So howâs Donnie gonna screw this up?
Kimâs comments, however, with their conditional tone, seemed to hold out the possibility that friction could ease if the United States made some sort of gesture that Pyongyang considered a move to back away from previous âextremely dangerous reckless actions.â
Oh well fuck that with Donald âin chargeâ.
Let me count the ways!
LOL! Was thinking the same. Huge - and Bigly diplomatic foreign affairs âvictoryâ for Trump adm if they could bring Lilâ Kim to the negotiating table.
But then it would be all about Lilâ Kim. Canât have that! Personal insults to begin soon.
My exact reactionâŚthis is temporary until donnieâs next NK tweet.
HmmmâŚI think Donnie will try to claim that this is happening because he played the strongman last week. Of course, that very claim could sour the whole thingâŚconsidering the two egos.
The last thing we need is Lilâ Don being emboldened to further fire and fury in his dealings with Lilâ KimâŚor anyone else for that matter.
This is good news in a couple ways. First, the obvious one is that we are backing away from the precipice. But secondly, it proves something that we all suspected to be true, namely that Kim Jong Un might be crazy but he is not STUPID.
Maybe he realizes there is truly a crazy fuck in the White House or maybe he doesnât, either way it doesnât really matter as we just moved in the direction of de-escalation.
Still a perilous situation, given mad king Donaldâs disposition, but there is some room for hope. Letâs keep our fingers crossed!
Problem is itâs not just Trump. If Trump stopped tweeting today for the rest of his presidency, this would still be a disaster waiting to happen. They slashed the budgets at the State department, key people have resigned and new people with no experience are brought in, and they havenât filled like +90% of the positions!
Here is the thing about NK. You donât negotiate with terrorists. What are we going to do, say now you have nuclear weapons so weâll acquiesce to your demands? No. You have to have a coalition of countries ready to stand together against the threat. You negotiate with a state like China to increase their pressure on NK to stand down. Instead, Trump has spent the past 2 years burning bridges and alienating us on the world stage with our allies.
Thatâs why you need a State department. But mister, I dodged the draft, have no respect for military members and now I want to âplay at warâ could never understand that.
North Korea has not engaged in any terrorist activities. Kim is evil and the system rotten, but using the term terrorism is nonsense. North Korea has not invaded another country or did I miss that? Read University of Chicago historianâs Bruce Cumingsâ eye-opening book, The Korean War ,to learn how it was essentially a dress rehearsal for Vietnam.So, in fact, we would not be negotiating with terrorists, but a country thatâs nuclear program is designed for only one reason: regime insurance against actions the US might contemplate. I donât actually think we are or have in a while, but what were we doing there ever once the Japanese were defeated? We brought in Rhee from the US where he had lived since 1912 (yes, 1912) to be the new leader. The other leaders were all collaborators with Japanese colonialism. We created two Koreas. The Koreans were not consulted. Itâs not the Korean military that does exercises off the coast of the US. Korea wants, above all, a formal end to the Korean War, a guarantee of no attempts to change its awful regime by US (the South Koreans long ago gave up that desire), and integration into the world economyâŚno sanctions. Iâm not sure they even want aid. There is no threat from North Korea unless we attack them. They are holding South Korea hostage if that happens and the South Koreans are more worried about us than the North spontaneously attacking them. Same with the Japanese.
If KJU backed down and agreed to a deal âŚTrump would say "see, I told you not to mess with us or weâll kick your fucking asses, you better back down pussy!!!â
And weâd be back to square one.
Guam GovernorÂŽ: So sad!! I will never be famous. I wish Trump was not such a good negotiator.