Fire away.

That's what a Sex in the City education will do for you.

To cool things down that article isn't completely honest. NK didn't promise to retaliate in response to the exercise, they did so "if necessary". It means they're covering their asses for when the inevitable non-response comes. It's just political warfare. The writer has pieced together and sensationalized two bits of articles originally published by Reuters.

While I don't weep for the North Korean leadership, I do like this message. Ultimately the U.S. wants them to submit to the socio-economic system of the west. If push comes to shove both governments know the outcome. NK's response to this reality is; Well, that might be so, but we're still not going to yield, and if you force our hand it will cost you.

This puts the U.S. in a peculiar situation. They know the North are probabaly not going to carry out their threats, but they can't know for sure. NKs nuclear arsenal likely doesn't consist of more than a handful of bombs, if any, but even one of those weapons hitting troops and military installations or metropolitan areas would create a very unfortunate situation to deal with. This secures that the U.S. will thread carefully in their relations to a declared and inferior enemy. It's one of the strongest bids from the North Korean government to attain a sovereign role in world politics and gain fearful respect from the international community. It's a clever strategy.

There is of course a chance this could escalate, but church, family dinner and nuclear war on Sunday is a bit much even for me to imagine.

It's definitely not a normal jet. Contrary to what Michael Bay wants us to believe there are no hidden bat mobile buttons in a Navy Fighter plane. Standard military test operations like missile testing etc. are always reported to the proper authorities beforehand, especially airspace command at the airport they're planning to fly over! "Whoever did this?" wanted this to be a confirmed unofficial event, typically used when a power wants to send some type of message.

The U.S. have been selling tons of sensitive shit to the Chinese for decades. I don't see it beneath their management to unload some flashy cocaine funded black op fifty paygrades above the President type of device in return for some goodwill or whatever.

I wouldn't really say it's in dire straits. It's not optimal, but the U.S. is still the biggest corporation on the planet and nobody is ever going to call the debts on the most dangerous and powerful creature in the cage. The bankers are just doing the usual bullying. Intimidating management and the employees into giving up just a little more power and giving them a little more. As long as the U.S. public stays in line nobody's going to pull any carpets.

As I see it any military "move" beyond the usual stockpiling of tanks and aircraft is not present on anybodys radar right now. While there is a very great need for percieved risk of war there is little if any need for actual war. The public doesn't want it, the politicians are not likely to profit from it and since the advent of nuclear weapons I'd challenge even a jewish banker to balance the books on that kind of destruction.

Given this I think it is more likely to be a move intented for the general public. To gauge reactions, measure statistics or whatever the mindfucks over at the endowed institutes are cooking up these days.

Never going to happen and they both know it. The economic ties are way too tight, and nobody would ever consider war or other malignent acts as viable political options. Everybody, and I mean everybody in both governments are more than happy enough to keep sucking that federal commie banker tit than they are supporting some crazy egotrip al�  Hitler and Alexander. Those days are over. Apart from a few brave characters in the middle east there are no more governments to subdue and supress. Everybody's sold their countries and bought the dream long ago. In the end credit and flat screen tv's became irresistable. All we have now is the West and their confused populations whom still think they live in nation states such as America, Germany or China. And that's the only enemy left to fight.

So government playing with population gets my vote. U.S., China, Russia, The Antarctic Nazi's, don't care which.

No, that's football. Soccer is an american thing and doesn't make any sense at all, just like their american "foot"ball.