Trump MAGAThread XI: Button, Button, Who's Got The Button?

[Internationalist Bastard]

Well I assume we'd have them overthrown by the end of the day. Some casualties are to be expected but I'm sure we'd be home by Christmas.

Didn't Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq start off with "They'll be home by Christmas?"

Don't forget both World Wars.

[Janszoonia]

Yes and no.

Are missile defense programs in Japan?

Yes

Are they owned by Japan?

No

If it can keep the Japanese alive I don't care if the Martians own it.

Japan needs the ability to build its own MDS.

Repeal and Replace Article 9.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Well I assume we'd have them overthrown by the end of the day. Some casualties are to be expected but I'm sure we'd be home by Christmas.

Didn't Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq start off with "They'll be home by Christmas?"

I don't think so. Sadly it's something we've stopped saying.

[New haven america]

IB: "Ok, so do you think it will stay stable?"

Yo no se. Depending on how the next few years go the economy could stabilize/stay stable, or it could crash, all depends on how the next few years turn out.

But with your best prediction, you'd say we prolly won't see a crash?

Probably, but it all depends on how Trump and the Reps. handle things in their next few years.

[Shofercia]

And if they attack Camp Humphreys in retaliation?

Well I assume we'd have them overthrown by the end of the day. Some casualties are to be expected but I'm sure we'd be home by Christmas.

Millions of casualties and potential war with Russia and China, not to mention Seoul, and perhaps Tokyo, in ruins.

And if they attack Camp Humphreys in retaliation?

Yongsan is embedded inside Seoul like a chocolate filling as well.

Yep.

Does Japan have that?

It wouldn't be hard for us to station some there. Japan is a good little puppet after all

THAAD won't be able to defend all of Japan, and it's densely populated. You know that.

[Internationalist Bastard]

If it can keep the Japanese alive I don't care if the Martians own it.

Japan needs the ability to build its own MDS.

Repeal and Replace Article 9.

Sure, whatever. Just keep the name Defense Force, sounds way cooler

[Washington Resistance Army]

Well I assume we'd have them overthrown by the end of the day. Some casualties are to be expected but I'm sure we'd be home by Christmas.

Millions of casualties and potential war with Russia and China, not to mention Seoul, and perhaps Tokyo, in ruins.

China isn't going to war with us because it would shatter their economy and Russia can just have 2,500 of our nukes aimed at it.

THAAD won't be able to defend all of Japan, and it's densely populated. You know that.

Clearly the solution is to build more

[Conserative Morality]

Despite the eccentricity of totalitarian dictators (not unique to NK), the regime is certainly rational when it comes to their security. You're assuming that North Korea will always be the way it is and will never change, when this isn't the case.

The most ideal resolution to the conflict is Korean reunification and integration of North Korea into the world economy. The regime isn't going to last forever, and we have yet to see the results of Kim Jong-un increasingly liberalizing North Korea's economy. A larger middle class may demand greater openness and change a la South Korea and Taiwan, and integration into the world economy will demand greater openness as in China.

Or it could backslide again, as it did from the 70s onward, and get even worse. We're looking at a pretty fucking unique situation in NK. Few dictators have managed to create the totalitarian societies they desire, or, in Un's case, run them. States with much weaker controls on the population have managed to rule by force for hundreds of years - why is NK exempt from this possibility?

[Janszoonia]

Japan needs the ability to build its own MDS.

Repeal and Replace Article 9.

Sure, whatever. Just keep the name Defense Force, sounds way cooler

That and it's not as scary to the west as "Imperial Japanese Army". It is much scarier to the guys we want to be scared (China and N. Korea).

[Arumdaum]

Which is why South Korea has an entire government ministry dedicated to pursuing reunification...

Yeah, and I'm sure page one starts with avoid "at all costs".

Yeah, no. Are you even trying to make an argument?

Former President Park Geun-hye extolled reunification as "daebak" (great/bonanza).

The capital city Seoul has a war memorial in which an ROK soldier embraces his brother in a DPRK uniform.

In middle school (public school) we had a speaker from North Korea and talk to us about how great reunification was, and had to make pro-reunification posters during class. That wouldn't happen if the country didn't want reunification.

[New haven america]

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I think that almost everyone who is sane and informed, wants the Korean Unification, since that is the only sensible way for Korea to abandon nuclear weapons.

I doubt South Korea wants to be unified with a dirt poor nation of uneducated indoctrinated radicals.

It's actually becoming a more common belief of the younger generations in SK that they probably shouldn't reunite.

[Dooom35796821595]

I doubt South Korea wants to be unified with a dirt poor nation of uneducated indoctrinated radicals. Not to mention that near every other country in the world have a sensible way to abandon nuclear weapons, just do it.

Like Israel? Like India? Like Pakistan? Perhaps like Iran? It's one thing for Australia, a nation whose biggest threat is the Emu, to abandoned nuclear weapons. It's another thing for a Middle Eastern country to do that. Or North Korea. What if Saddam actually got nukes? Or Khadaffi? You think they'd still be invaded?

Nukes serve as a deterrent to invasion. Once Korea is unified - there's nothing to invade. Short of that, North Korea will continue to have nukes, and we'll continue to speak of potential war. Also, South Korea wasn't flowing in wealth in the 1950s. Would your country work hard for 70 years to double its size and prestige? I think it's a project worth pursuing.

I'd post a list of countries that don't have nukes, but I think that'd count as spam. But it's near 200.

Nukes are expensive, the only ones who can afford it are the UNSC 5 and nations with a severe need, like one surrounded by enemies (Israel) or to avoid constant border engadgements, (India & Pakistan)

No, most countries can't see 10 years into the future, yet alone 100. And you think the democratic nation of South Korea wants to double its voter base with a illiterate population of starving farmers who worship a political dynasty? Too many unknowns by half.

[Petrasylvania]

Like Israel? Like India? Like Pakistan? Perhaps like Iran? It's one thing for Australia, a nation whose biggest threat is the Emu, to abandoned nuclear weapons. It's another thing for a Middle Eastern country to do that. Or North Korea. What if Saddam actually got nukes? Or Khadaffi? You think they'd still be invaded?

Nukes serve as a deterrent to invasion. Once Korea is unified - there's nothing to invade. Short of that, North Korea will continue to have nukes, and we'll continue to speak of potential war. Also, South Korea wasn't flowing in wealth in the 1950s. Would your country work hard for 70 years to double its size and prestige? I think it's a project worth pursuing.

I'd post a list of countries that don't have nukes, but I think that'd count as spam. But it's near 200.

Nukes are expensive, the only ones who can afford it are the UNSC 5 and nations with a severe need, like one surrounded by enemies (Israel) or to avoid constant border engadgements, (India & Pakistan)

No, most countries can't see 10 years into the future, yet alone 100. And you think the democratic nation of South Korea wants to double its voter base with a illiterate population of starving farmers who worship a political dynasty? Too many unknowns by half.

To be fair, we don't actually know if the average North Koreans actually worship the Kims like Trump wants his base to worship him, or if they're paying lip service so they don't get sent off to "vanish".

[Arumdaum]

Despite the eccentricity of totalitarian dictators (not unique to NK), the regime is certainly rational when it comes to their security. You're assuming that North Korea will always be the way it is and will never change, when this isn't the case.

The most ideal resolution to the conflict is Korean reunification and integration of North Korea into the world economy. The regime isn't going to last forever, and we have yet to see the results of Kim Jong-un increasingly liberalizing North Korea's economy. A larger middle class may demand greater openness and change a la South Korea and Taiwan, and integration into the world economy will demand greater openness as in China.

Or it could backslide again, as it did from the 70s onward, and get even worse. We're looking at a pretty fucking unique situation in NK. Few dictators have managed to create the totalitarian societies they desire, or, in Un's case, run them. States with much weaker controls on the population have managed to rule by force for hundreds of years - why is NK exempt from this possibility?

North Korea's economy today is quite different than how it was prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc and the liberalization of China. There are estimates that up to half of North Korea's economy today is in the private sector and there is a greater focus on profit in the state sector. North Korea's economy was previously tied to aid from the Soviet Union, East Germany, and China, and the cutting of aid severely hurt their economy.

However, China today is able to better afford aid and is not willing to reduce aid at risk of regime collapse.

Also, the world today is significantly different today than it was prior to industrialization.

[Janszoonia]

I doubt South Korea wants to be unified with a dirt poor nation of uneducated indoctrinated radicals.

It's actually becoming a more common belief of the younger generations in SK that they probably shouldn't reunite.

They are starting to develop completely different languages. North Korea's language has not changed much since the 1950's. South Korea has adopted numerous English words, this trend will continue.

[Arumdaum]

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[The East Marches II]

Well I assume we'd have them overthrown by the end of the day. Some casualties are to be expected but I'm sure we'd be home by Christmas.

Millions of casualties and potential war with Russia and China, not to mention Seoul, and perhaps Tokyo, in ruins.

Yongsan is embedded inside Seoul like a chocolate filling as well.

Yep.

It wouldn't be hard for us to station some there. Japan is a good little puppet after all

THAAD won't be able to defend all of Japan, and it's densely populated. You know that.

There is the real rub, Ivan helped them get the nukes for reason, they like them just as much as China.

[Arumdaum]

I doubt South Korea wants to be unified with a dirt poor nation of uneducated indoctrinated radicals.

It's actually becoming a more common belief of the younger generations in SK that they probably shouldn't reunite.

More common among younger people, but the majority still desire reunification.

this source shows the percentage of 19-29 year olds not wanting reunification at 29%, while 71% still want it to varying degrees

[Dooom35796821595]

Yeah, and I'm sure page one starts with avoid "at all costs".

Yeah, no. Are you even trying to make an argument?

Former President Park Geun-hye extolled reunification as "daebak" (great/bonanza).

The capital city Seoul has a war memorial in which an ROK soldier embraces his brother in a DPRK uniform.

In middle school (public school) we had a speaker from North Korea and talk to us about how great reunification was, and had to make pro-reunification posters during class. That wouldn't happen if the country didn't want reunification.

It sounds like the people who genuinely belive that global nuclear disarmament would result in lasting peace, nice idealistic, propaganda completely devoid of facts or realism.

I'd post a list of countries that don't have nukes, but I think that'd count as spam. But it's near 200.

Nukes are expensive, the only ones who can afford it are the UNSC 5 and nations with a severe need, like one surrounded by enemies (Israel) or to avoid constant border engadgements, (India & Pakistan)

No, most countries can't see 10 years into the future, yet alone 100. And you think the democratic nation of South Korea wants to double its voter base with a illiterate population of starving farmers who worship a political dynasty? Too many unknowns by half.

To be fair, we don't actually know if the average North Koreans actually worship the Kims like Trump wants his base to worship him, or if they're paying lip service so they don't get sent off to "vanish".

I agree, Its something that would need considerable investigation alongside many other factors before blindly reunifying the peninsula.

[Arumdaum]

Like Israel? Like India? Like Pakistan? Perhaps like Iran? It's one thing for Australia, a nation whose biggest threat is the Emu, to abandoned nuclear weapons. It's another thing for a Middle Eastern country to do that. Or North Korea. What if Saddam actually got nukes? Or Khadaffi? You think they'd still be invaded?

Nukes serve as a deterrent to invasion. Once Korea is unified - there's nothing to invade. Short of that, North Korea will continue to have nukes, and we'll continue to speak of potential war. Also, South Korea wasn't flowing in wealth in the 1950s. Would your country work hard for 70 years to double its size and prestige? I think it's a project worth pursuing.

I'd post a list of countries that don't have nukes, but I think that'd count as spam. But it's near 200.

Nukes are expensive, the only ones who can afford it are the UNSC 5 and nations with a severe need, like one surrounded by enemies (Israel) or to avoid constant border engadgements, (India & Pakistan)

No, most countries can't see 10 years into the future, yet alone 100. And you think the democratic nation of South Korea wants to double its voter base with a illiterate population of starving farmers who worship a political dynasty? Too many unknowns by half.

1. South Koreans want reunification
2. North Koreans are literate
3. Personality cult, while big, isn't as big as people generally think it is

[Salandriagado]

They don't need to have anything in common. North Korea has something China wants: mining rights. China has the military might to take it. If NK ever does something stupid, or is a smidgen too awkward about giving those rights to China, they'll be under Chinese rule pretty much immediately. If a war does start between the Koreas and NK starts it, I wouldn't put it past China to just invade NK from the north to shift the border south of as many mines as it can.

You can't just invade countries randomly, at least not countries that are as militarized as North Korea. This isn't going to be like the War in Iraq.

You're assuming that China gives a fuck about little things like genocide.

[Arumdaum]

Yeah, no. Are you even trying to make an argument?

Former President Park Geun-hye extolled reunification as "daebak" (great/bonanza).

The capital city Seoul has a war memorial in which an ROK soldier embraces his brother in a DPRK uniform.

In middle school (public school) we had a speaker from North Korea and talk to us about how great reunification was, and had to make pro-reunification posters during class. That wouldn't happen if the country didn't want reunification.

It sounds like the people who genuinely belive that global nuclear disarmament would result in lasting peace, nice idealistic, propaganda completely devoid of facts or realism.

yeah lmao random westerner on the internet clearly knows more than experts, both korean and western, who've literally been living and studying this their whole lives B)

Based on what you're saying, you know literally nothing about Korea. Perhaps you're the one devoid of facts and realism?

[Arumdaum]

Does Japan have that?

Yes and no.

Are missile defense programs in Japan?

Yes

Are they owned by Japan?

No

We need to work with Japan to repeal and replace article 9, which pretty much prevents them from having a military.

"We need to work with Japan to get rid of something their people want"

The US has been pushing Japan to get rid of Article 9 since the beginning of the Cold War, and countless Japanese PMs have been trying to get rid of it. However, it is very popular in Japan.

[Janszoonia]

Yes and no.

Are missile defense programs in Japan?

Yes

Are they owned by Japan?

No

We need to work with Japan to repeal and replace article 9, which pretty much prevents them from having a military.

"We need to work with Japan to get rid of something their people want"

The US has been pushing Japan to get rid of Article 9 since the beginning of the Cold War, and countless Japanese PMs have been trying to get rid of it. However, it is very popular in Japan.

I believe that nations have a right to protect themselves. The U.S. has no time or money for the squabbles of Japan. Repeal and replace Article 9.

[Dooom35796821595]

It sounds like the people who genuinely belive that global nuclear disarmament would result in lasting peace, nice idealistic, propaganda completely devoid of facts or realism.

yeah lmao random westerner on the internet clearly knows more than experts, both korean and western, who've literally been living and studying this their whole lives B)

Based on what you're saying, you know literally nothing about Korea. Perhaps you're the one devoid of facts and realism?

What I'm saying is immediate reunification is a bad idea, and that it would require a lot more info planning and communication before laying the groundwork. And the sources you provide show support for immediate reunification is about 15%, similar percent don't want reunification. while more then half want to proceed cautiously.