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Among several growing dangers of new wars under the Trump administration, tensions seem to be intensifying most quickly with the one that's also a nuclear power.

Just weeks after the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. nuclear attacks on Hiroshima Nagasaki, Trump confronted North Korea

with some of the most overtly genocidal threats I've ever heard.

North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States, they will be met with fire and fury

like the world has never seen.

And as I said, they will be met with fire, fury, and frankly, power, the likes of which

this world has never seen before.

The United States has great strength and patience.

But if it is forced to defend itself for its allies, we will have no choice but to totally

destroy North Korea.

Trump has doubled down on the ruthlessness of the official White House statement with several unhinged tweets, threatening nuclear annihilation.

In one, saying his nuclear button is, quote, much bigger and more powerful than Kim John Unz.

The Trump cabinet has even drafted war plans plotting a first

strike against North Korea's nuclear sites. The threats have escalated alongside other modes of attack,

including harsh new sanctions on the Korean economy. Despite the immense gravity of a U.S. war drive

on the peninsula, Trump has seen little resistance from the self-appointed

resistance led by the Democratic Party.

But the bipartisan support for attacking a sovereign nation only exists among those privileged

elites who will profit from such a war.

The people of the United States, despite being bombarded with fear-mongering propaganda, think much differently than the millionaires who supposedly represent them.

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