Trump Steps Into North Korea

[anatess2]

This.  This is why I went all out for Trump after his very first foreign policy speech of the campaign even going so far as to fight with several of of my favorite people on this forum.  Do you get it now?

[Guest Mores]

I'm looking at the two guys on the left and wondering:  Who would win?

[NeuroTypical]

My grasp on geopolitics isn't subpar, but it isn't the best either.  My basic opinion about this:  The only reason Trump is meeting 1:1 with a dumpy enemy nation like NK, is because the long string of national policy failures spanning multiple previous administrations, have all but propelled NK to the world stage and all but handed them nukes.   Am I offbase somehow?

[anatess2]

46 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

My grasp on geopolitics isn't subpar, but it isn't the best either.  My basic opinion about this:  The only reason Trump is meeting 1:1 with a dumpy enemy nation like NK, is because the long string of national policy failures spanning multiple previous administrations, have all but propelled NK to the world stage and all but handed them nukes.   Am I offbase somehow?

You're not off in a general sense.

This is just a subset of the entire canvas but it's the most relevant for this occasion:  The US is finally undoing decades (if not centuries) of Chinese economic bullying in the region.   The Chinese uses their military as an economic weapon and uses countries like the DPRK in the same manner.  The US has been treating this with a focus on a military threat doing their warmongering battle cries with their "axis of evil" rhetoric.  Surrounding countries gets crippled by the threat of war in addition to the economic balancing act between these powerful nuclear forces that flexes their muscles while the little peon countries are left jockeying for position for the least "shrapnel hits" or, at least, still have a land mass after the nukes fly let alone have an economy.  So we are left on the sidelines trying to appease one super power or the other trying to build our own economy under these driving forces.  We put up with Chinese drugs pouring into our country, Chinese occupation of Philippine waters, Chinese abuses against our fisherboats, etc. etc. because if we make too much noise, they might tell the Kims to release the kraken...

Trump's foreign policy is unique as it hits the problem straight where it is - economically - and he has the insight to understand that the millenial Jong-un is not like his father and grandfather before him - he doesn't want to be the god emperor of an impoverished country, rather, he wants to be the god emperor of an economic superpower like the RoK and so cutting the DPRK-tail off the Chinese-dog can be done without having to nuke the country... you can, instead, squeeze Chinese trade and offer the DPRK shimmering pots of golden iPhones like their RoK brothers with their fresh and shining kPop and kDrama.

The steps into DPRK by Trump "without his Secret Service" (they were left in the DMZ a few feet away) was symbolic as it proves Trump trusts Jong-un to be sensible as to have no desire to kill the President and forever halt peaceful negotiations and it also proves that Trump acknowledges Jong-un to be the god emperor and completely in command of his people who may be stupid enough to pull a stunt for glory, honor, fame, or at Chinese bidding.  And it also shows China that after the talks at G20, Trump considers it a success and is very comfortable with the direction of the negotiations as to not have any worry at all about Chinese retaliation after Trump takes one powerful Chinese card out of the Chinese deck.

Now, remember... the Clinton campaign rhetoric was that Trump is going to end up putting the US in the middle of a nuclear war.  Instead, we now have Democratic Presidential candidates jockeying to be the first to call out Trump for "legitimizing a dictator".  And that's in addition to their - and the neo-con Republicans' - outcry about Trump letting Iran "get away with aggression against the US" when Trump refused a military strike as a response to Iran downing a drone.  Plus the same outcry when Trump proposed bringing US troops in Syria home... THIS has been your foreign policy for decades and decades regardless of which political party sits on the throne - using your military might for political optics uncaring about how the little countries have to ride the tides of always imminent war.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 1, 2019 by anatess2

[Guest Godless]

5 hours ago, Mores said:

I'm looking at the two guys on the left and wondering:  Who would win?

Whoever's a quicker draw.