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UN Ambassador Haley Warns - America's "Done Talking About North Korea..."
30
July, 2017
Just
hours after showing "lethal,
overwhelming force" with
a 'drill' sending two B-1 bombers over the Korean Peninsula, US
ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, appears
to ratcheted up the warmongering to '11' with
her latest tweet...
Done talking about NKorea.China is aware they must act.Japan & SKorea must inc pressure.Not only a US problem.It will req an intl solution.
She
also retweeted a report about the bomber jet drills...
This
latest escalation in rhetoric - getting increasingly close to 'red
line' from the so-called "warmonger
extraordinaire" follows
her comments earlier this month that..."Today
is a dark day - it is a dark day because yesterday's actions by North
Korea made the world a more dangerous place."
That
Haley was even chosen to become part of the Trump Administration has
been odd from the beginning, but as things have unfolded quite
telling. Haley
was a vociferous critic of the future president. She, and the
likes of another war-monger and Russophobe, Lindsey Graham, were
consistently attacking candidate Trump for being “soft” on Russia
and his immigration stance especially his wildly popular border wall
proposal.
To Haley and Graham, Donald Trump was out of step with the Republican
Party’s values such as diversity as represented by Haley who,
herself, is of Indian heritage.
Yet,
despite all of the vitriol heaped at candidate Trump, the newly
elected president, in a surprising and ominous move, decided to make
the South Carolina governor, UN ambassador. This,
and a number of other selections to foreign policy posts, signaled
that President Trump would abandon his promises and vote-garnering
campaign talk of peaceful coexistence with Russia, a reduction of US
presence in the Middle East, and in other hot spots across the globe.
While
Haley has been an ardent warmonger from the start, President Trump
did not have to select her for the post. There were other more
competent and surely less belligerent candidates available.
More than likely, the choice was probably a nod to his “advisor”
daughter Ivanka, to curry favor among feminists.
While
President Trump’s pick of Haley was an implicit betrayal of a large
segment of his base, his
foreign policy actions since becoming chief executive have been an
explicit rejection of putting America first which he spoke of at his
inaugural.
From escalating tensions with puny North Korea, dropping the
mother-of-all-bombs on Afghanistan for no apparent reason, to making
multi-billion dollar armament deals with the despots of Saudi Arabia
among other troubling endeavors, Trump’s foreign policy is little
different than his infamous predecessors.
While
it looks like President Trump may have won the war, at least
temporary, over the press and the anti-Trump Congressional forces
about the fake Russian election involvement, he
and his bellicose UN ambassador are now using the same underhanded
methods to instigate a conflict to depose President Assad.
While the alternative media rightly showed how the mainstream press
and politicos made up and manipulated stories to undermine President
Trump, it should now be intellectually honest and call out the
president and his UN ambassador for what they are doing in Syria. In
doing so, it may prevent the outbreak of WWIII.
In
the Shadow of Pyongyang Missiles, US Touts Success of THAAD Intercept
Test
30
July, 2017
The
US Missile Defense Agency said a medium-range ballistic missile was
successfully intercepted over the Pacific in the early hours of
Sunday morning, in a test of the Pentagon’s Terminal High Altitude
Area Defense (THAAD) System battery in Kodiak, Alaska.
The
test came the same day that two US supersonic B-1 bombers flew
over the Korean Peninsula, following joint military drills
with Japan, in a show-of-force response to North
Korea’s test-fire of what Washington deemed the isolated
nation’s second intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said the missile was a
medium-range ballistic missile, "based on its technical
characteristics."
Meant
as a “stern warning” to Washington, according to North
Korean state media, Friday’s launch aimed for “maximum distance.”
The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim
Jong-un was cited as saying that the test reaffirmed the
country’s ability to range the “entire” US mainland
with its weapons, the Guardian reported.
The
Pentagon denied that the launch posed a threat to North America,
but in a telephone conversation after the test,
representatives from the US and South Korean militaries
discussed “military response options,” according to the
Pentagon.
Sunday’s
THAAD test saw the detection, tracking and interception of a
target missile air-launched from a US Air Force C-17. Soldiers
from the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, stationed at Texas’
Fort Bliss, conducted the operation, in a test that mimicked a
real-world scenario as closely as possible, according to an
MDA statement. The brigade was not made aware of when the target
would be launched.
“In
addition to successfully intercepting the target, the data
collected will allow MDA to enhance the THAAD weapon system, our
modeling and simulation capabilities, and our ability to stay
ahead of the evolving threat,” MDA head Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves
said in the statement, cited by Stars and Stripes.
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