Didn’t Trump bomb that Syrian runway without permission? After the “gas attack.”
Such an act could easily trigger war.
I’m not excusing any other POTUS’s acts. Just saying, Trump has already exhibited this behavior….
Trump doesn’t have any “good” options here. It may have been part of the reason Obama was so hesitant to do something drastic. Obama knew it was a pool of gasoline. I think he understood the volatility of the situation, and tried to punt it to his successor. Not courageous, but he didn’t get a lot of people killed…
This is one of the main reasons I didn’t want Trump in office. This is a tumultuous issue, and it could go sideways easily. Inaction is almost preferable. But NK is ramping up their R and D, and Trump’s rhetoric is validating Kim’s paranoia…
The world will have to bite it’s lips, as two of the most insecure world leaders play a game of chicken…
I don’t envy Trump here. He has a lot of tricky variables at play. He could shock the world, and make great decisions here. And it could still end up a catastrophe.
My biggest fear, is someone briefing Trump in the middle of the night about some potential launch, in a couple years. I’ve read that our missile defense systems could inadvertently make Russia think we fired nukes at them, and they have a reflexive/automated countermeasure/counter strike system. According to a lot of sources, the Russian’s nuclear weapons program is still set up as it was in USSR days. The system is made to assure mutual annihilation, if it detects what it perceives as a preemptive nuclear strike by the US…
A chaotic chain reaction of events,could have cataclysmic results…