Defense Secretary Mattis visited the nuclear facilities in Minot ND recently.
In his only public comments he said, "you can leave no doubt at all he told the reporters, Don't try it. It won't work. You can't take us out.
He barred reporters from the town hall meeting with the airmen on the base.
In his only public comments he said, "you can leave no doubt at all he told the reporters, Don't try it. It won't work. You can't take us out.
He barred reporters from the town hall meeting with the airmen on the base.
China bears responsibility for supplying NK. Unless they stop the flow of oil and all other supplies into NK it would be reasonable and preferable to retaliate against them by stopping all trade between our two countries..... A major pain for us but greater for them....and far better than military action.
Exactly. As I've stated before, China is the answer to the situation, but because of economic ties between china and the US, it's impossible to use them as a lever.
If we slap sanctions on China, they will shut down production for dammed near every product we use on a daily basis. Walmart would go under, Amazon would go under, and so on.
China owns the US because they produce so many of our goods that we live with.
This is key to Trump trying to get manufacturing back to the US in his agenda, and the fawking congress is fighting him all the way to stop him. What a bunch of do-nothing swamp members.
Fatboy's missile went 2300 miles this time, Guam is 2100 miles away...
Stopping trade with China is very difficult to do but not impossible. It involves the President sitting down with congressional leaders and laying two choices on the table: war with north Korea which could well turn nuclear and which would certainly result in massive loss of life in SK even without going nuclear or massive economic war with China - stopping all trade with them, resulting in bankruptcy for Walmart, Amazon and hardship and shortages for all Americans.
It may well take a missile going off course and hitting japan or some other error by military forces to precipitate this happening. Economic war is possible and could well be the lesser of two evils.
I believe that it would be far more detrimental to us than to China if we banned imports from them based on the fact that the vast majority of consumer merchandise now imported into our country comes from China. Even much of the small arms ammunition that our military uses is manufactured in China, plus, would you want to face millions of pissed-off Wal-Mart customers that can no longer get what they want because we stopped the imports?
China isn't the only country out there we have, can, and do trade with. Cutting off our market to Chinese goods will be far more devastating to China than to us. Trust me. Amazon, Walmart, or any of the tech companies will find a way. It is business after all, and they are all entrepreneurs. Who knows! Maybe even our own manufacturers will rise up and stock our shelves with goods - maybe even help reduce the number of our unemployed.
Woody
Woody
China owns a LOT of our loans and if they recall the notes we are going to be in deep doo-doo. From an economic standpoint they have us over a barrel, we cold go bankrupt if they cashed in the notes. With that in mind, they surely wouldn't want to go to war with us owing them so much money. Would they?
Then, it could be said that WE have them over a barrel because they don't want to lose the money by warring with us.
Then, it could be said that WE have them over a barrel because they don't want to lose the money by warring with us.
Who was that guy that said, "If you owe the banks 1 million dollars, they own you. But if you owe the banks 100 million you own them"?
