{"id":262600,"date":"2017-08-13T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=262600"},"modified":"2020-11-22T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T17:15:30","slug":"north-korea-has-learnt-the-brutal-lessons-of-us-regime-change-and-will-not-disarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/north-korea-has-learnt-the-brutal-lessons-of-us-regime-change-and-will-not-disarm\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea has learnt the brutal lessons of US regime change and will not disarm"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Absolutely right! Sadly the US and NATO powers would have nuked Gandhi without any hesitation:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u201cRecent history tells us that the best way to deter\u00a0an attack from the US and its allies is not to disarm, dress up as John Lennon and make statements about how much you desire peace, but to do the exact opposite\u2026 \u2026Recent history though suggests that North Korea, by keeping its fists clenched and continuing to indulge in missile \u2018willy-waving\u2019 is doing absolutely the right thing. The big lesson of the last thirty years is surely that deterrence works. If you\u2019re a \u2018target state\u2019 and can\u2019t deter the warmongers in Washington, you\u2019re in grave danger. Just ask the ghosts of Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Will World War III kick off this week because of the bellicose actions of a buffoonish leader with a dodgy hair-cut and his sinister nuclear-armed warmongering rogue state?\u00a0 Or, can Donald Trump and the US be deterred?<\/p>\n

Of course, in State Department-friendly Western media, it\u2019s North Korea and its leadership who are routinely portrayed as the nut jobs. But you don\u2019t have to carry a torch for the North Korean government or be a card-carrying member of the Kim Jong-un Appreciation Society to acknowledge that the country\u2019s leadership has actually been behaving very rationally. Because recent history tells us that the best way to deter an attack from the US and its allies is not to disarm, dress up as John Lennon and make statements about how much you desire peace, but to do the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

Consider what happened to Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya. Like the DPRK, all three were US \u2018target states\u2019. And all three were destroyed and their leaders killed. Do we honestly think these countries would have been attacked had they possessed nukes or missiles that could reach US targets? Of course not. Detailed analysis of these conflicts shows us that the Empire gets its way through a mixture of bluff followed by the use of military force, but only when it believes the risks are minimal, or non-existent. If it believes the risks are too high, it backs off and starts talking about the need for \u2018dialogue\u2019 and \u2018diplomacy\u2019.<\/p>\n

To understand how the global hegemon acts in the international arena we don\u2019t need to study huge academic textbooks, only remember what happens in the school playground.<\/p>\n

In 1999, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic not only lacked ICBMs, but strong international allies who were prepared to stand by his country in its hour of need. Even though the Russian military were champing at the bit to help their historical Slavic allies in Belgrade, Yeltsin and the ruling elite in Russia were purportedly given financial inducements to stay out. Whether or not that is true, a new IMF loan was conveniently agreed just a week after NATO began its illegal aerial bombing campaign.<\/p>\n

The US only expected military action to last a few days before \u2018Slobo\u2019 would cave in and accept the Western military alliance\u2019s right to occupy mineral-rich Kosovo and have free unhindered access over the whole of Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see this as a long-term operation. I think this is something that is achievable within a relatively short space of time,\u201d boasted Secretary of State Madeline Albright.<\/p>\n

But Slobo and the stoical Serbs did not cave in. As the bombing campaign continued, splits began to emerge in NATO between the hawks, comprised of the US and Britain, and the countries from continental Europe who favored dialogue with Belgrade.<\/p>\n

On April 15, 1999, the Guardian reported that \u201cAmerican officials rejected a six-point German peace plan which included a 24-hour bombing pause, a United Nations peacekeeping force and civilian monitors.\u201d It went on to note how British Prime Minister Tony Blair \u201calso gave the plan a polite cold shoulder.\u201d<\/p>\n

NATO atrocities, such as the killing of 16 civilians in the bombing of Serbian State Television – a clear war crime – and the bombing of a passenger train and a convoy of Kosovan Albanians, were beginning to turn public opinion against the \u2018humanitarian\u2019 operation. With the war not going to plan, it was time once again for the US to make threats. To increase the pressure on Milosevic- the Yugoslav President was indicted as a war criminal, a process I described here.<\/p>\n

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RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Absolutely right! Sadly the US and NATO powers would have nuked Gandhi without any hesitation:\u00a0 \u201cRecent history tells us that the best way to deter\u00a0an attack from the US and its allies is not to disarm, dress up as John Lennon and make statements about how much you desire peace, but to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":284750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}