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John wrote:** 27-Dec-2019 World View: Free or Not-free?

FishbellykanakaDude wrote: > ..and then there's:
>
> Bangladesh
> Bhutan
> Brunei
> (India?)
> Mongolia
> Myanmar
> Nepal
> (Pakistan?)
> Russia
> Singapore
> Tajikistan
> Turkmenistan
> Uzbekistan

> ..and possibly Vancouver Canada.

Are you claiming that those are free or not-free?

Vancouver is certainly expensive, which means it's quite not-free.

..you could probably pick up Tajikistan for pocket change and a bag of slingshots (those cheap aluminum ones).

We can't fix North Korea. Short of a nuclear exchange there is no solution. It's time to accept it is South Korea's problem to solve. Get our troopers off the DMZ and preferably out of Korea. I served on the DMZ 51 years ago, it is a god forsaken place. Nothing has changed. The South Koreans need to grow a pair or fold their cards. Good news for American car manufacturers--not so good for Kia.

** 30-Dec-2019 World View: America out of Korea?

Guest wrote: > We can't fix North Korea. Short of a nuclear exchange there is no
> solution. It's time to accept it is South Korea's problem to
> solve. Get our troopers off the DMZ and preferably out of Korea. I
> served on the DMZ 51 years ago, it is a god forsaken
> place. Nothing has changed. The South Koreans need to grow a pair
> or fold their cards. Good news for American car manufacturers--not
> so good for Kia.

Thank you for your service.

I assume you're aware that what you're suggesting is exactly what the
Chinese and North Koreans are demanding. If your suggestions are
followed, it would be an immediate green light to North Korea to
destroy Seoul with artillery and short-range missiles, and to
immediately resume testing of nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic
missiles that would be targeting Japan and the United States.

John wrote:** 30-Dec-2019 World View: America out of Korea?

Guest wrote: > We can't fix North Korea. Short of a nuclear exchange there is no
> solution. It's time to accept it is South Korea's problem to
> solve. Get our troopers off the DMZ and preferably out of Korea. I
> served on the DMZ 51 years ago, it is a god forsaken
> place. Nothing has changed. The South Koreans need to grow a pair
> or fold their cards. Good news for American car manufacturers--not
> so good for Kia.

Thank you for your service.

I assume you're aware that what you're suggesting is exactly what the
Chinese and North Koreans are demanding. If your suggestions are
followed, it would be an immediate green light to North Korea to
destroy Seoul with artillery and short-range missiles, and to
immediately resume testing of nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic
missiles that would be targeting Japan and the United States.

No matter the excuses, John, America can't seem to win a war anymore. We can find all sort of unproven reasons as to how victories could have been achieved, but the history of wars involving the US following WWII have been bad news for the US. Failures for whatever reasons but failures nevertheless.

BTW, how are things going in Afghanistan? Syria? Iraq?

Kinda messy huh?

Thank you for your service.

I assume you're aware that what you're suggesting is exactly what the
Chinese and North Koreans are demanding. If your suggestions are
followed, it would be an immediate green light to North Korea to
destroy Seoul with artillery and short-range missiles, and to
immediately resume testing of nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic
missiles that would be targeting Japan and the United States.

The end game is likely someone is going have to drop the bomb on them. It will not end pretty.

** 30-Dec-2019 World View: American Exceptionalism

Guest wrote: > No matter the excuses, John, America can't seem to win a war
> anymore. We can find all sort of unproven reasons as to how
> victories could have been achieved, but the history of wars
> involving the US following WWII have been bad news for the
> US. Failures for whatever reasons but failures nevertheless.

> BTW, how are things going in Afghanistan? Syria? Iraq?

> Kinda messy huh?

That will never happen.

As I've written in the past, there are a lot of people, in America and
in the world, who believe in American Exceptionalism, and who truly
believe that America has a moral obligation, or even a Christian
obligation, or even an obligation dictated by God, to fulfill
American's Manifest Destiny, and to do the right thing, and they would
not consider withdrawing from the world as the way to do the right
thing.

If America continues to have troops in Korea, then there will be World
War III, and we will be drawn into it. If America withdraws from
Korea, then there will be World War III, and we will be drawn into it.
In other words, World War III is 100% certain no matter what we do.
So, you see, it makes no difference at all whether we stay in Korea or
not.

31-Dec-19 World View -- American airstrikes on Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah provoke international fury

Iran may have purposely baited the Americans to make the airstrikes

** 31-Dec-19 World View -- American airstrikes on Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah provoke international fury
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e191231


Contents:
US forces strike facilities of Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq and Syria
Kataib Hezbollah justifications and responses
Consequences of the airstrikes on anti-Iran anti-government protests
Iran may have purposely baited the Americans to make the airstrikes


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Iraq, Iran,
Kataib Hezbollah, KH, Mohammed Mohieh, Hezbollah Brigades - Iraq,
Popular Mobilization Forces, PMF, Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC,
Lebanon, Hezbollah,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Mike Pompeo, Adel Abdul Mahdi, Russia, China,
Iran/Iraq war, Iranian Hostage Crisis,
Truman Doctrine

** 31-Dec-2019 World View: Iran-backed protesters in Iraq attack American embassy

• Tuesday's attack on American embassy in Baghdad by Iran-backed
  protesters (CNN)

Right now, while you're totally obsessed with really important news
like the latest Pelosi quote, there's a major attack going on by
Iran-backed protesters in Baghdad, Iraq, attacking the American
embassy.

Apparently the embassy has not yet been evacuated, although the
American ambassador to Iraq is not present.

As I wrote in today's article, this kind of thing is fully in Iran's
playbook, trying to repeat the success of the 1979 civil war in
uniting Iranians behind the clerics by attacking the American embassy
in Tehran, causing the "Iranian Hostage Crisis."

However, this will fail for the reasons that I've explained in many
articles -- what works in a generational Crisis era (1979) fails in a
generation Awakening or Unraveling era (today).

The Iraqi armed forces are supposed to be protecting the American
embassy. Events are developing.

---- Sources:

-- Protesters storm US embassy compound in Baghdad
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/ ... 26066.html
(Al Jazeera, 31-Dec-2019)

-- Protesters attack US embassy in Baghdad after airstrikes
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/31/middleea ... index.html
(CNN, 31-Dec-2019)


Related Article:

** 31-Dec-19 World View -- American airstrikes on Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah provoke international fury
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e191231

1-Jan-20 World View -- US sends troops to Baghdad to defend embassy from Iranian rioters


The link to the 1979 attack on US embassy in Tehran

** 1-Jan-20 World View -- US sends troops to Baghdad to defend embassy from Iranian rioters
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... 200101.htm



Contents:
US sends troops to Baghdad to defend embassy from Iranian rioters
Mainstream media reactions
The link to the 1979 attack on US embassy in Tehran


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Iraq, Iran,
Hadi Al-Amiri, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis
Qais al-Khazali, Asaib Ahl al Haq,
Kataib Hezbollah, KH, Mohammed Mohieh, Hezbollah Brigades - Iraq,
Popular Mobilization Forces, PMF, Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC,
Iran/Iraq war, Iranian Hostage Crisis,
Matthew Tueller, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Chris Murphy,
Abu Alaa Al-Walai, Kata'ib Sayyid Al-Shuhada,
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, UAE, Bahrain

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