Yea uhhh probably best not to apply the logic of the bullshit going on stateside to actual war drills and scenarios. These are real countries with military might, not just disgruntled and confused civilians being emotionally manipulated by their local news media. Korea is still in Asia, so whatever fuckery the US and NK get into,no asian country is going to be looking forward to the fallout, and there are others who would look to maximize. You guys seem to be in some fantasy world where every country on the planet is truly a US ally who's scared to death of offending us and ready to kamikaze into our "enemies".
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US-S.Korea performs joint bombing drill over Korean Peninsula as a SOF
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Yea uhhh probably best not to apply the logic of the bullshit going on stateside to actual war drills and scenarios. These are real countries with military might, not just disgruntled and confused civilians being emotionally manipulated by their local news media. Korea is still in Asia, so whatever fuckery the US and NK get into,no asian country is going to be looking forward to the fallout, and there are others who would look to maximize. You guys seem to be in some fantasy world where every country on the planet is truly a US ally who's scared to death of offending us and ready to kamikaze into our "enemies".
Angelus Errare
Banned
I thought it was "Show of force" lol.
America should piss off making things worse.
Such as SAAD. That system clearly aims at China and Russia. NK don't need ballistic missileto strike South Korea, and that thing's range is unnecessarily big.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Lol yeah, this totally all America'a doing. Totally separate from them firing rockets at Japan.
Earthbound64
Banned
You're probably right. "Special Operations Forces" was just what came up when I searched for the acronym.
OP probably should have written out the words.
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
Then they should stop causing it in the South China Sea and sovereign Bhutanese territory.
In reality, they care enough about flexing their muscle than causing a little instability. What bothers them is only when other countries cause it.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
China should be more pissed at NK. They flew a missile over another country's airspace.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Seems like you think any trouble is call 'instability'.
I shouldn't be laughing but I did.
KojiKnight
Member
No room in the title, I hit the character cap. It is Show Of Force. I really wanted "in response to missile firing over Japan" but that fit even less
Trump pissed China off by spouting off more trade war stuff the last couple weeks, they aren't in the mood to back the USA on anything, but don't want war near them either.
Earthbound64
Banned
"US-S.Korea performs joint bombing drill over Korean Peninsula as a Show of Force 1234" fits for me...
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
No, but China's aggression with which it pushes its unreasonable territorial claims causes instability, yes.
Lonewulfeus
Member
Gaf has a defense force for everything.
Criticising the United States isn't a defense of North Korea.
Truth be told, there's nothing more lazy than to say that "China just 'many sides!'d" when discussing the issue of North Korea and their military posturing, and ending that sentence with it being "absolutely unacceptable" is pretty ridiculous.
What we're talking about here is the potential for a war that could very well spiral into something far worse if diplomacy and de-escalation aren't put at the forefront. Obviously, these have limitations, but in order to understand what could provoke a response from North Korea you actually have to take a step back and actually attempt to understand it.
Regarding China, right now all we have is 'China needs to be doing more', 'this is their responsibilty' and so on and so on. On the surface there isn't anything wrong with this. I mean, we saw the loophole that China used in the last UN sanctions with the coal exports - but the issue here is this. After Kim Jong-il had died, the relationship between the two nations took a shift in direction. China has never wanted North Korea to aquire nuclear weapons, but at the same time they've also wanted the regime to be stable. With Kim Jong-un as leader, both of these have fallen by the wayside and this is concerning for all parties, including China. If China were to adopt harsher measures and slowly cut ties to an already strained relationship then that works in opposition to regional stability in the Korean peninsula. They don't want a war, they don't want a unstable and irrational North Korea and with the emegence of their nuclear weapons you can either push for diplomacy or you opt for brashness and posturing. Doing the latter to a regime that is failing will either result in a dramatic shift in policy from North Korea or it will result in war. This isn't even considering a first-strike scenario from the United States which undoubtedly would lead to a regional war.