I just don't get why people trust what Trump is saying. I have little doubt Trump and Putin have arranged this dance.

with Drumpf about their plans. I agree this is a choreographed show as far a Drumpf and Vlad are concerned. Drumpf will fire missiles. Putin will claim to have shot them down. Drumpf will say something stupid like "nuh-uh" and we will go back to talking about Stormy Daniels and Donald's wee wee. The U.S. will be out millions for a fireworks show in the desert.

Don't you know that is bad for business?

upside down and right side up!!!!!! lol.

In the end, the worst that will happen is that another empty Syrian airbase gets bombed. No one should buy any of this.

It could be, but the rhetoric has increased by magnitudes.

I think that was by far worse. One exception Kennedy and Khrushchev were not nuts.

1. The Cubans had independent launch capability, and Castro said years later that if we'd gone in with a full-scale invasion, he would have launched.

2. US bombers routinely flew past their fail-safe points throughout the Crisis.

3. A test tape mistakenly running on a SAC computer showed a launch from Cuba with impact near Tampa.

4. PAL (Permissive Action Lock) systems - essentially, multi-stage launch safeguards - were not in place for the first Minuteman wings that had just come on line.

5. Two of three launch officers on board the B-59, a Soviet sub, agreed to fire a nuclear torpedo after US sailors dropped practice depth charges (about the size of a grenade) to warn the sub away from the blockade line. Luckily, all three launch officers had to concur.

6. Responding to a U2 overflight of the Soviet Far East, the USSR scrambled fighters from Wrangel island; USAF responded with F-102s armed with nuclear air-to-air missiles.

And that's not all. We came much, much closer than was generally known at the time.

No, no way.

There would be national alerts and recalls for all armed forces personnel, fleets putting to sea, aircraft staging to bases around the world, mobilization of regular and (potentially) reserve units.

It would be the only story on the news if it happened.

during the gulf war.

But if you look at the timeline it doesn't quite show that. I fully understand that at that time it could have dipped lower than 2 though.
Thanks,
Eko

don't let the false bravado and heated words fool you, they are the same team, doing all this for show

All Trump is missing is an upcoming tweet with the time, place and target of the missile strikes so his buddies overseas are thoroughly warned about upcoming kabuki.