Posts by cofty

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DPRK Asserts that USA has Declared War

by cofty in

north korea has taken president trump's recent statements as a declaration of war.

pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down american planes even if they are not inside their airspace.. i listened to trump's speech to the un with dismay.

it demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on kim jong-un.

cofty

Hothead you epitomise everything that is wrong with modern politics. You identify with a tribe and lose all ability to think objectively. Your age won't be an excuse forever.

You live in a bubble where the same ideas are recycled endlessly. You cannot tolerate criticism of your ideology or of its leaders and spokespersons. You show little interest in understanding the nuances of difficult issues or grasping how there are strengths and weaknesses on both sides of a debate.

I despise Kim Jong-un but not primarily because he hates the USA. I have a lot of respect for the USA but I am convinced Trump is a dangerous idiot. You need to put me in a box with a label so you can criticise me for opinions that I don't hold.

Yes I do read a great deal of books. Odd that you should use that fact as a reason to ridicule. If you want to understand NK and how we got where we are today and how we might avoid a catastrophe you need to value information more than you value your colloquial political affiliations.

If you actually want to learn more about the history and political philosophy of NK I suggest "North Korea - State of Paranoia" by Paul French

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DPRK Asserts that USA has Declared War

by cofty in

north korea has taken president trump's recent statements as a declaration of war.

pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down american planes even if they are not inside their airspace.. i listened to trump's speech to the un with dismay.

it demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on kim jong-un.

cofty

You are on team call china, good!

I have no idea what you mean. Is this something you heard on Talk Radio?

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DPRK Asserts that USA has Declared War

by cofty in

north korea has taken president trump's recent statements as a declaration of war.

pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down american planes even if they are not inside their airspace.. i listened to trump's speech to the un with dismay.

it demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on kim jong-un.

cofty

Man you are way too serious. - Hothead

Provoking a nuclear war that would result in tens of thousands of civilian deaths is as serious as life gets.

you are falling under the progressive myth that Obamas NK policy was all that great.

You know absolutely nothing about my view of Obama's foreign policy.

I support Trump doing something else even if that something else is a war that can still be fought without nuclear arms.

The human cost of a war even without nuclear weapons will be counted in tens of thousands of civilian deaths. Anybody who supports Trump making personal, childish insults under these circumstances is naive or a teenager or both.

Don't you? or are you on the "call china"-team?

China has started to respond. It has banned companies doing business with NK and conducting financial transactions. NK desperately needs fuel and food subsidies from China. Foreign aid is part of the DPRK economy. There is a difficult balance to be found. Can Kim Jong-un be tamed without triggering the collapse of the regime? Who can blame China for not wanting a failed state on its border. Of course China has itself to blame. NK was totally defeated in the Korean war before Mao committed hundreds of thousands of troops. He sent Nationalists who had opposed him in the Communist Revolution so he didn't care how many died in Korea as long as Americans were dying. Russia also prolonged the war in order to damage the USA.

am I only allowed to feel patriotic about things that happened during my lifetime

Trump's incompetence is nothing to feel patriotic about. I am broadly-speaking a big supporter of the USA in international affairs but your current commander-in-chief is an embarrassment to you.

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DPRK Asserts that USA has Declared War

by cofty in

north korea has taken president trump's recent statements as a declaration of war.

pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down american planes even if they are not inside their airspace.. i listened to trump's speech to the un with dismay.

it demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on kim jong-un.

cofty

if you think that was all Trump did you didn't listen to his speech very well lol! - Hot

I didn't say that's all he did. I did listen to his speech very carefully. I also read books by real experts on world affairs, modern history and politics. I explained why Trump's childish insults against Kim Jong-un is counterproductive in my OP. Did you read it?

Please don't finish sentences with "lol!" We are discussing whether the world can avert nuclear war.

I find it hilarious Trump talk to North Korea like North Korea talk to Trump and I bet it has an ENORMEOUS moral effect on the North Koreans when they can listen to his speeches!

Provoking nuclear war is not hilarious it is dangerous and irresponsible. It may lead to massive loss of civilian life.

If you think North Koreans listen to speeches at the UN you don't know anything about NK. North Koreans get all their information from state-owned news. The thing North Koreans will know about Trump is that according to their Supreme Leader he has declared war on them without cause and that it is time to defend their land from American aggression. Trump is being manipulated by Kim Jong-un and he can't see it.

I see no reason to respect religion and I see no reason to respect a third-world dictator lol!

My contempt for Kim Jong-un is total. If you bothered to read my OP you would see that I am not arguing that Kim 3 does not deserve ridicule. I am arguing that Trump has not got the skills, personality, knowledge or intelligence to deal with this situation effectively. (There is that 'lol' thing again. Please don't)

The speech to the UN was IMO a "tear down the wall" moment. It gave me goosebumps!

You are not old enough to remember the "tear down this wall" speech 30 years ago. There is no comparison between Kim Jong-un and Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Human Origins

by cofty in

fantastic graphic produced by the smithsonian institute illustrating human origins.

click on any of the group or species labels for more detailed information.. meet your ancestors here....

cofty

Radiometric dating is solid science.

Fishy - What books or articles that present the scientific evidence for radiometric dating have you studied?

I predict ...

1 - The honest answer is none.

2 - You will lie, obfuscate or ignore the question.

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DPRK Asserts that USA has Declared War

by cofty in

north korea has taken president trump's recent statements as a declaration of war.

pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down american planes even if they are not inside their airspace.. i listened to trump's speech to the un with dismay.

it demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on kim jong-un.

cofty

Standing up to NK is not the same thing as a world leader trading sophomoric personal insults.

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Human Origins

by cofty in

fantastic graphic produced by the smithsonian institute illustrating human origins.

click on any of the group or species labels for more detailed information.. meet your ancestors here....

cofty

I tried using Google translate on your post Fishy but they said they don't do gibberish.

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Human Origins

by cofty in

fantastic graphic produced by the smithsonian institute illustrating human origins.

click on any of the group or species labels for more detailed information.. meet your ancestors here....

cofty

Still waiting for you to actually say anything interesting on evolution Fishy.

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DPRK Asserts that USA has Declared War

by cofty in

north korea has taken president trump's recent statements as a declaration of war.

pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down american planes even if they are not inside their airspace.. i listened to trump's speech to the un with dismay.

it demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on kim jong-un.

cofty

North Korea has taken President Trump's recent statements as a declaration of war. Pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down American planes even if they are not inside their airspace.

I listened to Trump's speech to the UN with dismay. It demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on Kim Jong-un. Trump has access to the best informed experts in the world on North Korea and yet he either ignores advisors or he has surrounded himself with "yes-men".

NK follows a political doctrine of "Juche" - roughly translated as self-sufficiency. It is a development of Marxism-Leninism created by Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il and now enforced by the grandson Kim Jong-un. The official line is that Juche was invented out of "whole cloth" by the Great Leader and its Soviet and Maoist roots are denied.

Russia and China are officially denounced in the DPRK as "revisionist" and defectors from true Socialism.

As part of Juche, which encompasses every facet of policy, the entire nation is embodied in the person of the Leader. To insult the Leader is to insult every North Korean and everything they believe in. The overwhelming outpouring of grief at the death of Kim 1 in 1994 and of Kim 2 in 2011 was not entirely manufactured.

The doctrine of Juche makes change virtually impossible. Despite the cult of personality around Stalin and Mao both countries were able to reform after the death of their respective leaders. Nikita Khrushchev did 'deStalinise' the USSR and Deng Xiaoping introduced partial reform to China. The DPRK has no similar option available. "Military First" is hardwired into their failed economy. It cannot now be otherwise anymore than the current Governing Body could adopt the Trinity without deligimatising every single thing done by their predecessors.

Trump is dangerously incompetent.

Kim 3 is of course an irrational and despicable human being who rules over one of the most oppressive regimes on earth. However the objective of every politician must be to avoid massive loss of civilian life. Trump shows no sign that this is his priority.

War seems likely. How devastating it will be remains to be seen.

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Human Origins

by cofty in

fantastic graphic produced by the smithsonian institute illustrating human origins.

click on any of the group or species labels for more detailed information.. meet your ancestors here....

cofty

I agree Vidiot. Human evolution cannot be reconciled with Watchtower theology. The facts prove the entire edifice of JW doctrine is built on top of an error.