Who do you trust?

[123everton]

There are unconfirmed reports eminating from South Korea that their naval vessel that sank the other month was NOT caused by a North Korean torpedo but a mine.
"Experts" close to U.S policy said it was, now Russian "experts" have investigated if they find out to the contrary who are we to believe.
The U.S is currently involved in manouvers off the coast of South Korea and has made numerous belicose statements about North Korea, are we being sheparded into another foreign war?

[jake-the-peg]

Sounds like being sheparded out of it.

Sunk by a North Korean Submarine sounds a lot worse than sunk by a Russian mine (almost certainly laid by North Korea)

[bobjugs12]

The Americans do not need to goad the world into a fight with North Korea.

North Korea will destroy themselves in the next few years anyway. They will either implode through revolution, or attack the south in desperation.

[123everton]

The U.S has implicated Norh Korea for sinking a ship with a torpedo (which ordinarily could be classed as an act of war), whereas a defensive mine could be said to have drifted.
Why engage in good old fashioned "gunboat diplomacy" (the mark of empire in the far east) in a volatile situation that could flare up (again) without recourse to any U.N mandates or otherwise as the two sides are still technically at war.

[tamborine]

The US needs stability in the Pacific for it's own safety. Whatever they do is for their welfare and our values.....am with them.

[123everton]

I don't know if I share their values entirely Tambo, I don't know if U.S interests are our shared ambition anymore.
I look at U.S sponsored governments in South America and shudder.
I look at the Vietnam war and wonder why noone was convicted of war crimes.
I look at U.S support for Kosovo (a client state of theirs no less) and wonder where U.S ambition will end or lead to.
North Korea?
South Ossetia?
Abkhazia?
Nagorno Karabakh?
Iran?
Pakistan?
Taiwan?
Tibet?
Thankfully(?) China is America's banker so it could halt U.S ambition within their own territory without firing a shot.