Watching Rachel Maddow note similarities between North Korea’s war mongering leader Kim Jong-un and America’s war-mongering leader Don Trump.
Now, assuming he may well soon be scrambling for something to distract us from Robert Mueller’s Grand Jury investigation into possible collusion with Putin and the Russians [not to mention his tax returns], I can’t help but wonder [ominously] if perhaps one day soon he might get out of bed and order an invasion of North Korea. Unleashing a shock and awe military campaign “the likes of which the world has never seen.”
Leaving aside [for now] the “is/ought” aspects of this – is it the right thing to do? is it justified? – I’m more interested in zeroing in on the “either/or” part.
In other words, would it really be that easy? As Commander in Chief, can he literally just pick up the phone one day and order this attack?
Or, instead, are there safe-guards/procedures in place such that it can be slowed down — enough to at least generate reaction from the rest of us?