Hello seeker, <<About China and a putative North Korean bomb, We should ask Tobago Jack his take on that>>
... I think it is a matter of realism vs stupidity.
China can of course pre-emptively knock out all of N.Korea, or at least can think about being able to do so.
But, should China do so, what about the next country with a nuke program? What about S.Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and all other neighbors? All would be wanting the nuke, if not for attack and revenge, then for self defense. Should then China do to the other neighbors as it thought it can to N.Korea?
Of course not, and if so, then why even start with N.Korea? If left alone, how is N.Korea a threat to China or anyone else? What, it can export nukes to jihadists ... so what does it matter to China, which is in any case not naturally supportive of regime changing actions against any and all ME states, territories, geographies, or homelands.
Nukes are stupid, is not a weapon to be invented, manufactured, or used, and nations with the mostest never thought through the issues and seemingly are incapable of doing so, period, and unable to realize 400 nukes is as good as 15,000 nukes.
The US is of a different belief, and it is trying to back up its wish with action, which in turn and over time requires still more action, assuming the world works tomorrow as it did over the past 10,000 years.
The end will be exhaustion, inevitably, because the US fails to account for the fractal scale-up of democracy, from its one person one vote schema to a one nation one nuke conclusion, driven by instinct described by Darwin.
The establishment of the US believed that winning the cold war would be nirvana. Guess what, Russia stands, with all its weapons and capabilities, still second rate, but nothing is changed, as the US still cannot stand down, not against the up and comers, and not against Russia.
Chugs, J |
