The summit was just a little propaganda film.
Because the threat of war with North Korea is entirely a function of Trump's desire to start a war with North Korea, it seems to me that we should value this deal exactly as much as we value Trump's word.
He didn't have to go over there and make a propaganda film for the dictatorship, he didn't have to pose for pictures. All he had to do was not start a war. All the rest of this is superfluous at best, and will be retrospectively ridiculous the second Trump reneges on his word like he always does.
Obama's overtures to Cuba and Iran were examples of a president substantively de-escalating unnecessarily acrimonious situations, and he kept his word.
This is nothing but puffery toward a situation that was acrimonious primarily because Trump himself had made it that way, there are no substantive steps toward lasting peace, and nobody in their right mind expects either one of these people to actually hold up any side of this.
Ask Dennis Rotman about who know how to honor their name by keeping their word. I examine both sides of the story and make my own mind by using critical thinking, in other words I don't allow anyone to tell me how to think. Thank you for sharing the other side of the story.
You had me up until the part where Obama some how did better....🎓🎓🎓
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Destroying the Iran deal didn't help much either.
Well Koreans, how do you feel about Trump?
Hold up, Donald Trump started the Korean war 70 years ago?
No, but his twitter threats about nuclear warfare escalated the situation to the point where a meeting like this became necessary.
So Trump achieved exactly what he wanted to achieve with those crazy twitter threats? Funny how that works.
It depends on what Trump's goal was in the first place. I don't think he planned that far ahead.
Threatening to preemptively use nuclear weapons on a country that is obviously weaker is a serious problem. If this works out and peace is achieved, then history will probably say it was worth it. If this leads to war, it will be seen as escalatory rhetoric. It's too early to tell.
Trump has been saying for a while that he wanted to meet with Kim. This is all part of Trump's plan as were the threats to cancel the meeting. It's just old fashioned negotiation tricks that Trump is very open about employing. The funny part is how well it works. An essential part of Trumps strategy is for whoever he is dealing with to think just what you do, that he is stupid and crazy and has no idea what he is doing and that he might just launch a preemptive nuclear strike. That gives him the upper hand in negotiations.
Of course, no one except maybe Trump and his base think this is a step towards peace. It may actually be a step closer to war. If North Korea breaks the deal, some people in the Trump administration (Bolton or Pence) may use it as a justification for a preemptive strike.
The comment about the Iran deal is also correct. This sends a message that the US won't give adversarial countries a favorable deal unless they already have nuclear weapons.
I think the most amusing fact was that Dennis Rodman came too lol.