Daily News Thread 11/28

shock status: imagined²

Bannon and Pence sure did a number on him.

Update: Confirmed by defense department to be an ICBM. Total flight time of 50 min; missile was launched from Pyonsong over Japan's Island of Hokkaido. There were reports of three missiles being shot, but is likely a reflection of a three-stage rocket. If that is the case, DPRK now has proven their capability to hit the US' East Coast.

Trump has canceled his 3pm press conference with the press corps, will be derived to his pool if reporters instead.

Nice, they've really taken great strides in their missile program.

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That headline is Vice madlibs

I wouldn't care that much if Trump and the military actually had a competent deterrence policy. At the moment they don't, and every test is serves a provocation for the US. I'm fairly afraid of a new war at the moment.

War is more likely now than it has been in a while, sadly. But that's not all down to Trump; the strategic necessity for the DPRK has been there since the Iraq and Libya wars. We should never forget that we drifted into dangerous times a while ago. Though of course blowing up the Iran deal and being a belligerent oaf is no small matter either.

I'm not TOO worried, I doubt the DPRK views nukes as anything other than a deterrent against an invasion/regime change.

It would be perfect if they worked as a deterrent, that would settle it for everyone. The real risk is that the US high command gets it into their minds that they has to strike while their arsenal is not yet in place. The DPRK has pretty much demonstrated that they can hit the US, now all they need to do is build up a stockpile. Missile defenses might stop them now, but not when they have built dozens of missiles that can fire simultaneously.
We'll learn if the US will accept that soon enough, because their window for a conventional war is closing fast.

So what you're saying is that we're either safe or going to die really soon

Good to know! Fuck job hunting in 2017 I'm going to save as much hentai to my laptop as I can. When the rads hit I'm going to be the horniest feral ghoul around