Kim said he was prepared in principle to denuclearize, and Trump said an agreement was “ready to sign.” But Trump said the main impediment to a deal was Kim’s requirement that the United States lift all economic sanctions on North Korea in exchange for the closure of only one nuclear facility, which still would have left Pyongyang with a large arsenal of missiles and warheads.
A suprisingly up-front play for NK, when you consider how they usually do things.
I was expecting more along the lines of, “We’ll de-nuclearize completely, but you have to lift sanctions and give us 300 tons of food to feed our army”. Then, later, we start learning bit by bit that their de-nuclearization was a fraud.
As if we didn’t already know that. Intelligence services have been publicly saying since the original meeting that they are ramping up their arsenal and production and Trump would hand wave it away every time when asked about.
Agreed. Whenever one of Trump’s projects reaches a dead end, I breathe a sigh of relief.
Maybe Trump did? He’s unsophisticated enough to believe that other world leaders see multilateral geopolitics through the same transactional zero-sum lenses that he uses, but surely no-one else thought these talks were going anywhere.
Just imagine if Obama would have had such a caricature of a bodyguard.
I refrain from looking for a gif, since I would either feel like a racist idiot or I would use a really likable person’s picture. However, I can just imagine a “conservatives” reaction…
Calamari? Seriously? How can any human be surnamed “squid appetizer?” On the other hand, the fact that he bears such a surname might explain why he appears to looking for an excuse to thump somebody. “Who you callin` Squidboy?”
Was that not one of those weird Golden Age superheroes?
Young Matt Calamari lives with his widowed mother by the sea, taunted and teased because he cannot swim - but when a school of tuna are in danger or a whale is threatened, he raises the Trident of Neptune and becomes SQUIDBOY!
Alternatively, if you’re like me, and this is about the level of reality you can engage with at this point in American history (and now slipping, as I’ve reached the end of season 4!)
