Not him.
I don't expect Trump to be rational.
But we won't do anything without the ROK on board (assets based in the ROK have to have their permission to be used, I imagine). Moon isn't going to do that.
The Pentagon has to move stuff around to do anything substantial. It's a very different thing to fly a few bombers from Guam over the ROK than to do a real coordinated attack campaign and be ready for retaliation. The Generals and Admirals will tell Donnie, "sorry, we can't do that".
Etc.
Remember the delays and problems caused by Turkey saying that W couldn't use their bases to attack Iraq. That's just one example.
Get worried when the Pentagon tells China and Japan to keep their ships away from Korea because "the US cannot protect them from possible retaliation" or some such.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
But we won't do anything without the ROK on board (assets based in the ROK have to have their permission to be used, I imagine). Moon isn't going to do that.
The Pentagon has to move stuff around to do anything substantial. It's a very different thing to fly a few bombers from Guam over the ROK than to do a real coordinated attack campaign and be ready for retaliation. The Generals and Admirals will tell Donnie, "sorry, we can't do that".
Etc.
Remember the delays and problems caused by Turkey saying that W couldn't use their bases to attack Iraq. That's just one example.
Get worried when the Pentagon tells China and Japan to keep their ships away from Korea because "the US cannot protect them from possible retaliation" or some such.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.