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Originally Posted by GotHereQuickAsICould
Xi might be able to pressure Kim into changing his ways, but Trump isn't going to do squat.
Xi is fine with Kim keeping the nukes. It protects part of China's borders and keeps the U.S. throwing money into the military while China focuses on economic growth, buying gold to back the yuan, etc.
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Exactly. Why would China want NK to cough up the nukes? It makes no sense.
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Originally Posted by Listener2307
Here's the question:
If the US is so powerless, why did Kim meet with Trump? Why didn't he meet with, say, Nicaragua? 
If they don't give up nukes, they are going to have to remain isolated. You don't know this, but Nikki Haley went to the UN and got a unanimous vote to impose sanctions on Korea. The Koreans don't like the sanctions one bit. They are not even allowed to sell rocks and dirt, cannot import petroleum products, and are busy trying to find ways to work around the sanctions.
Will it all work out? I dunno. But in the meantime it is nice to be entertained by the Trump Resistance. |
Kim met with Trump to show the world that he has gravitas. He didn’t meet Trump because he’s scared of Trump. He knows Trump is feckless in the face of his nukes.
Why didn’t they meet with Nicaragua? Because Nicaragua isn’t stupid enough to believe that NK is a threat to our hemisphere nor are they dimwitted enough to believe that Kim would give up the only leverage they have in a world where the United States goes around toppling regimes like an idiot.
North Korea doesn’t give a damn about your sanctions. Sanctions hurt the little people, not the bigwigs. And the little people are in no position to rise up and overthrow the leadership of the country. Get real.
A United States President going to NK talking about hotels on beaches and opening KFC’s is ludicrous on its face. Trump is a mental midget. Geez.
And Nikki Haley? SMH...she’s a foreign policy dilettante for crying out loud. She’s educated beyond her understanding.
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