Endless War category archive

At The Guardian, Paul Mason opines that Trump will indeed go there. A snippet:

Throughout his life, Trump has been obsessed with nukes. In 1984, he claimed that he could single-handedly force Russia to accept a nuclear truce, telling a reporter: “It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles … I think I know most of it anyway.” In 1990, he told Playboy: “I’ve always thought about the issue of nuclear war; it’s a very important element in my thought process,” adding that the assumptions behind the US’s long tradition of non-use were “bullshit”.

Been nice knowin’ ya.

Afterthought:

It’s truly disturbing that we have reached a point of hoping that Kim Jong-Un is the sane one.

Also, I think Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers grossly over-estimate China’s influence over Kim Jong-Un.

Via Job’s Anger.

Via Job’s Anger.

(Misplet wrod fxied.)

Via Job’s Anger.

What Atrios said.

Addendum, Later that Same Morning:

What Noz said.

Shaun Mullen.

A rumor has been floated that Donald Trump is considering outsourcing Afghanistan to Erik Prince and Blackwater (which has since been renamed several times I forget its current alias because it did such a good job the first time).

A snippet:

By the way, don’t you just love how USA Today calls it a “bold” plan instead of an UnAmerican fascist idiot plan?

Lee Camp argues that Donald Trump is following precedent to lie us into lies. (The relevant portion is approximately the first half of the show.)

Warning: Language.

Via Job’s Anger.

Also, too.

Via Juanita Jean.

Via All Things Amazing, an image site (some images NSFW).

Josh Marshall considers the news from Asia (emphasis added):

Word out of South Korea and Northeast Asia generally is that people in the region are seeing all the Trump winning and are getting sick of all the winning. The AP reports that Trump is finding Asian allies cool to a preemptive strike and The Washington Post Tokyo bureau chief last night suggested on Twitter that people in the region are more worried about rash action from President Trump than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which is really quite an achievement if you think about it.

He goes on to consider the logic of a “preemptive” strike against North Korea and concludes that, in this case at least, there is no such thing.

It resolves to a simple point: the logic of a “preemptive strike” is that you can solve or mostly solve the problem at issue by striking hard and first. But that doesn’t seem to be the case here. So a “preemptive strike” really just means starting a war, which we couldn’t necessarily control in scope or duration once we started it.

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