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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 05:49 PM Jan 2017

In what crises would Drumpf have used nuclear weapons

In light of this revelation:




Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.

"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program


http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-nukes-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-reports.html



what crises would Drumpf have used nuclear weapons:

-The 1960 U 2 incident where Soviets shot down an American spy plane

-The Cuban Missile Crisis where the Soviets placed nuclear equipped missiles in Cuba in 1962

- The North Koreans seize the USS Pueblo in 1968

- In 1979 Iranian students storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take fifty two hostages.


And in what instances going forward do you see Drumpf using nuclear weapons and what will be the fallout beside the obvious one?


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In what crises would Drumpf have used nuclear weapons (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 OP
Any or all of them. Lifelong Protester Jan 2017 #1
Obviously the use of nuclear weapons in those instances were not warranted. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #4
If someone gave a 2 star review OriginalGeek Jan 2017 #2
DU ryan_cats Jan 2017 #7
Any terrorist action against a trump-branded building in the world unblock Jan 2017 #3
All will depend on who or whom Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #5
These responses are not very reassuring. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #6
From what we now know Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #8
When, not if. HassleCat Jan 2017 #9
None of the above. Vinca Jan 2017 #10
I'll Submit Two More for Consideration Best_man23 Jan 2017 #11
911 MFM008 Jan 2017 #12
The year...1964 pipi_k Jan 2017 #13

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
4. Obviously the use of nuclear weapons in those instances were not warranted.
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 05:56 PM
Jan 2017

What would the international and domestic fallout be if he used nuclear weapons in response to less than major provocations?

unblock

(52,272 posts)
3. Any terrorist action against a trump-branded building in the world
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 05:56 PM
Jan 2017

He'll, with this guy, he might use nukes for a perceived personal sleight from 30 years ago.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. From what we now know
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 06:11 PM
Jan 2017

about Trump's Mental makeup,I stand my ground. Second will be the use of our Military to carry out what ever Putin wants him to do.


Hunch say's,this Guy is really dirty and he owes his ass to a Foreign Source. We were Coupe my friends.

Best_man23

(4,900 posts)
11. I'll Submit Two More for Consideration
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 06:22 PM
Jan 2017

- 1990 Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq endangering US oil interests in Saudi Arabia
- 2001 Attacks on Sept 11

I'm worried about his dealing with China, since by all appearances both Putin and he are anti-China by default.
I'm also worried about North Korea, and could see tRump using North Korea as an "example" of what will happen if you cross him.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
13. The year...1964
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 06:27 PM
Jan 2017

His victims....The UK

Upon hearing about a British Invasion, and being the knee-jerk asshole he is, he nukes the entire nation of Great Britain.





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