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Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com)
President Donald Trump has cancelled his much anticipated meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that was scheduled to take place in Singapore on June 12, he announced moments ago. In a letter to Kim, the president said; "I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger an open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter to serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place." He added, "You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used."
BINGO! I win my Donald Trump bingo.
Pulls out of Paris. Messes up with Iran. Get's his ass handed to him by Russians in Syria. NK summit fails... that completes my line across the middle.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
If the threat of imminent death due to nuclear war doesn't trigger your "things I care about" alarm, then you are a special kind of nerd. Maybe rephrasing of the headline would help:
"Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. Major ISPs In The USA At Risk Due To Nuclear Bombardment."
Does that help?
"I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger an open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter to serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place."
This part was written in a calm but stern manner.
What we get then is
"You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used."
This is written with how we know he writes. So I think that he indeed added this as he did not understand that the first part already said the same thing, but in a much more diplomatic wording.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
What else exactly does Trump think he's going to get? The North Koreans already offered unilateral nuclear disarmament and negotiations on reunification with South Korea. That's basically everything that matters.
Spin this as him being smart all you want, but in reality it's him throwing away the best chance at peace on the Korean peninsula in history because his ego is so big that he couldn't deal with the North Koreans legitimately pointing out that telling them Kim Jong Un would end up dead like Gaddaffi isn't a smart move.
Right now the whole world sees the North Koreans having said all the right things, and made all the right moves, and the Americans saying all the stupid things, and making all the wrong moves. The fact is, even if this was just a political game or a negotiating tactic, American has already lost as it's now the country that blew it with North Korean peace talks.
"Trump wants to play emperor then he gets to take responsibility for what happens on his watch too. Not just the bits he likes"
"The buck stops here" sign has a quite different meaning when it's on Trump's desk
#TrumpIsNotTruman
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Which one?
there are multiple things which are referred to as "the Libya model".
The model where a regime voluntarily surrenders it's nuclear weapons program and other WMDs and 5 years later we sponsor a coup where its leader winds up dead. Un is a ruthless dictator, but he is not "crazy". He's a rational actor. All he has to do is look at Libya and Iraq to conclude he'd have to be suicidal to trust the US.
All he has to do is look at Libya and Iraq to conclude he'd have to be suicidal to trust the US.
We've already demonstrated that our country won't honor our President's promises longer than his term. With DJT, promises don't seem to last that long. I hear we'll see his taxes if he gets the nomination.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Don't forget that John Bolton is there now, too. The White House is full of dangerous, hypocritical lunatics. It's worse than under George W. Bush, and he had mighty bad advisers.
I don't think it's amateur hour, I think the men inside the White House want a war with North Korea. And they're doing everything in their power to get one and fuck everyone else. So how's that hope and change comin' again ?
The US likely cannot get everything it wants. That's not how negotiations usually work. There will have to be compromise. Same with the Iran deal. Compromise is usually better than nothing. T seems to be of the mindset: "give me ALL or I'll throw a tantrum and insult you endlessly on Twitter."
Table-ized A.I.
If we survive (and I think we have a decent chance), we might actually look on this as a positive turning point.
Europeans have, for various historical reasons, been unwilling to stand up the United States for the past 70 years. Sometimes they've tut-tutted loudly, but in general they've let the US get away with whatever they wanted. Now it's become abundantly clear that you can't give anybody a free pass that way.
During the Bush II years there was already rumbling, mostly centered around Iraq. Then Obama came, and he made the US seem sane again. Now the world's only superpower has gone completely insane.
Democracy is a great thing, but it means you can't trust any country to be consistently sane, and you need to structure your institutions and foreign policy accordingly.
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. - Abraham Maslow
When we start looking at people like Bolton, I think this is pretty much the case. He is no amature, but while his objectives do not align all that well with most of the other staff, his imagry does. Much of the whitehouse and its backers believe that one can win conflicts with 'inferior' people simply by giving them a bloody nose and they will submit, so they believe just a little violence or threats will get them the accolades they want. Bolton and his camp, I doubt they actually believe the bloody nose thing, they instead believe in large military actions that wipe out regimes.
In the US, per law, there is either a treaty or not. An agreement has no binding at all on the nation. What is done by a singular person with a "pen and a phone" can quickly and easily be undone by a later person with a "phone and a pen".
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!