16 Oct 17
Originally posted by @whodeyOf all the countries from Haiti to Iran which the USA has tried to impoverish through sanctions, how often has the USA achieved its policy goals by this means?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/world/asia/north-korea-hacking-cybersecurity.html
North Korea does not need to have any trade to make money, they just steal it through hacking.
16 Oct 17
Originally posted by @whodeyMy guess is that, since it has no justifiable policy objective and serves no realistic goal, then the determination of the USA to impoverish the people of other countries which fail - like Haiti say - to comply with the USA's own ideological preferences, is immoral and vindictive, as well as being illegal.
None.
My guess is they use it just to slow them down a bit.
Look what happened when the USA lifted its trade embargo against China. It did not liberate a stream of communists to undermine civilisation as we know it. Instead, it radically transformed China itself in ways that the USA surely welcomes and China joined the international trade fellowship and engaged in effective diplomacy instead of empty rhetorical abuse on both sides.
16 Oct 17
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According to this article, NK can use nukes to do an EMP attack, which may devastate 90% of the US population.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/congress-warned-north-korean-emp-attack-would-kill-90-of-all-americans/article/2637349
If so, happy days are here again for people such as yourself who hate the US.
16 Oct 17
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Originally posted by @whodeyIs that like the imminent threat Iraq posed to the western world and civilisation as we knew it at the time of the boozy Bush child?
According to this article, NK can use nukes to do an EMP attack, which may devastate 90% of the US population.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/congress-warned-north-korean-emp-attack-would-kill-90-of-all-americans/article/2637349
If so, happy days are here again for people such as yourself who hate the US.
...Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
16 Oct 17
Originally posted by @finneganAre you disputing their capability?
Is that like the imminent threat Iraq posed to the western world and civilisation as we knew it at the time of the boozy Bush child?
...Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXrmQBPg2s0
I would like to think that NK is not suicidal.