Fearmongering for Profit

For the past few weeks, the war of words between the US and North Korea has reached absurd levels.

The US has been holding multiple military exercises, thereby provoking North Korea into angry reactions.

Those angry North Korean reactions have resulted in North Korea successfully testing intermediate-range ballistic missiles. The US propaganda mill has gone further by screaming that North Korea tested an ICBM capable of reaching US.

This cannot be verified independently, but the Russian military has stated that their assessment points to an IRBM, that may have failed.

North Korea nevertheless announced that it successfully tested an ICBM, feeding US paranoia.

This has led to Trump making bellicose statements about reacting with ‘fire and fury,’ and in turn the North Koreans stated that they will strike the island of Guam, which is home to a US airbase.

As expected, the US regime and their media prostitutes have been exaggerating and creating a crisis out of what is basically just a staring-down contest between North Korea and the US.

Neither side is going to attack the other; both are just trying to look tough in the eyes of the world.

It’s just a bunch of grade-schoolyard name-calling.

The US is definitely not going to attack North Korea because North Korea has nuclear weapons, and is therefore off-limits. It also has hundreds of thousands of soldiers ready to spill across the border. South Korea won’t be able to contain it, and neither will the US, which only has 30K soldiers stationed in SK.

Also, North Korea has a mutual defense pact with China, and if the US strikes North Korea first, China has announced that it will help North Korea. This is a nightmare for the Pentagoons.

What this bluster is really all about is money.

Trump is a businessman and an actor. He’s using his skill sets to provoke North Korea into a dramatic response which will be used by the US to scare and force its South Korean and Japanese vassals to buy more US military hardware, and toe the line as far as THAAD deployments and other bad US ideas are concerned. This became a priority for the US in order to shut down the new South Korean president’s initiative of establishing a dialogue with the North.

The US doesn’t want this because it could undermine their authority, and lessen South Koreans appetite for having US troops in their country.

Kim Jong-Un is a very convenient and profitable guy for the US to provoke.

I suspect that this may also be a big bluff by US to force North Korea into some type of an economic concession where it will allow US to exploit some of its natural resources in return for some agreement.

As we all know, US doesn’t do anything for free, and never has.

North Korea is also not going to attack anyone. They realize this is not in their interest. Their missile tests are simply a warning to the US and others not to mess with them, and as a way to pressure US and others to start negotiations. The US knows this, but instead of talking, it postures and puts on a useless show with military planes and soldiers. I suspect US wants to talk, but it doesn’t want to be the first one to give in.

So forget about any US invasions or airstrikes on North Korea. It won’t happen. It’s a big propaganda show put on by Trump. He’s being ass-raped by the establishment domestically and is unable to realize his agenda, so he distracts people with a manufactured crisis.

What will happen is that North Korea will say something, the US will talk back, both sides will issue meaningless threats, then get tired and go onto something else-as they both did many times before. This will either all die down in the coming weeks, or some type of negotiations will take place.

But all propaganda aside, it must be reiterated that the problem on the Korean peninsula is not North Korea, but the US.

US presence in that region is unnecessary, dangerous, and runs counter to peace and stability. The US is there for its own hegemonic purposes, and it has been using North Korea as a boogeyman to justify its unnecessary presence and sell weapons to its vassals. The US also wants to use the Korean peninsula as a bridgehead against China.

Sanctioning North Korea won’t work, as the problem again is not the North, but the US.

Russia and china, who have both said in the recent past that sanctions don’t work, have bowed to US pressure and passed UN sanctions on North Korea recently.

But what is needed are sanctions against the US, which is most to blame for the existing situation. It is long way from its home shores, and interfering in other nations business.

If China and Russia continue to indulge US paranoia and recklessness, they may one day find themselves in the same position as North Korea.

Russia and China must not agree to any further sanctions on North Korea over its missile tests.

If Russia, China, US, UK and others can manufacture and test long-range missiles, so can North Korea (and Iran).

After seeing what happens to naive countries like Iraq, Libya and Syria, all who signed agreements with US to disarm and then still were bombed and invaded regardless, NK and Iran know that disarmament agreements with the US are useless, and they have decided to build a powerful enough deterrent to keep the US out. And can you blame them?

After all, the US has thousands of nuclear-tipped missiles ready to be launched at any moment. The US also has nuclear weapons in Okinawa, and may secretly have them in South Korea as well. US nuclear-armed submarines circle Korean waters.

The US is also the only country in history so far to have used nuclear weapons on civilian populations, TWICE.

After the damage the US caused to Korea, the North has a right to be paranoid. The US, with its thousands of nukes, a 1,000 military bases, and troops in 130+ countries, doesn’t have the right to complain about North Korean missiles.

So there is no question about who is the real threat to world peace, and it’s not North Korea.

As long as the US occupies the Korean peninsula and Japan, there will be no peace there worth having.