re: #324 Weaselone

You guys are ridiculous. Russia’s not going to get themselves wiped out in order to defend North Korea. Russia’s hope is that North Korea destroys some of our major urban centers and reduces us to a 2nd rate power economically overnight. Our military will follow when we can no longer afford to flush 1 trillion dollars down the toilet designing our next generation weapon system that’s almost as good as the current one.

China’s most likely play is to hope NK takes out some of our bases in the Pacific and then to invade NK from the north to prevent a flood of refugees and maintain a buffer zone between itself and the South.

Both of the countries are served best by letting NK do whatever damage to the US that it can in any confrontation and then moving against NK to secure their interests. Their interest is not served by getting involved in a nuclear exchange with the US and having us plant big glowing mushrooms in their major cities and military bases.

China and Russia are certainly in it for the long game. China has been pretty clear that any attack against North Korea would be responded to, but they could be lying (then never trusted again by any other nation with an agreement with China).

We drop a nuke on North Korea to hit its hardened labs and facilities, the fallout will travel over their nations.

They’re likely to get testy about that.