While i appriciate the eagerness some have for declaring everything Trump touches as a failure, but perhaps it might be prudent for them to wait until this chapter in our relationship plays itself out.
DPRK just lobbed a couple more missiles around, yesterday. Yet in another thread I had a Trump poster exclaim Trump has a long record of success in office. But the poster claims he didn't want to list the accomplishments for me, because he says he listed them earlier but the recipient then didn't accept the claims as valid. They ya' go! Can't make it up.
I think its a fair question to ask. I could list a handful of successes but im not sure you would view them as such because of your ideological differences. For instance he got us out of the paris agreement and i dont think you would view that as a sucess but I do.
It would be easier to accept this, if Trump didn't loudly proclaim he solved everything with one short meeting with Kim. Trump causes his own problems. He's a sociopathic liar & blow-hard. Due to this, most can't resist sticking it back to him in the way he does it to us. Why should he have all the fun? Nobody likes a braggart bully.
I actually agree with your point on this. It was foolhardy of him to proclaim sucess so prematurely. I even admitted that at the time. He did have some sucess but not to the degree he tooted his own horn.
I agree that Kim will starve his people before he gives up his nukes. That only works in the short term, eventually if he is starved out enough his people will turn on him including his military snd his finances will be drained to the point where he can not sustain financing his military programs. That is if the world has the stomach to do that to the millions of innocent people that would be used as pawns in such a fight.
I agree that i think taking a tough stance is the best approach for dealing with Kim but im not gonna fault Trump for trying to use diplomacy first. What happens next is the question.
Im skeptical about how this is gonna unfold. Im keeping an open mind right now but i can offer my opinion on what our reaction should be to any new testing. I support a dessert storm styled shock and awe carpet bombing campagin on all their military establishments that does not stop until they unconditionally surrender. Agsin i dont think we have the stomach for it but its something i would support.
Lets say Trumps motives are selfish, why does that matter if it leads to neuralizing the threat they pose? I dont care if he is doing to get a silly prize or his motive is aulturis.
He dead soldiers remains and he got NK to temporarily stop testing. He also got the tone of rhetoric down to a cooler tempature. Those things are not nothing. They are not enough to declare victory either but give credit where its due
