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Originally Posted by TylerSVT
I think Americans escalating things is a VERY big gamble.
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The American's are always going to go to the aid of a ally. Its a big gamble, but what isn't
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Originally Posted by TylerSVT
You are basically pulling the trigger prematurely. I cannot even imagine the amount of negative sanctions that would be placed on the US if they openly attacked a country. China, Russia etc. would all find reason not to support American economic standards.
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The problem with placing sanctions on the U.S., is that they're still constantly running a trade deficit with most countries, so while we talk about the American's going broke if you put the U.S. in a position where they start heavily reducing trade with countries like China or Russia and they decide to chop that trade or put heavy tariffs on trade coming into the U.S. then China and Russia's income that comes from this trade goes away.
So fine, sanction us, attack our econmy, but on the way down your going to suffer grieviously as well.
If the American's decide to retailiate through trade then China loses a lot of its position of strenght and both countries get hurt.
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Originally Posted by TylerSVT
NK while crazy, isnt dumb. They know that if they start ####, they will almost certainly be exterminated. As a proud people i don't seem them doing this.
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Maybe, but if the U.S. tells the NK's to blow it out their a$$ and hammers them with more sanctions meaning that the NK usual means of negotation through agitation fails then either Kim will do something truly desparate, or the NK military takes over and those guys are not exactly rational.
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Originally Posted by TylerSVT
IMO China needs to step in and both sides need to demilitarize. Kim Jong Il need to be killed or sent away to siberia or something...
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thats never going to ever happen. If I'm SK why the heck would I demilitarize if China lets say took over NK? China can demand that the Koreas disarm, NK would tell them to piss off, and if China decided to militarily push the Kims out, and the Kims backed into a corner would probably either fight to the death, or lob a couple of nukes into China. The SK would see a armed Chinese military in NK and they would never agree and the American's would never agree to sit disarmed in front of the dragons.