{"id":25164,"date":"2017-09-03T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T23:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25164"},"modified":"2017-09-03T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T23:38:18","slug":"trump-commits-to-using-nuclear-capabilities-to-defend-us-terroritory-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25164","title":{"rendered":"Trump Commits To Using &#8220;Nuclear Capabilities&#8221; To Defend US Terroritory, Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-09-03\/trump-commits-using-nuclear-capabilities-defense-us-terroritory-allies\">Trump Commits To Using &#8220;Nuclear Capabilities&#8221; To Defend US Terroritory, Allies<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-602817 ads-injected\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>In what we believe is a significant escalation and potentially a hint as to the president&#8217;s thinking, President Trump said during a phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the US remains committed to defending its territories and allies using all &#8220;diplomatic, conventional and &#8211; here&#8217;s the big one &#8211; nuclear &#8211; capabilities at our disposal.&#8221; This is the first time Trump has explicitly referenced possible involvement of nuclear weapons in a US response to its isolated antagonist, and also means that the two world leaders discussed the possibility of a nuclear response.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>TRUMP REAFFIRMS U.S. COMMITMENT TO DEFEND THE U.S. &amp; ALLIES USING FULL RANGE OF DIPLOMATIC, CONVENTIONAL AND NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES: STATEMENT<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The White House released a statement about what the two leaders discussed on the call. It\u2019s available in full below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p class=\"excl\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN: White House issues statement on call between President Trump and Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pc7w3v42y4\">pic.twitter.com\/pc7w3v42y4<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"excl\">\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/904465749862961152\">September 3, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The call was held to discuss how the two countries should respond to North Korea&#8217;s sixth nuclear test \u2013 and possibly its first successful test of a hydrogen bomb. The test came after multiple provocations from the North over the past week, including two missile tests. Earlier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-09-03\/mattis-we-have-many-options-achieve-total-annihilation-north-korea\">Defense Secretary James Mattis,<\/a> using the couched language of international diplomacy, said any threat to the US or its territories would be met with a \u201c<strong>massive military response<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full White House statement on the 6th North Korean nuclear test, as delivered by Mattis shortly after 3pm ET, is below:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Commits To Using &#8220;Nuclear Capabilities&#8221; To Defend US Terroritory, Allies In what we believe is a significant escalation and potentially a hint as to the president&#8217;s thinking, President Trump said during a phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the US remains committed to defending its territories and allies using all &#8220;diplomatic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7844,452,2006,2583,2189,877],"class_list":["post-25164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-japan","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-shinzo-abe","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25165,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25164\/revisions\/25165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}