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  • gut
    QuakerOats;1866746 wrote:Who to thank, Donald Trump or Dennis Rodman :)
    Or did Trump just start a war of words and Kim was never going to do anything?

    They still have nukes and continue to develop long-range missiles....means Trump doing as well in NK as his predecessors.
  • Spock
    gut;1866782 wrote:Or did Trump just start a war of words and Kim was never going to do anything?

    They still have nukes and continue to develop long-range missiles....means Trump doing as well in NK as his predecessors.
    What do think Trump should do? If he cleans up Clinton, Bush, Obamas mess the left will use it against him. If he doesnt do anything the left will use it against him.

    Rock and hard place politically.
  • QuakerOats
    Trump could stroll into N Korea and diplomatically cause the nutball to politely and willingly hand over everything nuclear, and the media would call him a bully.

    And this will continue for 8 years.
  • gut
    I don't care what the media says.

    I'm not creaming my pants because his greatest foreign policy achievement thus far is winning a war of words with Kim that was stupid, risky, unnecessary and accomplished nothing.
  • QuakerOats
    I don't know that we won anything. Although if we have managed to get China to apply the needed pressure to defuse the situation, that is probably a good thing. Of course, no credit would ever be given to Trump, which obviously we all realize.
  • fish82
    gut;1866789 wrote:I don't care what the media says.

    I'm not creaming my pants because his greatest foreign policy achievement thus far is winning a war of words with Kim that was stupid, risky, unnecessary and accomplished nothing.
    Modern international diplomacy in a nutshell, IMO.
  • Commander of Awesome
    Thank you China.
  • Dr Winston O'Boogie
    fish82;1866761 wrote:As predicted.

    You're welcome. Prayers to all who spent 2 weeks pissing themselves.
    Hostile rhetoric from North Korea is nothing new. It has been happening for 60 years. Sometimes it gets more aggressive than other times. What's occurred these past few weeks is nothing new. They likelihood that Kim (like his father and grandfather before him) will start shooting is low. That would mean the end of him and his time in power. These stunts are face-saving exercises designed to keep his own people in line. What the US president says or doesn't say is irrelevant. Trump didn't do anything except occupy the presidency while this latest North Korean screaming pout went on.
  • Dr Winston O'Boogie
    QuakerOats;1866787 wrote:Trump could stroll into N Korea and diplomatically cause the nutball to politely and willingly hand over everything nuclear, and the media would call him a bully.

    And this will continue for 8 years.
    This is funny coming from someone who was able to somehow tie every perceived wrong during the past 8 years to Obama.
  • QuakerOats
    If the shoe fits ..........
  • gut
    Commander of Awesome;1866801 wrote:Thank you China.
    Well, maybe Trump deserves some credit for that.

    Although, IMO, US trade/economics is far more important to China than NK....and it was never really a doubt that China would stand on the sidelines if Kim launched an unprovoked attack. The assumption China's public statement was material would have to assume China was not already saying those things privately to NK (which I think is very likely).

    But unless NK ceases its missile tests, then nothing Trump or China said made any real difference.
  • Spock
    Commander of Awesome;1866801 wrote:Thank you China.
    obama wouldnt of got this done.

    So yea....thanks Don.
  • friendfromlowry
    Spock;1866785 wrote:What do think Trump should do? If he cleans up Clinton, Bush, Obamas mess the left will use it against him. If he doesnt do anything the left will use it against him.

    Rock and hard place politically.
    QuakerOats;1866787 wrote:Trump could stroll into N Korea and diplomatically cause the nutball to politely and willingly hand over everything nuclear, and the media would call him a bully.

    And this will continue for 8 years.
    QuakerOats;1866793 wrote:I don't know that we won anything. Although if we have managed to get China to apply the needed pressure to defuse the situation, that is probably a good thing. Of course, no credit would ever be given to Trump, which obviously we all realize.
    Spock;1866817 wrote:obama wouldnt of got this done.

    So yea....thanks Don.
    God damn what a bunch of whiny bitching. "Poor Donald everyone hates him!"
  • Commander of Awesome
    Spock;1866817 wrote:obama wouldnt of got this done.

    So yea....thanks Don.
    Yeah, obama really screwed up the technical and difficult Iran negotiations. Great point...oh wait. I meant the exact opposite of that.

    Moving along, I don't think comparing Drumpf to Obama is relevant or helpful in this scenario. It's really about NK situation has been mishandled for a very long time. And the president tweeting and having "tough" talk about it isn't a strategy for success.
  • superman
    Commander of Awesome;1866869 wrote:Yeah, obama really screwed up the technical and difficult Iran negotiations. Great point...oh wait. I meant the exact opposite of that.

    Moving along, I don't think comparing Drumpf to Obama is relevant or helpful in this scenario. It's really about NK situation has been mishandled for a very long time. And the president tweeting and having "tough" talk about it isn't a strategy for success.
    Maybe he should have just shipped them secret pallets of cash?
  • Spock
    Commander of Awesome;1866869 wrote:Yeah, obama really screwed up the technical and difficult Iran negotiations. Great point...oh wait. I meant the exact opposite of that.

    Moving along, I don't think comparing Drumpf to Obama is relevant or helpful in this scenario. It's really about NK situation has been mishandled for a very long time. And the president tweeting and having "tough" talk about it isn't a strategy for success.
    oh well maybe he should of drawn a red line in the sand.
  • like_that
    Spock;1866887 wrote: should of .
    Have, fucking have.
  • QuakerOats
    superman;1866885 wrote:Maybe he should have just shipped them secret pallets of cash?

    That's what you do when you have been anointed with the Nobel Peace Prize .......in advance.
  • Commander of Awesome
    Can we get back on topic of North Korea please? I really don't want this thread to devolve into bashing Obama thread. Every other thread in the politics forum is that.
  • salto
    Spock;1866775 wrote:no he is just a meglamaniac
    True. He wants a nuke just to say he has one but will never use it because he's not suicidal.
  • majorspark
    Is it in our national security interest too not allow a third less stable nation to primarily target their nuclear arsenal on our major cities? Why should we not very aggressively combat this?
  • QuakerOats
    majorspark;1866994 wrote:Is it in our national security interest too not allow a third less stable nation to primarily target their nuclear arsenal on our major cities? Why should we not very aggressively combat this?
    Because in the last 8 years we have been transformed; the wussification of America is pretty well complete.
  • Automatik
    ^^^Prime example of the wussification of this country.

  • Spock
    Commander of Awesome;1866965 wrote:Can we get back on topic of North Korea please? I really don't want this thread to devolve into bashing Obama thread. Every other thread in the politics forum is that.
    But bashing trump is ok? Obama was a total screw up with international affairs.
  • Commander of Awesome
    Spock;1867004 wrote:But bashing trump is ok? Obama was a total screw up with international affairs.
    Pointing out and discussing the current president's dealing with an international threat is hardly just bashing trump to bash him snowflake.