As long as the US Empire can be funded and maintained on the backs of its taxpaying public, the chance of a de-escalation of tensions not only on the Korean peninsula, but throughout the world are practically nil. And, as long as the nation’s current interventionist ideology holds sway, it will only be through a financial meltdown that the US’s role as global policeman will come to a much-needed end. The most recent example of the world’s biggest bully escalating matters is its on-again, off-again badgering of North Korea.
