soccerfan777 <
zepf...@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
> There is no mess. North Korea is responding to Trumps threats. He keeps his trap shut and a huge costly war is avoided
>
My God what a mess in your head.
All former or at least past few US presidents have threatened
North Korea with regime change. And we've seen them doing regime
changes around the worlds, starting illegal wars etc. Let's not
go into it why did they do it, and were those threats justifiable
in the case of north korea and how much of it was justifiable.
The fact is that Trump's threats are in no way worse than of
those before him.
By playing madman vs Kim (and secretly negotiating with him) Trump
is achieving many goals simultaneously.
One of them is that with his excessive and ridiculous verbal
warmongering that comes right out of north Korean propaganda
textbooks "fire and fury" mot only he's sending an understandable
message to Kim but he's in a way forcing US media to reconsider
the option that Kim, or north Korea in general, aren't bunch of
lunatics.
You have fake news now criticizing Trump and touting Kim as
"reasonable", saying he's bad, but not mad. Yet he was always
considered mad. So it's pathetic really how quickly they changed
the narrative, but it is a must have for Trump to restore ie give
Kim some credibility in American public perception. Only then can
he even negotiate something with him.
Because as of know, Kim is/was considered a Dr.Evil ridiculous
type of character that is a liability or must be removed and
someone with whom you have no room for discussion.
Of course he's not that.
North Koreans seem determined to secure deterrence in form of
nukes, so most likely they'll get it. You can thank neocons for
undermining international law and making everyone aware of the
fact that only wmd can protect you from aggression.
So the final secret deal will be something like Kim developing
missiles enough to reach e.g. Guam, Hawaii, presenting that to
his people and that's it. He'll concede trying to develop stuff
to have the ability to reach U.S. mainland because that'll
probably be Trump's red line.
If either of them is mad (Kim wanting to develop stuff to reach
U.S. mainland, or Trump demanding full denuclearization) we'll
have a war.
But I wouldn't bet on it.
I'm actually surprised nobody is paying attention to South
Koreans. They're loving it. One day when they reunite, North
Korea will be long time established nuclear force and United
Korea will just keep the nukes, transforming Korea into major
world power, 75 million people, economic and nuclear powerhouse.
They know they'll need nukes to have the ability to have an
independent economic course in Asia next to gigantic China.
If I was U.S. geostrategist thinking long term, north Korea,
especially unified Korea having nukes, in the long term,
irritates China much more than USA.