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a couple of weeks ago president trump said an armada.... which included the u.s. carrier carl vinsons battle group... as well as other nuclear submarines (plural)... many times
 more powerful than the aricraft carrier.... was headed towards to korean waters to both monitor and counter... if necessary.... any north korean violation of u.n nuclear arms
 agreements .... and to show that the era of stategic patience.... as his administration called it.... with the rogue nation was over..... ...

then.... a few days ago the u.s. news media discovered that the carl vinson battle group had not gone directly towards north korea but had instead moved toward australia
 to take part in a planned but very secretive military excercise.... ... as usual the u.s. media went ape..... screaming about how the vinson was not where trump said it was
going to be.... claiming president trump had lied.....  and even declaring the statement about an armada was not true....which caused north korea to start demonstrating 
and chanting.. along with the u.s. news media... that presidents trumps statements had been nothing but a bluff  ....

then....... ..... the uss michigan.... a strategic ballistic missle submarine.... which just happens to be one of the u.s. subs fitted with a navy seal delivery vehicle... surfaced
 and docked in busan south korea..... ... and the u.s. news media still doesn;t seem to get it...... ......but i wonder if the north koreans get it yet?..... ....

either way.... several things could have been learned from the events of this past few weeks..... obvious to anyone who knows a thing or two about our military and who 
was also paying attention.....


#1 ...the u.s. news media does not seem to understand that an "armada" can consist of both surface ships and also submarines...  which are under the water..... ....

#2 ... if they did uderstand it.... then they either paid no attention to what president trump really said.... or else intentionally made up their own story about it......

#3 ...north korea does not have the kind of military intelligence that could have detected where the carl vinson really was.... and certainly had no clue where the michigan was
.... or where other u.s. subs might be at this very moment.... ...in other words they have no satellites in the air with that capability...... (meaning they also lack the kind of sattelites
 necessary to accurately guide the kinds of nuclear missles they continually boast about and verbally theaten the world with...)

#4 ... nobody who does have sattelites.... or that kind of military intelligence capability.... including nations who historically have been north koreas best friends... told them..... 
....nations who knew.... like china.... and most likely russia..... said nothing...... 

#5 ...north korea only became aware of the movements of the carl vinson and the docking of the uss michigan when the u.s. news media told them... by way of broadcasting 
everything they know ... and even some things they don;t know..... to the rest of the world... .. .....like they always do..... 

#6 ... at present.... the u.s. news media seems to be the only friends the north koreans have....... 

.............. but i wonder...... are they paying attention yet?............. 

and as if anyone needed more proof of the news media bias and selective/fake news
 reporting.... .... who can forget that the where abouts of the uss. carl vinson was all 
over the news a few weeks ago.... even fox news shepard smith picked it up to help 
cnn and msnbc mock trump over it.... .. .... but has anyone seen a news report on the 
fact there are now 2 complete u.s. carrier battle groups in the sea of japan off the 
coast of north korea... with another 3rd carrier battle group on the way?... an amphibious
 assault carrier of the japanese navy and it;s battle group are operating with them....  

historians and military experts say this is the most powerful concentration of naval forces
 ever assembled in one place..... even without the 3rd carrier which has not arrived yet the
 combined firepower of this very real armada has never been equalled before in history.... ...

 ... but there is not a single squeek in the u.s. news media about it... ... not even on the over 
glamourized and much ballyhooed fair and balanced network of fox.... ...it seems it just can;t
 compete with stories about the fired fbi attention hog j edgar comey... ... who by the way...
. held a position that historically was never supposed to be in the limelight in the first place..... 

I wonder if the death of Otto Warmbier will affect our policy toward North Korea. Frankly, I question why the Warmbier family rejected an autopsy. As a mother, I totally understand that they might not want to further violate their son's body. But as an American citizen, I think it might be beneficial to determine the exact cause of their son's death so that we can move forward IN TRUTH with that rogue country. Might it be that our government doesn't really want to know? Perhaps leaving his cause of death a mystery helps us in "back door diplomacy". Time might tell...