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Nikki Haley hinted to China that ‘unpredictable’ Trump could invade North Korea: Report
The Washington Examiner ^ | October 17, 2018 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 10/17/2018 3:25:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Ambassador Nikki Haley used the threat of a U.S. invasion of North Korea to secure a new round of sanctions against the regime last year, according to a new report.

Harper’s Magazine reported that Haley raised the possibility of a U.S. invasion by telling a Chinese diplomat, “My boss is kind of unpredictable, and I don’t know what he’ll do."

Haley recalled making those comments during remarks at a small gathering of people at the Council for National Policy, and as part of her effort to discourage China from vetoing additional oil sanctions on North Korea last September, following the regime’s detonation of a nuclear bomb. Her remarks shed light on how the prospect of a U.S. strike on the Korean Peninsula helped broker a compromise between Haley’s initial call for a total oil embargo of the regime and the more modest cut the Security Council eventually passed.

“I tell the president, ‘I do this all the time,’” Haley said. “And he totally gets it.”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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Of course you'd use that.
1 posted on 10/17/2018 3:25:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess the press has never heard of the “Mutt and Jeff” routine.


2 posted on 10/17/2018 3:31:25 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fake news. She didn’t say it or even imply it. Nor did she say he was unpredictable. That’s my belief at any rate.


3 posted on 10/17/2018 3:32:52 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: PeteB570

“Good cop/Bad cop”


4 posted on 10/17/2018 3:33:08 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We don’t have the manpower to invade NK. It would be a stupid move, anyway.


5 posted on 10/17/2018 3:33:34 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Back in the day Nixon and Kissinger supposedly had a similar act. Nixon was seen as unpredictable and Kissinger would be sympathetic and assure people this was the best deal they’d possibly get.

Trump knows how to win. He learned negotiations in real estate where your classic hardball types, maybe even Mafia at some point through unions, had to be dealt with. He probably appreciates that one scene from Back To School where Rodney Dangerfield tries to school his professor about the realities of setting up a business in the big city and concludes that the people you’ll have to deal with aren’t the boyscouts.


6 posted on 10/17/2018 3:35:01 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: BwanaNdege

Always keep the enemy off balance. Trump is a master.


7 posted on 10/17/2018 3:36:43 PM PDT by refermech
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whatever she said or didn’t say Trump seems to be very happy with the job she has done.
I suspect they worked closely together on foreign policy matters.


8 posted on 10/17/2018 3:37:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gotta love it!

Good cop bad cop!

Absolutely love the idea of threatening despotic tyrants with “crazy Trump! Media all believe it so they’d back that one up in a heartbeat, he he he!!!

9 posted on 10/17/2018 3:37:40 PM PDT by zerosix
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That is a bovine scat headline.


10 posted on 10/17/2018 3:37:51 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And Ike hinted that he might nuke N. Korea-always keep them guessing!


11 posted on 10/17/2018 3:39:03 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: Rurudyne

You beat me to it. Sounds like Nixon at his best.


12 posted on 10/17/2018 3:40:39 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: laplata
We don’t have the manpower to invade NK. It would be a stupid move, anyway.

We may not have the *man* power but we most assuredly have the *fire* power.And yes,invasion would be very risky indeed...and dangerous for South Korea and Japan.

13 posted on 10/17/2018 3:42:07 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are they really that stupid? And fake? Yes, to both.


14 posted on 10/17/2018 3:44:42 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

President Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian Lawmakers

Sure, obviously...

but what's in it for President Trump?


15 posted on 10/17/2018 3:48:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s called “the Mad Man Strategy”, not anything new.


16 posted on 10/17/2018 3:50:12 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: laplata

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We do have the aircraft to deliver neutron weapons...
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17 posted on 10/17/2018 3:52:10 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The only thing I would bet for certain is that China does not want US Carrier Groups in their front yard.
Because, with every Carrier Group is at least one US Submarine to protect it.
And those bastards have big ears and can hear a long ways off, detecting Chinese Naval activity.
18 posted on 10/17/2018 3:53:21 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: editor-surveyor

We do have the aircraft to deliver neutron weapons...


Unless they restarted the lines, B Clinton had them all disassembled ... they no longer exist. China has the only known working and tested neutron nuclear bombs.


19 posted on 10/17/2018 3:57:01 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: hardspunned

A good tag team is hard to come by.

It requires people you can trust and who know the drill.

Nixon had one in Kissinger.

Trump seems saddled with people he can’t trust ... but is he really? That could be part of the game ... and if you’re into Q is.

When I talk about people he seems to not be able to trust but really can I’m not saying I believe in something as directed and covert as Q Anon is happening and I’m certainly not talking about the deep state weasels who are relative to Trump what the McGovernites were once to Carter (Carter wasn’t up to the game the way Nixon was, but what he might have achieved as the last push back of the old Democrats from before LBJ and McGovern ... before many finally left for the RNC with Reagan ... was curtailed by the very sort of people who now ARE the DNC, the sort of people the anticommunists were fighting to prevent, who he could never trust and who could never be trusted and should never be trusted).


20 posted on 10/17/2018 3:59:58 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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