Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
President Trump has often said that his foreign policy objective was to keep his enemies guessing. If that’s the goal, you could say that he’s doing a good job. The problem is who does he think his enemies are, because the American people are often left guessing as well.
In recent years, North Korea has frustrated the US intelligence community, which has struggled to determine exactly how Kim Jong Un and his regime have managed to make so much progress, so quickly in their quest to develop a nuclear weapon capable of striking the Continental US.
Submitted by The Saker,
First, the bragging dummies
Earlier this week, Seoul asked the US to delay joint military exercises with Japan until after the Winter Olympics, ostensibly to avoid provoking North Korea ahead of the 2018 Winter Games.
Authored by Ryan Pickrell via The Daily Caller,
The odds that the U.S. will attack North Korea are disconcertingly high, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham revealed.
“There’s a three in 10 chance we use the military option,” Graham told the Atlantic on Wednesday, adding that he “would say 70 percent” if North Korea conducts a seventh nuclear test.
“We’re not to the tipping point yet,” he said, but “if they test another [nuclear] weapon, then all bets are off.”