(04-21-2020, 10:55 AM)TJBender Wrote:

(04-21-2020, 10:25 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: It will be an interesting situation if fat boy dies. The level of fear and cult of personality which controls the country might be too much to pass up for an ambitious dictator-to-be in his upper echelon. Then again, there have been enough of the NK diplomatic corp who have experienced the outside world to know what is happening and step in to open up the country. However, China is completely content with the way things are now. Their efforts to maintain the status quo will not be insignificant.

Bingo. NK starts taking potshots at USN ships, the US warns them to back off, China warns the US to back off, Russia backs China...this scenario gets out of hand quickly. What happens when someone pushes the big red button and actually hits a USN or North Korean asset?

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(04-21-2020, 09:53 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: I think he is already dead and the world hasn't found out about it yet.

It would be a quick war, and liberating the people of NK will surely be a milestone of the Trump 2nd term.

Liberating NK would be a footnote to how Trump stupidly started an open war with China and Russia in your scenario.

Explain to me why you think Russia (which just means Vladimir Putin) would back China? Putin is in this to make himself rich beyond belief.

Siding with China would be incredibly stupid and short-sighted of him.

And in that scenario India would back us very strongly... and they are more than a match for China militarily.

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