Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea?
Hyperlon@lemmy.world 1 month agoWhy do you think the situation can only get worse given more time?
Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea?
Hyperlon@lemmy.world 1 month agoWhy do you think the situation can only get worse given more time?
sith@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I don’t think so. Probably not, but I’m really not sure. It’s a classical argument when starting a war (Germany/WW1 and Japan/WW2), that’s why I brought it up.
I.e. if you believe there is a very high risk for war at SOME point, then you probably want to take control of the situation and start the war at a time and place of your choice. If you can destroy 90% of NKs ICMBs (or other kinds of carriers) today, it’s better to start the war now, if the new technology will bring that number down to say 50% by tomorrow.
The conspiracy theorist in me says that it’s not impossible that the recent coup attempt in SK was somehow related to this kind of thinking. This is how the military tend to reason after all.
Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 month ago
War is very seldom inevitable. We tend not to focus much attention on wars that never started, because that does not make for very engaging history content. It happens far more frequently than a war actually starting though.
sith@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
True!