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BY ERICK SAN JUAN
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IN THESE exciting times we are on the edge of our seats waiting a possible nuclear world war. Or it’s just some saber-rattling orchestrated by the super elites controlling the alliance of military industrial complexes and using real-life puppets.
Why? Because there will be no nuclear launch or missile launch or other military attack.
Why? Because to do so would be sheer lunacy. Nobody in his right mind who wants to win a war will telegraph his punches. There should be an element of surprise, the so-called “first strike” vis-a-vis a “mutually assured destruction.”
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un who’s living a good life and has his own “Ibiza of North Korea”, unless he has a death wish, will absolutely not initiate military violence. While it may engage in back-and-forth hyperbolic rhetoric, it will not provide the excuse for a reprisal that will devastate his country and destroy his government.
Kim Jong-un and his political counsel know that to start a war would be lunatic and suicidal. As Vox notes: “North Korea is more rational than you think: The assumption that the country is run by a lunatic is not only incorrect — it’s dangerous.”
The rational political figures on the US side are aware of this as well.
Donald Trump sounds lunatic but he can’t be considered suicidal in the conventional meaning of the word, as he’ll not be in the line of fire. However, to start a nuclear conflagration that leads to massive deaths of not only North Koreans but South Koreans, Japanese and American military personnel in the region would be hara-kiri for Trump’s business interests. The devastation and fall-out among allies would render the Trump brand radioactive.
So no, there will not be a military response from either side. The American side could not emerge from initiating such an asymmetric attack with any pretense of international prestige or high standing intact.
The record is clear: no nuclear power has ever dared attack another nuclear power. There have been all kinds of braggadocio but never a military confrontation. Consider the current situation in the Doklam Plateau where there has been a standoff for 50-plus days between two populous nuclear powers, India and China. Neither side has yet resorted to violence.
North Korea has never attacked the US. It is only the US, when it intervened in the Korean civil war, which engaged in battle against North Korea. So what moral authority has the North Korea to threaten the US? After all, when discussing military threats it is the US holding hostile military maneuvers in Korean waters (not North Korea holding military maneuvers in US waters).
The US’ lack of diplomacy — all stick and little or no carrot — has demonstrated to be a failure in achieving denuclearization. (Source: Kim Petersen @Global Research, Aug. 14, 2017)
I have written some articles on denuclearization and methinks this is not possible as long as countries with nuclear warheads will not even disclose the number of such warheads they keep in their nuclear arsenals. Only time will tell when one superpower will push the button, start a world war and end humanity.
When cooler heads prevail, there is a solution to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula sans the intervention of the “super elites” through the current leadership of Washington.
According to Stephen Lendman (Challenging America’s Military Madness, Global Research, Aug. 13, 2017), “It’s time for China, Russia, South Korea, Japan and other world community nations to challenge America’s imperial recklessness.”
The risk of a possible nuclear war is too great to stay silent. Failure to act could let the unthinkable happen. South Korea is especially threatened.
War on the peninsula risks unthinkable carnage on both sides of the DMZ (demilitarized zone). Following his May election, President Moon Jae-in urged outreach to resolve longstanding differences with Pyongyang. He suggested meeting Kim Jong-un face-to-face.
Instead, he has become hostage to the super elites’ imperial agenda, supporting illegal sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea), suggesting they be strengthened.
At the same time, he called for a “complete and thorough overhaul” of Seoul’s already formidable military. He’s more amenable to provocative US THAAD missile systems on South Korean territory, menacing the region.
Over 70 years since World War II ended, South Korea and Japan remain occupied by US forces, provoking North Korea, China and Russia, affording America’s allies the illusion of protection.
Cooler heads among strategic leaders could still neutralize the war threats and preempt the hostile rhetoric which could risk a possible nuclear war on the peninsula, is the best way to stop it.
Big powers are thuggish bully, taking full advantage of the world community’s failure to confront them responsibly – smashing weaker countries like tenpins.
All possible scenarios to stop this stupidity of a nuclear war should be considered for humanity to prevail unless we will see the last of the mushroom cloud in the horizon.
Let us be vigilant. (culdesac0002@yahoo.com.ph)/PN
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