• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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      1 year ago

      china. china sittin on top of them is the huge elephant in the room no one really wants to mention whenever NK is brought up.

      we cant do shit without china saying ‘ok’. or really, china saying ‘we’ll take care of it’ which they then never do.

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        china sittin on top of them is the huge elephant in the room no one really wants to mention whenever NK is brought up.

        But i see this take pretty much every time a thread like this comes up.

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        1 year ago

        I disagree with your comment but I agree that it doesn’t break the rules. @mods let us have a discussion with people of different opinions.

        In any case, it was the Western world and the US that has been posturing. They hold north Koreans under brutal suffocating sanctions. North Korea resisting this must not be condemned.

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      1 year ago

      Because they have nuclear weapons. Imagine the disaster of the Vietnam war, but with a couple of USA cities obliterated by nuclear warheads.

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          North Korea was already leveled wall to wall with air strikes. That’s why they’re behaving this way, because the USA already demonstrated that they were willing and able to bomb the entire country until there were “no more targets” left to bomb and the Korean people needed to start living in caves to avoid the mass dropping of napalm.

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          gee i wonder why they built nuclear weapons for deterrence, just look at how peaceful and understanding the liberals are!