'citin'

if anythin'

Scary

WW3 would be quite a laugh.  Make the tv pretty interesting this Christmas I should expect. 

I always said it wouldn't be the Ruskies

we had a text message... this afternoon...  from my (quite mad) mother in law who lives in Texas...  saying 

"I told you it was North Korea we should be worrying about"


bizarre really....  for that to be the thing she decides to text to her son.... first text in months

Jeepers Ditty! that's spooky

What's he up to.?. Don't scare me 

nah.... tis just the oddness that is my mother in law! 

(not saying that you are odd for saying it...  you had the context of this thread when you made your comment!)

Dropping bombs on peeps - his neighbour for one

Bizarre post.

'Ere You !  No it wouldn't. 

Knowing Mad idiots are in charge of nuclear things is scary.

Mr Bush bears that fact out

Ronald Reagan, Bush snr and Bush jun. and that's just over the last 30 years.

Yip

Is the North Korean Dictator more reckless and twisted?

Just been reading of the updates and news about this story.

he's paranoid & deluded!

And probably dribbling by now.  It's Junior in charge these days by all accounts.

Like father, like son? 

true... 

eldest son laughed it off to go and do the playboy thing abroad.... (got caught sneaking into Japan's version of Disneyland with a false passport )

can't remember what happened to son no. 2

but all of a sudden son no. 3 is the new poster boy

I wasn't aware he'd had owt to say on Tottenham.  What's his take on Arsenal's annual underachievement at the moment? 

 Another bomb im guessing. 
Change my words, why don't you 

Haha! your sins will always find you out

Bush & Bush

Just shows, you can't always get a nice Bush

Sooo Where is it all heading? 

New series of M*A*S*H

Too old now though Anti...........they wouldn't be able to 'cut it'  

I hate defending the loonier end of the American political spectrum but TBF none of the Bush fambley or Reagan used the big stuff. North Korea exhibits a typical reaction to a crisis of hegemony. One assumes that there is a lot of infighting behind the scenes.

Hegemony is one of my favourite words.


I think China's influence and thoughts will be fascinating in the near future..  And of more import than the US's tbh.

I think that's debatable GJ. Listening to Jeremy Vine today, there are quite a few factions thinking that NK might actually want a unification with SK.  Personally, I think that's a bit way out there. Once a lunatic, always a lunatic until someone gets rid of the lunatic, which is not in the foreseeable future of NK. IMHO.

In other words there is a crisis of hegemony.

Well yes, but isn't that the same all over the place?

Not really, no? 

One hesitates to use examples because every occurrence is individual but there is no doubt that when strong dictatorships collapse they do it on a large scale, be it the USSR or even Matt Busby's Man Utd. The bigger they are the harder they fall etc.

Sorry! With deference to LL.......... In my opinion.

I do think China is the key though.  TBH, they are so powerful, nothing the US or even NATO do in support of S. Korea is going to make a decisive difference.  I do wonder if China like to keep Nth Korea as it presently is as a useful tool in their engagement with the world.  Their own cash means they can exert power in a capitalist world, Nth Korea's single minded lunacy can serve as a reminder of the darker arts.