Will Trump order a strike on NK?

[Santander]

Isolated strikes against North Korea do not solve anything. North Korea is like a landmine on China's doorstep - we need to detonate it in a way that is as damaging to China as possible. Then we need to "strongly guide" South Korea to establish an individualistic, constitutionally Christian, anti-Confucian unified American client state, establishing a beachhead of liberty on China's doorstep. Recognize Taiwan the very next day and provide moral leadership for other free countries to do the same. Then get Japan to repeal the pacifist clauses of their constitution and encourage them to embrace their proud military heritage and greatly expand their offensive capabilities.

The dragon must be slain. Within 10 years, we will reach a point of no return where we will inevitably be resigned to Chinese global hegemony within the next 50 years.

[Santander]

... Then we need to "strongly guide" South Korea to establish an individualistic, constitutionally Christian, anti-Confucian unified American client state, establishing a beachhead of liberty on China's doorstep.

Constitutionally Christian ! ?
Why throw religion in here ? Very strange.
PS: Are you alt-right ? Related to Bannon ?

Korea is a country that has historically ranged from being part of China (Yuan dynasty) to being a client state of China (basically the rest of its existence before the 20th century), and this remains its destiny. Truthfully, North Korea's place in the world as an isolated nation dependent on China is actually more faithful to history than South Korea. This is an oft-unspoken part of the reason why China continues to shield North Korea - they're not merely a buffer state. Using cultural aspects of Christianity to establish a quasi-Western state is the only way to break Korea free from eternal servitude under China.

Imagine a unified, advanced, unapologetically pro-Western Korea, a country that the Chinese people consider to be "little brother", on the frontier of tyranny. China's leaders may be cruel, but they are wise and they pay very high deference to history and culture. They know the danger this would pose to their current regime, and this is why they often make knee-jerk reactions to cultural imports from Korea, while being comparatively lenient on Taiwanese cultural imports or excessively bourgeois domestic cultural products, which are consumed far more by most of the population.

Their leaders are smarter than ours. The only way we can win is if we turn their fears into reality.

[Santander]

They are not stupid, and even though their political system.is draconian, nonetheless it posesses long term strategic strength unavailable to 4 year term western democracies.

So yeah, we need to start getting that part of the world to play ball.

This is correct. Individual liberty is not a high priority in China for its leaders or even its citizens.

China is has sort of its own version of Wilsonianism that has persisted throughout history. While many of us in the West dream of a world of free markets, free speech, and free elections, China has an equally idealistic dream of sharing the beauty and wisdom of Chinese civilization with other, lesser nations. China is not just a country, it's an idea and a symbol - even those who conquer it end up becoming part of it. To them, projecting power into the South China Sea is not an act of aggression, but a stepping stone towards their destiny as the greatest country in the world. I suppose you could even call it an "act of love". They have a fundamentally different understanding of the world than us, and it's not useful to think of them as something comparable to a modern Western nation-state.

If you care about individual liberty, democracy, and a modern Western understanding of human rights, you should want the West to resist China, and for other countries who aspire to the same values to join us.