re: Surprise! Donald Trump is terrible at diplomacy. - WaPo - Update: FT Still Right

They went through the rollercoaster of emotions there pretty quickly

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We aren’t celebrating that North Korean tensions haven’t improved. We’re doing a victory lap and telling you “I told you so”.

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Only a fricking nerd from GaTech could post this BS.
You Libs are the true scum of the earth and have been played again by the savage beast in the White House.

I just popped in here to bump this again. Carry on

and like Kirk Russell in Miracle


AGAIN

do you feel like a dipshit?

North Korea is following the playbook any good deal maker would:

Trump praised them endlessly, made a weird threat, said something incomprehensible about who asked for the meeting, and said to contact him if they wanted to talk after he shut down talks.

They’re now saying that they’re open to talks anywhere and wherever, and Trump will find another reason to balk for several reasons that are all policy related:

North Korea doesn’t need the US so long as China is friendly (see the OP).

North Korea has their deterrent, and doesn’t need to barter for much. So long as they’re the thing that Chinese economic deals hinge on, they’re safe.

This offer will be met by some impossible demand from Trump that everyone knows they won’t meet (giving up all nuclear weapons, etc). This will lead to China continuing to back North Korea, and shifting their focus to other major countries, while American sanctions continue to be less and less impactful.

China has made out like bandits, and this overture from North Korea is the most obvious way forward that Trump cannot possibly accept. Diplomacy isn’t a one on one game where you beat someone and move on. It’s complicayed, it’s hard, it often fails, and it’s doing so here spectacularly.

toot toot tootsie

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It appears you do, in fact, not get tired of being wrong

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Exactly. The TDS is way strong with him

A want at least tapped out