Trump threatens “fire
and fury” against North Korea
9 August 2017
US President Donald Trump yesterday issued a
bloodcurdling threat against North Korea, dramatically heightening the danger
of a war on the Korean Peninsula that could rapidly engulf the region and the
world. “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” he
warned. “They will be met with fire, fury and, frankly, power, the likes of
which this world has never seen before.”
Trump’s comments can only inflame a situation of
acute tensions following the test launching of two long-range North Korean
missiles last month and the imposition of punitive UN Security Council
sanctions that threaten to cripple North Korea’s economy. For Trump to threaten
to reduce the small impoverished country to ashes is the height of
recklessness.
Trump has deliberately undermined the efforts of
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson over the past week to lay the basis for
negotiations by reassuring North Korea that the US is not seeking regime-change
or a pretext for launching a military assault. The unstable, crisis-ridden
regime in Pyongyang can only assume that it faces an imminent and massive
attack by the United States. It is responding with its own bellicose rhetoric.
In a statement yesterday, North Korea declared
it was “examining the operational plan” to strike US bases on Guam with medium-
to long-range ballistic missiles. Such threats play directly into the hands of
the Trump administration by providing the excuse for the US to carry out
pre-emptive strikes against North Korea.
Not since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has
the world stood so close to the brink of nuclear war. An incident or accident,
whether minor or major, could trigger a conflict that rapidly draws in other
nuclear-armed powers, such as China and Russia, with incalculable consequences.
Unlike 1962, when US President John Kennedy
sought to defuse the crisis and overruled the demands of his fascistic Air
Force chief of staff, General Curtis LeMay, to bomb Russian missile sites in
Cuba, Trump is intentionally escalating the North Korean crisis. His threats
are unprecedented for a US president. One is compelled to go back to the
fascistic rants of Hitler to find any parallel.
No one should dismiss Trump’s statements as
empty rhetoric. By threatening North Korea with annihilation if it carries out
further tests, Trump has created a situation where it is impossible for him to
back down. Moreover, such is the intense crisis and infighting in American ruling
circles that Trump may be driven to launch a reckless attack on North Korea as
a means of diverting attention from the political turmoil at home.
The Trump administration, assisted by a servile
media, is already ramping up a propaganda campaign aimed at stampeding American
public opinion into believing that US cities are in imminent danger of a
nuclear attack from North Korea.
The Washington
Post yesterday featured an article entitled, “North Korea is fast
approaching Trump’s red line.” The article uncritically reported claims made in
“a previously secret Defence Intelligence Agency analysis” that Pyongyang had
produced “a miniaturised warhead that can fit inside one of the
intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) that it has been testing.”
These claims come from the same American
intelligence establishment that forged the lies about weapons of mass
destruction used to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq. They cannot be taken
at face value. Everything about North Korea’s so-called ICBMs remains in question,
including their range, accuracy, warhead load and ability to survive re-entry
into the earth’s atmosphere.
Trump is utterly indifferent to the immense loss
of life that would result from a war with North Korea. Even if the conflict
were limited to the Korean Peninsula, the number of deaths would run into the
millions. According to one estimate, the population of the South Korean capital
Seoul alone would suffer a million casualties in the first hours of the
fighting.
Speaking on the NBC “Today” program last week,
right-wing Republican Senator Lindsey Graham gave a chilling insight into
Trump’s thinking. “If there’s going to be a war to stop [Kim Jong-un], it will
be over there,” Graham said. “If thousands die, they’re going to die over
there. They are not going to die over here—and he’s told me that to my face.”
Graham declared that war was “inevitable” unless
North Korea halted its missile tests—in other words, completely capitulated to
US demands. “There will be a war with North Korea over their missile program if
they continue to try to hit America with an ICBM. [Trump] has told me that and
I believe him.”
The acute danger of war in Asia is not simply
the product of the fascistic individual Trump, but expresses the profound and
insoluble crisis of global and American capitalism. US
administrations—Republican and Democratic alike—have resorted to military
aggression in a desperate bid to reverse the protracted decline of American
capitalism and establish its global dominance.
A succession of wars in the Middle East, North
Africa and Central Asia is now coalescing into a direct confrontation between
the world’s major economic powers. The Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia”
involved an enormous military buildup throughout the Indo-Pacific in
preparation for war against China—the central target of US threats against
North Korea.
In Europe, the US is involved in one military
exercise after another as it prepares for a military confrontation with Russia,
which is engaged in its own extensive war games. In the Middle East, the US and
Russia are militarily involved on opposing sides of the Syrian conflict. Any
one of these flashpoints could become the trigger for war between nuclear-armed
powers that would kill millions, if not billions, of people and destroy
civilisation as we know it.
This extraordinarily tense situation is
extremely serious. Workers around the world cannot afford to wake up in the
morning to find that the US has launched massive attacks on North Korean military
installations and industry, that Pyongyang has retaliated by hitting Seoul and
Tokyo, and that China, Russia and the other major powers are issuing their own
threats and putting their nuclear arsenals on high alert.
AMERICA UNRAVELS:
Millions of children go hungry as the super- rich gorge
themselves.
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"The top 10 percent of Americans now own roughly
three-quarters of all household wealth."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/america-unravels-millions-of-children.html
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"While
telling workers there is “not enough money” for wage increases, or to fund
social programs, both parties hailed the recent construction of the U.S.S.
Gerald Ford, a massive aircraft carrier that cost $13 billion to build,
stuffing the pockets of numerous contractors and war profiteers."
LOS ANGELES: MEXICO'S
ANCHOR BABY BREEDING FACTORY FOR 18 YEARS OF WELFARE. JUMP THE BORDERS, GET
YOUR CHECK IN THE MAIL THE NEXT DAY!
"La Voz de Aztlan
has produced a video in honor of the millions of babies that have been born as
US citizens to Mexican undocumented parents. These babies are destined to
transform America. The nativist CNN reporter Lou Dobbs estimates that there are
over 200,000 (dated) "Anchor Babies" born every year
whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the figure is closer to 300,000 (dated) . La Voz de Aztlan believes that the number is approximately 500,000 (dated) "Anchor
Babies" born every year."
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In the state of
California, of which Los Angeles is a large part, most payouts to illegals go
first to educate them, and then to jail them after they commit crimes, and then
to pay for their medical care as they clog up emergency rooms and help
themselves to Medi-Cal benefits from funds they never paid into. Welfare
itself rates a distant fourth.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
ILLEGALS VOTING IN MASSIVE
NUMBERS IN MEX-OCCUPIED CA
''California
is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of
MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave."
And M.E.Ch.A's
goal is even more radical: an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name
this organization gives to the seven states of the U.S. Southwest –
Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah."
(GUBENATORIAL CANDIDATE and FORMER MAYOR
OF MEX-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES, IS A MEMBER OF THE MEX FASCIST SEPARATIST PARTY of
M.E.Ch.A.)
CALIFORNIA MOVES CLOSER TO
FINAL ANNEXATION BY MEXICO
DE FACTO CITIZENSHIP PER LA
RAZA:
NO TEST, NO BACKGROUND CHECKS
ON CRIMINALITY, NO BACK TAXES, NO
FINES.... JUST JUMP STRAIGHT TO
VOTING BOOTHS! AND VOTE OFTEN!!!
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