defeated.

    “This Kind of War” is the blueprint of the death of the Hegemon in Asia Pacific.
    Only the Americans don’t know it, nor do the Military ever refer to it.
    If they had, Vietnam would never have happened. And all the rest, too.

    • But, L445, the closet homosexual skinhead national security advisor, with the nose, claims he could have won the Vietnam aggressive war crime (I’ve forgot the turd’s name atm), vapourising NK will be a “piece of cake” in those delusional zionazi minds, especially since they view their american colony as an endless supply of well indoctrinated cattle.

      Grounded analysis on your part.

      • McMaster. Three-star, tank commander in Gulf War I. Killed a bunch of tanks driven by amateurs in Iraq army. Shooting ducks in a barrel. Now considered Ike’s equal in strategy when all he knows is MOAB.

        You are probably correct. They would have fought Vietnam no matter.
        It looked so easy. Little brown people with floppy sandals. Pushovers.

  26. These Korean ballistic missiles are prime target for American anti-missiles. It’s as if they’ve been designed for the task of shooting down the outdated , low in numbers Korean nukes to demonstrate to the world “mighty” American missile defense , which would not stand against a real , in quantity and quality, adversary such as Russia, but would likely intercept the Korean toys. It’s as if Trump is itching for the Koreans to launch some at the US to show off the American anti-missiles in action…the masses will buy it not knowing the full truth about American missile defense being a joke good only for a few old-style ballistic missiles.

  27. Look, we generally know who the big globalists are. These people and their underlings have no specific national allegiances and directly undermine sovereignty and democracy towards their globalist nightmare endgame.
    Why don’t elements of Putin’s Russia, anti-globalists in US and NATO countries and all other officials that like seeing the sun rise and having families and stability and peace on earth rise up and overthrow and jail and drone strike the key globalists? I mean, what more information do we need? We should all realize by now that the globalists world vision involves more slavery, more war, a permanent state of emergency, enforcement of anti-family social programs, etc. Who really wants this? Why would they want this? So a handful of inbred and insane humans can decide how the rest of us live and trade and what we are allowed to worship? Like nobody wants this or really thinks it is a good idea. It is time to simply overthrow them. I hope this plan is in the works. I don’t see what is so difficult about making it happen. They rely on us..not the other way around.

  28. I suspect that the collective attention span of the US public is short enough for Trump to get way with not having to do anything to back up his threat. Even the neoconservatives are not really serious about war with North Korea. After all that would involve a difficult land war against an enemy stronger than anyone the USA has tangled with since the end of the Cold War (one that even the Israeli press warns the USA against engaging in) and, even if the USA prevails after tens of thousands of casualties of its own, it is likely to find itself in a land war with China since, chances are, there will be no deal in place about the post-DPRK Korean peninsula’s strategic orientation between the USA and China.

  29. I think Kim is proving to be a gutsy guy, far more than most people probably thought possible. I also think that China and Russia finally stepped up to the plate and pushed, jointly, for a sensible solution re. NK and SK that addresses real concerns on both sides. This may have been too little too late though, as I think Trump is feeling increasing pressure to do something, to follow up on endless threats, somewhere in the world, probably in North Korea. Such an outcome may be forestalled by the ridiculous concessions Putin will make today at the g-20. Today, I think, the carve-up of Syria will begin in earnest. As for NK, given enough time, I think the US will arrange a coup. Today’s concessions from Putin re. Syria will likely give Trump that time.

    Count on it. Russia will make major concessions today. It will amount to surrender. Then it is only a matter of time for Kim’s head to find it’s way onto a US spear, alongside Assad’s head, thanks to some some or other power hungry North Koreans around Kim.

    The only force that can really stop the Hegemon is Truth and Justice. Putin and Xi COULD have this force on their side, but they are raging pragmatists. Pragmatism is good to a point, but when a guy like Putin plays buddy buddy games with the likes of Netanyahu and the rulers of Indonesia, he obviously sees no value at all in Justice or Truth. As for Xi, a man who can very pleasantly swallow the massive insult he got served by Trump alongside ‘beautiful’ chocolate cake has no clue about or interest in Truth and Justice.

    Trump is a bit of a dark genius. I think he learned from his mafia pals in NYC that nothing greases the wheels for lucrative deals like mad threats.

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