[PEN-L:33107] Re: Re: Re: Re: NK nukes

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> No small nation is going to use nuclear weapons except _in extremis_.
> They can't do more than symbolic damage (terrible loss of life, but
> symbolic in respect to the power of the u.s., Japan, EU), but they can
> and would be obliterared in return.

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Thus Israel, Pakistan, India [small in terms of it's current nuke
capabilities] and NK pose no threat to the US or anyone else by virtue
of their possession of nukes. Thus undoing the need/obligation for Japan
or the US to provide aid/appeasement.




> On the whole the possession of a few nuclear bombs by nations not
among
> u.s. allies probably reduces rather than increases the risks of
nuclear
> war.

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Thus the US response to NK is counterproductive. Something we've known
for quite a while.



> SOMETHING has to reign in the U.S., which represents a risk to
humanity
> orders of magnitude greater than does any other state.
>
> Carrol

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If appeasement won't work and 21st century military/diplomatic strategy
games of "chicken" won't undo the current US practice of
racketeering...................


Ian