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Old 04-01-2013, 21:06   #8
Ghost_Team
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Fayetteville, NC
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I think the problem here is that little shit never earned anything. His dad and grandpa, for all their bluster, knew that they would lose badly in a war having already seen it happen. Fat boy and most of the generation surrounding him haven't, so he probably buys into his own bullshit to an extent.

I don't have any SF experience with Korea, and my last trip there in the big army was 15 years ago. From what I remember, I think it's gonna be bad if the balloon goes up. Even if it is Fat Boy that starts it, his cult of personality and state control of the media is so total that he could sell "The evil empires have attacked and invaded the peace loving people of the DPRK" all day long, thus turning his entire population into a farmers with pitchforks militia. Pitchforks are no match for bullets, but the PR and propaganda victory of outside military units subdueing DPRK civilians is not going to over well.

If it happens, I think it is gonna suck. I hesitate to use a Vietnam comparison, but between the climate shifts, terrain, 60 years of preparation for it, and a northern neighbor that doesn't like us very much and would love to see us bogged down in another war that they could support very easily - yeah, I'll stand by my opinion, but I hope I'm wrong.
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