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This is not the ‘Barking dog” you were hoping for… is it?

2017/09/23

When ‘Barking Dogs‘ bite

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. – Isoroku Yamamoto

On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”

 Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945 Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945

Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 1945.  Image: Atomic Heritage Foundation

Hiroshima

Effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. View from the top of the Red Cross Hospital looking northwest. Frame buildings recently erected. 1945. work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.


The fall of Nazi Germany, Image: The Atlantic

Nuremberg, Germany in June of 1945. The fall of Nazi Germany, Image: The Atlantic

The fall of Nazi Germany

Dresden, Germany after the allied bombings between February 13 and 15, 1945. The fall of Nazi Germany, Image: The Atlantic

The fall of Nazi Germany, Image: The Atlantic

Cologne, Germany, April 24, 1945. The fall of Nazi Germany, Image: The Atlantic

That was then.

“Mass delusion is an important tool of oppressors because they can’t survive free expression.”

Now, Transference much?  North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, had accused Trump of being “a mentally deranged person full of megalomania” who is holding “the nuclear button.” Sounds as though he may have been watching “fake news” and talking to America’s Democratic People’s Representatives. 

The real deal is the United States has had a cease fire with North Korea since 1953. Yet, North Korea has broken it numerous times and continues to do so; most recently by launching rockets that are capable of housing nuclear payloads and then threatening Guam, Japan, the U.S. and the rest of the globe with them.

The moral of the story …

“It’s best to let sleeping dogs lie.”

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