So the 400 lb guy sitting on his bed that Trump referred to as hacking the election could be Kim Jong-Un?
He will, he will, give it time…
O/T David Frum on Twitter went on a pretty funny screed trolling Trump’s Easter Tweets. Starts with this tweet.
[ From Davie Frum’s twitter feed][1]
Oh great.
If North Korea’s bots ever come to life on Twitter, it’ll make Putin’s pale in comparison. All of Twitter will be a bot flame war.
North Korea is more likely to present a “cyber threat” than a “kinetic” one.
Unfortunately, our own Commander-in-Thief is both.
Like Chauncey Gardiner, but without the real-world experience.
And with launch codes.
If North Korea wanted to launch a cyber-attack, they would. Just look what they did when they got pissed off about a movie. I think they want Trump to make one of his quite likely mistakes and use it as an excuse to get all kinds of kinetic.
Twittering is not a “cyber threat”, it is just posturing…
One of the failings of this administration is that they either can’t or won’t shut up. Why was it necessary to say this, other than to ratchet the saver-rattling up just one more notch?
Because of the bufoon Trump is, he’s likely to undue much of the progress we’ve made against North Korea:
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea’s missile program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in their opening seconds.
Soon a large number of the North’s military rockets began to explode, veer off course, disintegrate in midair and plunge into the sea. Advocates of such efforts say they believe that targeted attacks have given American antimissile defenses a new edge and delayed by several years the day when North Korea will be able to threaten American cities with nuclear weapons launched atop intercontinental ballistic missiles
Is this what Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Security Advisor Cuck Kushner has told the military junta that is Preshitident Trump’s cabinet to say on Sunday television?
Good thread…thanks. Point about China gaming Trump’s idiocy is exactly right. Only way China would be an ally against NK is if we bombed China every time NK acts up.
Not a kinetic threat? I wonder if that’s how our troops in S. Korea, Japan, and on Navy ships in the area see the threat?
. I don’t know, unless you disagree with me, wouldn’t it be better if we were going to go after Mosul to not say anything and do it, as opposed to announcing—they’re announcing all over television they’re planning to attack Mosul.
Sounds kinda …familiar, doesn’t it?
AND
What is the US going to do as a cyber threat? Preemptively release Sony’s emails?