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just a speculation, but truly scary: I now read from several sources the US might 'preempt with Tomahawks' North Korea this weekend ... OK links ... for example Breaking News at gazeta.ru right now (
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in a certain Thread Jan 9, 2017
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the ISIL defense tactics is simple:
while keeping ISIL losses as low as possible, inflicting as heavy losses as possible to the Iraqis storming Mosul, so VBIEDs are optimal; of course there's a problem of attrition

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and ISIL assumption is it'll be Iraqi units still willing to fight

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who will get attrited ... recently the Iraqis suffer around 200 KIAs daily this way ...
which I then repeated Mar 20, 2017
and now noticed (in Russian Internet:
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) ISIL had claimed 9100 KIA of Iraqi Army and Military Police (plus unspecified number of Vigilantes) during the first six months of the Mosul Campaign, which makes me wonder about the fate of
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just a speculation, but truly scary: I now read from several sources the US might 'preempt with Tomahawks' North Korea this weekend ... OK links ... for example Breaking News at gazeta.ru right now (
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The amusing part of this post is the naivety in believing that Tomahawks are the answer to neutralizing NK. That and quoting NBC.
 
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I guess this is related:
No winners if war breaks out on Korean Peninsula: China
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Xinhua | Updated: 2017-04-14 19:40
Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday warned that no one would win if there was war on the Korean Peninsula, advising against anything that could escalate the situation.

"We urge all parties to refrain from inflammatory or threatening statements or deeds to prevent irreversible damage to the situation on the Korean Peninsula," Wang said when meeting with the press following talks with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.

"There has been heightened tension between the United States, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). This precarious situation deserves our attention and concern," Wang said.

China has always opposed any rhetoric or actions that could escalate tensions and, as history has shown us, dialogue has proved to be the only solution, he said.

"On the Korean Peninsula issue, it is not the one who espouses hasher rhetoric or raises a bigger fist that will win," Wang said.

"If war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, multiple parties will lose and no one will win," Wang stressed.

The foreign minister underscored that the calls for the resumption of dialogue and negotiation are the very opportunities that China has worked hard to find and should all parties grasp them.

China is willing to present a feasible and detailed plan about the "dual-track approach" and "suspension for suspension" and is open to all helpful advice, Wang said.

"The resumption of talks can be flexible. China supports all kinds of dialogue, regardless of if it is formal or informal, about denuclearization or peace mechanism, or involves two, three or four parties," he said.

China has proposed a "dual-track approach" to denuclearize the Peninsula and establish a peace mechanism as well as "suspension for suspension", which would defuse the looming crisis there.

"As a first step, the DPRK may suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the suspension of large-scale U.S.-ROK military exercises," Wang said at a press conference last month.

The United States has sent the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to waters near the Korean Peninsula in what it called a "reaction to provocations" from recent missile tests.

Asked to comment on media reports that the DPRK is prepared to test launch more missiles, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said China was following the developments and that UN resolutions demand the DPRK abandon all the nuclear programs.
 
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