You make it sound like we caused the war. NK invaded South Korea.
> The same is true with the Russians when you consider Vietnam was a
> proxy war with the Soviets..
What would you have done, given them a cake and handed over Western Europe
after they already stole all of Eastern Europe? Seems to me we handled Russia
pretty much right, following WWII, right on through the end. Except maybe we
should have kicked their asses back into Russia in 1946. We had the atomic bomb,
they didn't. But no one could have predicted exactly what would happen with
Eastern Europe and they had been our allies.
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> We are coddling the Chinese who are more of an existential threat to
> us than either of them, mostly because it is good for business.
> I suppose if the Russians and N Koreans had products we wanted to buy,
> we would rework our strategy.
It's not clear that China is more of an existential threat to us than NK.
And China today, isn't nearly as bad as what it was 50 years ago in terms
of oppression and human rights. And it's a totally different situation with
regards to nuclear arms. China already has them, while NK has just
started. China has a rational, stable leader and others in the govt to
balance out any crazy ideas. China has done a spectacular job building
it's economy and wealth. KJU is a one man nut show starving millions
to death. Trump offered him the China alternative in return for giving
up nuclear weapons. KJU refused. I'm sure the Obama/Hillary experience
with what they did in Libya didn't help. Nor did Trump's reneging on the
nuclear deal we made with Iran either. I'm sure NK inteligence had
plenty of reports for KJU on what a lying shyster Trump is. I wouldn't
have trusted anything he promised, would you?
But like I said in the other post, we are in a new era with NK, we've never
put this kind of extreme economic pressure on a country that has nuclear
weapons and increasingly has the potential to strike the US. So somebody
better be thinking about what the right strategy is moving forward.
> I am not saying Trump did everything right but I am not sure the idea
> was wrong.
Even if the idea was OK, the execution was totally wrong. He could have
had a meeting with less publicity and even worse, all the lies and praise
for a genocidal dictator. Trump didn't even get a definition of denuclearization,
yet he lied and claimed he achieved it.