Woodward book says Trump nearly declared war on North Korea with proposed tweet
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-woodward-fear-trump-in-the-white-house-people-better-wake-up-to-whats-going-on-in-the-oval-office/
CBS: [...] The most dangerous moment of the standoff, Woodward says, came when the president went to work on another tweet: "He drafts a tweet saying 'We are going to pull out dependents from South Korea ... Family members of the 28,000 people there.'"
That tweet was never sent, because of a back channel message from North Korea that it would regard a pullout of dependents as a sign the U.S. was preparing to attack. "At that moment there was a sense of profound alarm in the Pentagon leadership that, 'My God, one tweet and we have reliable information that the North Koreans are going to read this as an attack is imminent,'" Woodward said.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/09/donald-trump-told-james-mattis-become-natos-rent-collector-bob/
They used to declare war through Congress, Trump nearly did it using Twitter. What a time to nearly die in a nuclear holocaust.
Flashback to 2015/2016 when the idea of Trump declaring war over Twitter was just shitposting.
Owning the liberals by declaring WWIII over Twitter
If it scared fucking Mattis you know shit was serious.
ya no shit this is what we have all been warning our lemming congressmen about.
How long before Congress takes back its authority? Or will the nation's sons and daughters continue to live and die by the word of a single individual?
It's fucked up how the executive has robbed the legislature of its powers. It's no surprise everyone goes nuts over each presidential election - there's simply too much invested in the office.
This is what is so fucking dangerous about a hard-line approach to the NK conflict, in particular with the current commander in chief at the helm. One little mistake is all it takes.
While I agree with the sentiment of your post; this was miles away from a "little mistake. This is the kind of colossal fuck-up that only Trump is capable of.