Posted on 08/04/2017 10:27:56 PM PDT by Rockitz
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley is structuring a U.N. Security Council resolution toward North Korea by targeting a ban on DPRK exports. This approach is in line with the larger Trump strategy to leverage economic sanctions as pressure on North Korea to stop advancing military expansion and nuclear weapons.
However, how President Trump has set Nikki Haley up for success on this resolution is something for the history books to write about:
First: A review of the possible enhanced sanctions against N-Korea should be incorporated with the larger issue of policy toward the DPRK’s enabler, China. President Trump, Secretary Mnuchin and Secretary Ross have positioned a severely consequential trade reset between the U.S. and China. [Trump and Ross delayed an announcement on trade sanctions against China which was scheduled for today.]
Second: The enhanced U.S. energy export initiatives, in conjunction with lower oil prices, an outcome of U.S. energy policy and a mutually beneficial relationship between President Trump and Arab states in the GCC, have severely weakened the economic position of Russia.
Russia’s energy export economy is dependent on energy prices remaining high. President Trump has brilliantly worked the geopolitical economic relationships to leverage influence over a large portion of the Russian economy.
Combine these two points and you discover the leverage President Trump’s team has created.
This is now a situation where China and Russia’s best economic interests are enmeshed with supporting U.S. sanctions against North Korea.
Russia and China have been drawn into an economic battle space controlled by the US.
President Trump can offer a ‘better’ trade outcome for China if they comply with Nikki Haley’s sanctions. Similarly President Trump can negotiate with Russia on ‘better’ or “more favorable’ terms for U.S. energy shipments to Eastern Europe, again if Russia complies with Nikki Haley’s sanctions.
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WTH hell do they export? ice?
The only thing that seems to be in abundance in NK is the lack of overnight lighting. They cannot export this excess commodity. There’s no market for it.
Pence/Haley 2024?
Sounds good.
How the hell has North Korea managed to build a massive military stockpile?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3545259/posts
The top exports of North Korea are Coal Briquettes ($951M), Non-Knit Men’s Coats ($169M), Non-Knit Men’s Suits ($153M), Non-Knit Women’s Coats ($131M) and Non-Knit Women’s Suits ($97.1M),
Barry, the Community Organizer ...
Yes (meth), and also heroin, recreational drugs, counterfeit money, and so on.
They sell Carbon credits.
I’m guessing carbon credits taste a whole lot better than north korean kimchee.
Rockets and nukes to Iran and the ME.
from the profits of exporting iron, iron ore, coal and lead.
Edible grass and tree bark?
This type of Leverage does not work against a dictatorship that is being used as a proxy by communist China......
Sanctions need to be enacted against communist China!
I’m confused. Russia colluded with the Trump campaign to get him elected. How did that benefit Russia?
Didn’t Trump/US just pass sanctions against Russia? Why will they help against NK now?
Enforcement requires a blockade
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