03-28-2018, 10:53 AM
(03-28-2018, 10:21 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The irony with you saying this is rather humorous.
Not really, though. The DPRK is constantly trying to get a meeting with POTUS. A meeting like that helps to legitimize the head of the country and that is all they are seeking. They have said they won't test for the time being, but that's not a big concession. We know their program is still active thanks to images of activity at a reactor in their country. Now with the Kim-Xi meeting, it actually takes leverage away from Trump. The signal here, at least what the foreign policy reporters specializing in Asia say, is that any deal with DPRK must go through China/Xi. Now, instead of this being US/SK and NK talks, this is SK backed by the US and NK backed by China talks.
We are in the same place we have always been, except we are flying blind because of the extreme understaffing in our foreign services and a Diplomat in Chief that doesn't understand (or seemingly even like) diplomacy, taking advice from a new NSA that is known to try to manipulate intelligence to serve hawkish purposes.
Maybe the Democrats should stop holding up all the ambassadors.
