Stupid or Wily?

AZDuck

President Trump, in between congratulating Phillipines President Duterte on the extrajudicial killing of thousands, also told President Duterte that 2 U.S. Navy nuclear submarines were in the seas near North Korea. Is this deliberate messaging, in order to let the NKs know that the instruments of their potential demise are available and handy unless they come back into compliance with international nuclear non-proliferation law.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/24/transcript-shows-trump-praising-philippine-leader/

NKs can't find our nuke subs, but the Russkis have better tech and their Pacific fleet's main base is just up the coast from NK, like, about 100 miles. So, would they share?

RaceBannon

*yawn*

AZDuck

I'm not yawning. NK is serious bidness.

RaceBannon

Fear mongering is cool

Just keep working those phones, Fleens, and tell us what to fear and not fear

phineas

What did trump have for breakfast? Surely one of these publications has a story on it somewhere

AZDuck

RaceBannon said:

Fear mongering is cool

Just keep working those phones, Fleens, and tell us what to fear and not fear

I just report what I'm hearing from fearmongers. You need to learn the difference.

But, if we're going to shit our pants at some threat, we might as well shit our pants at the threat that has nukes and a military that doesn't run away when you look at them funny.

Also, too, we are sending all kinds of signals of ramped-up military shit in east Asia.

AZDuck

phineas said:

What did trump have for breakfast? Surely one of these publications has a story on it somewhere

I'm hearing pancakes

TierbsHsotBoobs

RaceBannon said:

Fear mongering is cool

Just keep working those phones, Fleens, and tell us what to fear and not fear

Helped Trump IMO

RaceBannon

I remember when W put NK in the Axis of Evil and the left had a stroke.

AZDuck

RaceBannon said:

I remember when W put NK in the Axis of Evil and the left had a stroke.

moar straw man - it's what's for breakfast, apparently

Swaye

North Korea can't find our subs, and neither can Russia.

AZDuck

Swaye said:

North Korea can't find our subs, and neither can Russia.

I'll take *your* word for it. I read stuff in the defense-industry-porn press, and really don't know the state of play. And strangely, nobody ever tells the Army about naval capabilities.

phineas

Were boasting about having invisible subs on the other side of the world, meanwhile the world is placing their pawns in our neighborhoods, affecting our elections, printing our money hand over fist. And we encourage all of it.

Swaye

AZDuck said:

Swaye said:

North Korea can't find our subs, and neither can Russia.

I'll take *your* word for it. I read stuff in the defense-industry-porn press, and really don't know the state of play. And strangely, nobody ever tells the Army about naval capabilities.

They might catch a fleeting whisper of an attack sub (non Seawolf class), but forget about it wrt Boomers. Not a chance. Russians have never been able to track us.

RaceBannon

phineas said:

Were boasting about having invisible subs on the other side of the world, meanwhile the world is placing their pawns in our neighborhoods, affecting our elections, printing our money hand over fist. And we encourage all of it.

We ROCK

oregonblitzkrieg

Duterte is a worthless piece of murdering garbage and I'm tired of seeing him in the news and everyone acting like getting his business is so crucial, as if the Philippines were China. Fuck the Philippines.

AZDuck

oregonblitzkrieg said:

Duterte is a worthless piece of murdering garbage and I'm tired of seeing him in the news and everyone acting like getting his business is so crucial, as if the Philippines were China. Fuck the Philippines.

Generally agree, but see First Island Chain defense.

UWhuskytskeet

I'm not worried, Trump knows all about nuclear.

"Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."