POTUS UN Speech

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(09-23-2017, 12:36 AM)Dill Wrote: My articles were a response to Bfine's still unsupported claim that the Japanese are quite happy with Trump, as we were discussing the effects/consequences of Trump's speech and other behavior on the current conflict with NK.

Belsnickel, who elsewhere has agreed that Trump is an embarrassment to the US and not managing the Korean conflict well, discounted my links as too old and posted one which, as you say, does not adequately establish its premise. "Applause" seems to have been a reporter's colorful word choice. I expect Japanese to respond positively to Trump's mention of the kidnapped Japanese girl, but we're given no proof of such response; and even given proof of Japanese applauding the MENTION of the girl, it would hardly establish that they have suddenly changed their largely negative assessment of Trump's ability and policies--even if Bels' link is more current than mine.

Now it looks like SSF is asking you to judge the articles in question on their relevance to the general thread topic (Trump's UN speech), not on their relevance to the subtopic (Bfine's claim) which generated them. If the substitution of criteria is granted, then likely Bels' response to is more relevant to the thread topic.

You tried to refute Japan is not laughing at Trump by posting opines from almost 2 years ago; while there are numerous current articles about how we and Japan are in accord with the tougher stance against NK and somehow I'm the one that has not supported my claim.