Posted on 03/08/2018 10:56:41 PM PST by NRx
LOL. That’s a real Washington Compost headline. The bitterness just drips from it. When Trump gets Kim to give up his nukes, the Compost headline will be “North Korean Nuclear Workers Fear Starvation and Homelessness due to Trump’s bellicosity.”
Thank God for FR and other conservative sites on the internet.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Kim’s rhetoric turned out to be total BS, but Trump won’t put himself in a position where Kim could yank the rug out.
“And if the expectation is that Trump will travel to Kim for the visit then that automatically puts Kim in role of host, and Trump in the role of coming hat in hand.”
Is Trump saying he would go to NK to meet Kim on his turf? If so, I agree that would be a mistake - I just hadn’t heard that.
However, it would be fine if Trump invites Kim to DC, or happens to be in Asia for some other reason, and agrees to meet Kim on nuetral spot - as long as Trump has nothing invested and is always in a position to pull the plug if Kim does a 180.
The trick is having nothing invested - not building it up - and I think Trump is a master at this kind of thing. Prior to any meeting we would hear Trump publicly lowering expectations by saying things like “I’d love it if NK would give up its missile program but I don’t expect anything. We’ll see what happens”.
Trump won’t let this clown make a fool of him.
That is an EXCELLNT article!!! Thanks for posting!!! Maybe post it as its own thread?
Anyone who thinks the face-to-face is the START of the negotiation rather than the finished deal that’s been in the works for months is blind.The Washington Post believes that the Trump Administration is still playing by the rules of the Obama Administration, under which the face-to-face WOULD HAVE BEEN the start of the negotiation.
On MTP today:
CHUCK TODD: How does any meeting between Trump and Kim not turn into a victory for the North Koreans?
Gee doodledog, you and Chuck Todd are like, intellectual blood brothers.
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