• dmonzel@lemm.ee
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    “These flyovers, air demonstrations and static displays, including the landing for the B-52 on the peninsula, are part of our continued pledge to promote peace, stability and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula,” U.S. 7th Air Force spokeswoman Maj. Rachel Buitrago said in a statement released by U.S. Forces Korea.

    Ah yes, nothing says “pledge to promote peace” like flying a nuclear-capable bomber as a show of force.

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        What DPRK is doing when it builds nukes and demonstrates its rocketry capabilities is a deterrence. What the US does when it nukes Japanese citizens, takes over the Japanese imperial colony of Korea, drops more bombs on the DPRK than almost any country in the history of war, and then flies a nuclear-capable plane to that colony from the other side of the world is not a deterrent - it’s force projection, a threat, and a reminder that it is still violently in occupation of Korea.

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        Moving Soviet missiles to Cuba was a deterrence and that almost triggered a nuclear war.

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            For the USSR, it was a response to the missiles in Turkey. But Cuba wanted those missiles there also as a deterrence to not have a repeat of the bay of pigs invasion.

            In that case it was both.

  • magnetosphere @beehaw.org
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    I didn’t realize a B-52 had never landed in South Korea before. I would have assumed it had already happened enough times to be completely unremarkable.

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      Same. I guess they usually stay at Okinawa, or taiwan or maybe the Phillipines.