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goobster  ·  2238 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Another Giant Step

Once again, Trump is easily manipulated by a foreign power into doing something stupid.

NK is not a legitimate country, in any sense of the word. They are artificially propped up by "secret" supply lines of cash and food from China and Russia, who both fear what happens if someone OTHER than the ruling party gets control of NKs weapons.

NK has been DESPERATE for legitimacy. They have been groveling and whimpering for recognition by anyone other than their smuggling contacts.

And now, in one year, they got the biggest superpower on the planet to agree to FACE TO FACE TALKS between their supreme leaders, AND got to pretend they haven't been threatening to kill their southern neighbors for 50 years, and participate as "Korea" at the Olympics!!

This is like that guy hustling his rap CDs on the corner downtown... and David Geffen says, "Hey man, come up to my office. I wanna cut a record with you." Or like the head of the Zetas cartel getting an invite to the White House. They have nothing to offer, and everything to gain from a photo op in the Oval Office shaking Trumplestiltskin's hand.

Trump has, yet again, been manipulated.

Example: Trump and Kim meet. Trump tells him to stop building nuclear weapons. Kim says No.

What then?

Kim has just elevated NK to a world power, with a single word. And there ain't dick Trump can do about it. Because we have wargamed an invasion of North Korea, and we update those projections annually. And it NEVER comes out well for anyone, and the knock-on effects (open conflict between Russia and China - who share a 4000 kilometer border, massive death tolls up and down the Korean peninsula, collateral damage throughout Japan and SE Asia, and potential fatalities up and down the west coast of America, not to mention that Tibet gets their chance to fight China while China is busy with Russia, and a single rogue bullet from that conflict ignites the long-simmering India/Pakistan war that has been brewing for a lifetime now)... Trump has truly stuck his dick in crazy this time, and there is NO exit strategy where we come out on top.