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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy hunch is tRump pulled out of the meeting w/Kim because he was totally unprepared and would
be a flop in front of a world audience. Then, he started his saber rattling again.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)...OH, yeah you're right, he will never be prepared.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)just a couple of months ago, and other times. That's nuclear! He's who's advising Trump now, along with Hannity, etc., and that is because Trump wants that kind of advice. Many conservatives despise and fear peace treaties as fatally weak. Trump may have preened himself on getting a Nobel like Obama, but his choice of Bolton and withdrawal from the Iran agreements suggests he also despises agreements as the product of weaklings.
While negotiating the summit, Trump, Pence and Bolton and Giuliani are all speaking publicly about forcing NK to allow us to take their nukes, making comparison to Libya, whose leader was eventually overthrown and murdered. They all have to know a big reason Kim wants nukes is to protect himself and his family's regime from just that.
I suspect Trump's yearning to use our military (why do we have it if not to shock and awe the world with our power of destruction?), and very significantly knows war would make a great distraction from his crimes, but that he is timid about actually doing it. Bolton's there to provide some backbone.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and desire to be feared, but I really think he's a coward and is afraid of what comes next. Even though he was surrounded by his people, he was really anxious and defensive, arms tightly crossed, when he was promising to rain fire and fury like the world has never known on NK. Now, HHS's Tom Price looks unfazed at the prospect of murdering innumerable people.
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Thank goodness we have people like Rosenstein dealing with him.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Just a premature victory lap and a stupid commemorative coin.
Statesmanship is an art that takes skill and years of experience.
Trump wouldn't even know where to begin to make a deal.
This isn't some transaction like buying a hotel or laundering
Russian mob money through the bank of Cyprus.
F'n amateurs.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...the two things tRump* really is kind of good at.
malaise
(268,998 posts)but the summit was never going to happen. Kim already met twice with his neighbor Xi. The Con is not the main event here.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Have other people do the negotiating.
Trump is not a negotiator.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)we just NEED HIM. Fuck up on outta here with that bullshit.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Stuart G
(38,427 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)NK did, who would want to meet with our moron.