The good news is we will be able to bond when we have to scrounge for food in garbage dumps after the Koreans destroys electricity with an EMP attack.

I'll make sure that if I find a chihuahua to eat I will share it with you, brother. We'll fry it up and remember the good times together.

I was watching at work with the captions and figured it was the CC being funny, but.. shit. Here, have my Overwatch lootboxes, Korea.

"Samsung gets wiped off the map and erased from the global supply chain."

I admire your ability to see the good in bad things.

Dumb chickenhawk americans keep thinking their enemies are just artillery targets standing out in the middle of a scrubland desert waiting for a bomb to hit them.

Dumb fucks like m-deem are the ones that start wars thinking they'll only last 2 weeks and that only enemy soldiers will die. also will be greeted as liberators.

The joke is, if anyone wants to make a video called What A War With The United States Would Look Like, you'd have to look up the Nazis to find stock footage that competes with us in the top tier of pure violent horror.

Fear is the only war America loses without meaning to.

SolRo, while I totally agree we'd lose the shit out of a war with North Korea, I disagree that it wont be on purpose to destabilize our economic rivals. We don't start wars to destroy our stated target, we have a real secret target we Dick Cheney quail hunt instead. If you're on the North American continent, you're safe (unless the war is unpopular, then a few missiles might "accidentally" slip through). And yeah, you describe our enemies exactly, because they are not soldiers, but economic rivals and the civilians that power them. We don't fight wars with other militaries, we use our military to target everyone else around them.

That's why we're so close with Russia, we both do the same shit, often together.

Honestly, the idea that a nation could destroy our War Empire against our will is just too damned optimistic for my cold, flinty heart. I admire it though, and want you to continue preaching it. Maybe after the bitcoin collapse of the global economy, our card can be pulled. Until then, nah, the equator will run red with the world's blood like Hell's own storm gutter first.

But colonel porkchop and friends said it would be tanks and artillery and ground troops. I'm glad that one dude pointed out at 2:50 that Pyongyang would fire it's missles into Seoul and then in turn Seoul would fire it's artillery and missles into Pyongyang. WOW. DEEP.

Major population centers in South Korea including Seoul are within range of conventional artillery. So even if the war was short, it would still be extremely devastating. That's why it's easy for Trump to rattle Kim's cage, but that rattling makes the South Koreans extremely uneasy.

Fair enough but if South Korea can offer us unbeatable cash back and 10 year 100000 mile limited drivetrain warranty on the all new 2019 kia sorento certainly we can offer them devastating support from the air and sea. It's what friends are for

Counterpoint;

trump is president

President controls US military

trump only cares about his (and to a lesser extent his relative's) prestige and wealth. has almost zero understanding of global economics.

China gave trump a bunch of trademarks and patents to operate businesses in the country. China makes all the cheap shit sold under the Trump brand and the garbage his wife peddles.

Thus trump has no personal reason (the only reason that matters to him) to fight china either economically or militarily.

QED

Though he does have a reason to start a fight with North Korea; He was insulted by Kim, and he has the delicate ego of an emo teenage girl. that just got dumped. that is going through a hormonal thing. that is listening to a lot of nu-metal emo music.

So the real question is if trump is dumb and brash enough to start a war with best korea before someone smart with access to him makes it through the throngs of idiot sycophants surrounding him to explain how much money he'd lose by starting the war.

"delicate ego of an emo teenage girl. that just got dumped"

Finally something solro is qualified to speak on

Meme, you seem to think that America's foreign policy is coherent. SolRo's got it nailed. If we go to war it will be for the entirely shortsighted reasons of the people empowered to start wars: politicians. We'll go to war because Trump thinks it'll boost his reelection campaign, or because he's racist against those ching-chong guys, or because he figures he can buy irradiated Seoul real estate cheap. Or, most likely, we will go to war because of a stupid mistake that snowballs and no one backs down.

Counter-counterpoint:

If you think Trump being an idiot will save us from secret not secret proxy wars, you belong in the same category as him. He's just the guy who says "blast em" like a child from behind his spray-tan privacy screen, after which every detail of any significance whatsoever gets delegated down to guys who have a pretty good handle on what they're doing, and also happen to be more or less the same guys who have been running these military campaigns all along.

There hasn't been a president who has dictated large scale military strategy since 1961.