John Bolton’s most potent weapon against President Trump is simple but brutal — mockery.
Source: The Memo: Bolton exposé makes Trump figure of mockery | TheHill
Tag: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
Trump finally ruled that North Korea remains ‘a nuclear threat’ – France 24
Ten days after the Trump-Kim summit, the US president on Friday called the North Korean nuclear arsenal “extraordinary threat”. No concrete progress of a “complete denuclearization” has, moreover, been recorded.
It’s a turnaround: Just ten days after his historic meeting with Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump on Friday (June 23rd) called the North Korean nuclear arsenal “exceptional and extraordinary threat” to justify the continuation of the sanctions. against Pyongyang.
Source: Trump finally ruled that North Korea remains ‘a nuclear threat’ – France 24
Trump really has achieved a historic breakthrough – for the Kim dynasty | Jonathan Freedland | Opinion | The Guardian
A useful way to test the deal Donald Trump has reached with Kim Jong-un is to imagine what Trump himself would have said had it been Barack Obama rather than him who shook hands with the North Korean dictator. Trump and his echo chamber on Fox News and elsewhere would have poured buckets of derision on Obama for the piece of paper he signed with Kim, for the fawning praise he lavished on a brutal tyrant, and for the paltry non-concessions he got in return. He would have branded the agreement a “horrible deal” and condemned Obama as a sucker for signing it.
Look first at what Kim got from the encounter. Once ostracised as a pariah, Kim was treated as a world statesman on a par with the president of the United States, the two meeting on equal terms, right down to the equal numbers of flags behind them as they shook hands. The tyrant now has a showreel of images – including his walkabout in Singapore, where he was mobbed by what the BBC called “fans” seeking selfies – which will feature in propaganda videos for months, if not years.
Can Trump persuade Kim Jong-un to give up nuclear weapons? | Asia Times
President Trump is prepared to offer North Korea full diplomatic relations in return for full denuclearization, Jonathan Swan and Mike Allen reported at the website axios.com. The US president “is willing to consider establishing official relations with North Korea and even eventually putting an embassy in Pyongyang,” the news site quoted US government sources, in return for denuclearization.
The trade-off of North Korea’s nuclear weapons in return for international legitimacy for the Pyongyang regime is an approach that previous US Administrations considered and rejected. But it is the only diplomatic strategy that has a chance of working. Pyongyang might accept Complete, Verifiable and Irreversible Dismantlement, or CVID, of its nuclear weapons stockpile in return for one thing and one thing only, and that is survivability of its regime.
Source: Can Trump persuade Kim Jong-un to give up nuclear weapons? | Asia Times
Read reactions from business world to the cancelled Trump-Kim talks: Ace Worldwide News Group
Source: Read reactions from business world to the cancelled Trump-Kim talks: Ace Worldwide News Group
Can the US bring about ‘regime change’ in Iran?
This is playing with fire and what could occur.
The West have interfered in Arabic situations for a number of years being Iraq, Syria, Lybia and others, when the Government of the day that the West did not wish to be there, all hell was let loose as the West does not understand Arabic politics, interference can create worse situations.
Then interfering with economics, the Dollar maybe powerful, but if it is used for political purposes, there could well be qa move to a more convenient currency to replace the Dollar for economic trade.
In any of these instances and there may be others, what could be the outcomes and the results may not be beneficial for America.
Is the current Korean situation the result of Trump or is Kim Jong-un playing a long game, and is using Trump for their own ends.
Trump is a naive novice in politics and believes bluster will achieve all he wishes, but political situations are not similar to Boardroom conflicts, although it may appear to be.
We will have to wait and see in all these aspects, but if it all turns out as disasters it may be not only the end for Trump, but the World as we know it, from which there may be no return and life will not be the same, that is, if there is still life.
President Trump’s administration appears set to wage economic war against Iran in order to bring about “regime change.”
The pattern would be the economic war the U.S. government has waged against Venezuela, which has crashed that country’s economy and created desperate poverty.
Top members of the Trump administration have long been committed to overthrowing the Iranian government. But they’re not going to get the American public and Congress to support war with Iran.
What’s left is covert warfare, subsidizing dissidents and rebels in Iran, and economic warfare, using U.S. financial power to punish businesses that do business with Iran.
Because most international trade is done in U.S. dollars, and because most transactions in dollars go through U.S. banks, the U.S. government is in a position to do great damage to businesses and business owners that displease it.
This comes at a price, though. Each time the U.S. government forces…
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Thanks to Trump, We’re Now Two Minutes From Midnight
This is the Doomsday Clock set up by the Organisation of Atomic Scientists, to show graphically how close the world is to nuclear omnicide. It used to be five minutes to midnight, and I remember the New Cold War of the 1980s, when Thatcher and Reagan nearly started a nuclear conflict. As did a computer malfunction over on the Soviet side. The only way we served that is because of an heroic Red Army officer, who insisted on visual confirmation because he correctly didn’t trust machines. The man was reduced to a nervous wreck afterwards, but he’s a hero. He saved the world.
Now we’ve moved closer to full-scale nuclear war. The scientists blame Trump, his stupid remarks on Twitter, and his sparring and provocation of Kim Jong-Un.
The man’s a menace. For the safety of all humanity, and our beautiful planet, he has to go. Now.
Donald Trump warns ‘major, major conflict’ with North Korea is ‘absolutely’ possible | The Independent
Donald Trump has warned about a “major, major conflict” between the US and North Korea, saying a catastrophic confrontation with the isolated state was “absolutely” possible. In an interview ahead of his 100th day in office, the President said he was committed to resolving the diplomatic crisis peacefully.
Striking North Korea Could Harm Key U.S. Ally, Analysts Warn | The Huffington Post
“There are no good options. They do not exist.”
Source: Striking North Korea Could Harm Key U.S. Ally, Analysts Warn | The Huffington Post
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