Games and War Games

"What is the outcome going to be? Unknown. I am betting on this however. Should the games take place, with or without the two super powers, 'rocket man' will not remain silent." 

Well, well, well. This has to be a first. A sovereign country is going to hold the winter games while a neighboring country is threatening nuclear annihilation on them and some who will participate. This has to be a joke, right? Why would the Olympic committee select a country so close to a lunatic who hates them. A lunatic who threatens to nuke just about every country who has electricity? With the Olympics only two months away, and with the Norks now having a missile which can travel 8,000 miles, what could possibly go wrong? Everything.

First off, we have decided to do some muscle posing for the Norks. Currently, we are having joint air exercises with South Korea. One of the biggest show of force we were going to show the Norks were two B1-b Lancer bombers flying (with a ton of F-35 escorts) out of Anderson AFB, and over the Korean Peninsula. Whoops - there was only one B1-b that made it. The other one was stuck on the tarmac back in Guam with mechanical issues. Thanks for nothing Obama! 

If these Olympics happen at all this next February, it is going to be a miracle. First off, the Russian team just got the boot. Why? Alleged doping during the last Olympics. Too bad - every four years they offer quite a bit of the competition at the winter games. Of course, now the Russian team does not have to worry about getting nuked or blown up by North Korean artillery during the games (one of the venues in the games is only 40 miles from the DMZ).

UN Ambassador Nicky Haley was asked this week about our participation in the Olympics. She sounded very squishy at best. It sounds like there is a chance (due to the Geo-political climate over there), we might take a pass on the games. What? No Russia nor USA? What does that leave for competition? The bobsled team from Jamaica?

It has also been reported on the news that ticket sales are sluggish. Also many members of the NBC broadcasting team are reticent about traveling to what might become a war zone. It seems that between the bluster of the "rocket man" and the massive war gaming in the south, many in NBC feel this trip would be akin to traveling to Hawaii in early December 1941. 

What is the outcome going to be? Unknown. I am betting on this however. Should the games take place, with or without the two super powers, "rocket man" will not remain silent. How do I know this? That is his MO. He will use this venue to make some kind of statement. Hopefully his statement will only be bluster and nothing else. However, with this regime - who knows...