Enter Trump (Please no!) Failed talks. Blames Obama.
This is very bad news for Drumpfâs ace-in-the-hole as the Mueller probe closes in on him. As @zoran notes, Drumpf will have to upset the talks (and piss off the South Koreans in so doing). But since heâs âlike, a smart personâ this will all work out great. Oy!
Does Trump agree? Who does he send? Is anyone inside the administration qualified? Would anyone outside the administration sign on, knowing the difficulty of dealing with Trump and where the blame falls when Trump screws it up? North Koreaâs talks with the South have strengthened their position - and Pence and Ivanka look petty for ignoring them at the Olympics? And the thing isâŚthese talks are probably more important now than any that have been tried in the past 50 years - because NoKo has the nukes.
It would seem that the âworldâs greatest negotiatorâ might have to do this one himself (hahahahahaha). Howâs it feel to be played by âLittle Rocket Man,â asshole?
Mr. Kim has given the key to continued NK nuclear weapons to the U.S. knowing full well that missile development will simply become the fault of the U.S. when the talks break down over the usual flaming garbage spew from Commander Chaos.
Wasnât hard for rocketman to figure out how to play trump.
Took a little time and money along with throwing a few missiles with a bunch of rhetoric at trump to get him to show his hand.
KIm held kings while the wannabe king held deuces and no wild cards.
Now comes trumps bluff move and he already lost this hand.
Kim keeps nukes, gets paid to keep the doors locked and trump is going to say itâs all because of his genius business mind and the world should just say, Thank You
Note that this is entirely about a moratorium on testing. For all we know, they had a pause scheduled anyway as they worked on the data from the most recent series of tests.
And yeah, we have no one qualified to negotiate with them. So perhaps we refuse talks entirely, because reasons, or perhaps we go in and completely screw things up. Or perhaps we give away the store because whoever is negotiating doesnât know how to read a map or whatâs important about certain named locations.
Welcome to the Liarsâ Club. Just an opportunity to humiliate Trump.
So, brilliant play by the NoKo team: accelerate the nuke program under a weak president, then offer him a desparately needed âwinâ. I expect this to be âsuccessfulâ and Trump to take the credit (not mentioning that the program went intercontinental under him) and some kind of deal to be worked outâŚthan as many times before, reneged, but meanwhile the sanctions are lifted.
"North Korea also made it clear that it would not need to keep its
nuclear weapons if military threats against it are removed and it
receives a credible security guarantee, Chung said."
This is a slam dunk for ANY other administration, I am not sure how, but I am certain Tweety Amin will mess this up. My two cents.
Well he is reportedly looking at John Bolton to replace McMasters as National Security Advisor. We know he would be up for the job. (Note the sarcasm blended with terror in that last statement.)
Ivanka? Eric? Barron?
There will be no talks with the U.S. since Trump insists on denuclearization as a precondition to any negotiation; you canât hold talks on getting rid of your nukes after already agreeing to get rid of your nukes. Kim Jong-un isnât going to forsake his nukes short of a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea; this is him trolling Trump and scoring some diplomatic points along the way.