On this day, 1945, the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, instantly killing about 40,000 people, having dropped the world's first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima three days earlier. The horror has lived on in everybody's minds and hearts.
Yet yesterday, Donald
Trump threatened N. Korea with "fire and fury" over its nuclear
capacity and its own threat to destroy the US. The world watches, tense, as
this out of control, intellectually challenged man, unleashes his ego, too
narcissistic to understand the consequences and how close he's pushing the whole
world towards nuclear confrontation.
When asked what the
government was going to do about N. Korea a short while ago, he said vacuously,
"We'll manage it, we'll manage it." He wouldn't take any more
questions on the subject. Because he didn't have a clue.
It's been 201 days of this inept, dysfunctional American president with severe personality
disorders, living in a private bubble utterly detached from reality. Surrounded
by bottom-feeders and acolytes, scrabbling for power like a bunch of starving
hyenas attacking a bloody carcass, snarling and tearing at each other. The
leader of the free world isolating America from international trade, separating
it from the free and the just.
An ultra conservative
government, largely driven by Evangelical Christian 'principles', dragging the
most powerful democracy back into pre Civil Rights days wherever it can, back
into discrimination, unfair treatment, bigotry, sexism and xenophobia. A
climate change denier in charge of the environment.
The list goes on.
It's endless now. Over 200 days of human rights violations, scandals,
vulgarities, lies, corrupted souls,
hiring and firing at the whim of a sick man addicted to himself and his
TV enablers. Furiously trying to cover his Russian connection tracks and losing
the battle fast. Swamped by the relentless push of 5 major investigations. Desperately trying to distract, failing abysmally.
Hemorrhaging
popularity and trust, even in his ever dwindling base. The whole world worrying
about how he'll cope with a real, international disaster. And now it's about to
happen, only he's the author of it.
Nuclear
confrontation has suddenly and by degrees become a reality for all of us, as
the sick man with tiny fingers recklessly provokes the world's most frightening
sociopath, Who, it turns out, has the capacity to target the US with intercontinental
ballistic missiles that have miniaturized nuclear warheads attached. It's alarming
how so many military analysts are saying that Kim Jong-un isn't insane, he's
strategic, he knows what he's doing, and he's homicidal but not suicidal.
He's just
saber-rattling, saying that he'll destroy America. The only way to deal with
him is to push back, show him that America means business. Threaten to annihilate
N. Korea. He'll buckle. He knows that a full-on US attack will destroy his
country. He doesn't want that. He just wants to be safe, he wants a deterrent,
and to be treated like one of the big guys at the table.
They were wrong about
how developed N. Korea's nuclear capacity is. The Washington
Post reveal surprised everybody. Anything from 25 to 60 missiles that could
reach the west coast of the US and possibly even New York. But they're not wrong about Kim Jong-un?
The worry is that these military analysts are still burying their heads in the sand. The problem with
sociopaths is that they don't function the way most of us do. They don't have a
stabilizing component in their brains. They can be supremely logical, sure; but
their wires are crossed, and their rationale for behaving anti-socially makes
sense to them. We have a prime example in Donald Trump.
Watching Kim Jong-un
survey his gigantic weapons displays, and his mechanized,
mind-vacated, supremely controllable puppet troops and citizens, it doesn't take a
genius to see orgasmic satisfaction that is insane. Out of control. Push him
too far with threats and there's no guarantee that he won't lose it and push
back with an attack because it will give him an orgasm. It'll be too late then, as American cities burn à la
Nagasaki and Hiroshima, to say, Damn! We were
wrong.
