Not Worried About North Korea
Signal Sent, Message Not Heard
Yes, North Korea is sending a signal. Kim Jong Un isn’t worried because he is smart enough to criticize Joe Biden.
Only a Test
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Says Recent North Korean Missile Tests Didn’t Bother Him.
President Trump said he didn’t think North Korea’s missile tests were a violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions and acknowledged disagreement with his advisers.
“I view it differently,” Mr. Trump said Monday, speaking at a news conference with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The president said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “is looking to create a nation that has great strength economically.” He said recent small-missile tests by North Korea were possibly just an effort to get attention and that he wasn’t bothered by the tests.
On Saturday, national security adviser John Bolton said he thought the tests violated Security Council resolutions. At the news conference, Mr. Abe took the same view as Mr. Bolton.
Not Looking For Regime Change
After beating the war drums for weeks while demanding a regime change, Trump now says he is Not Looking to Topple Iranian Leadership.
Iran “has a chance to be a great country with the same leadership,’’ Trump said at a joint press conference in Tokyo on Monday alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “We are not looking for regime change. I just want to make that clear.’’
“I’m not looking to hurt Iran at all. I’m looking to have Iran say no nuclear weapons,” Trump said. “No nuclear weapons for Iran and I think we will make a deal.’’
Trump’s remarks come amid fears that rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran could lead to miscalculations that would precipitate an armed conflict engulfing the Middle East. Frictions escalated this month after the U.S. said Tehran was planning an offensive against American interests in the region, then made a show of military force in the Gulf.
“The crux of the message by President Trump is that he doesn’t really want war with Iran, what he is trying to do is de-escalate the calls for war, ” said Fawaz A. Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern politics at the London School of Economics. His message “to the Islamic Republic is that his latest moves are all about deterrence and not war.’’
Iran Wants a Deal
Trump says Iran wants a deal. That’s believable.
But the US already had a good deal. Our allies thought it was working. Even US intelligence thought it was working.
The main problem with it was Trump didn’t negotiate the deal.
Perfect Solution in Plain Sight
Iran needs to criticize Joe Biden and praise Trump’s negotiating skills.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Fucking A Trump is a nutcase. My god has their been a crazier president?!
Welcome to the Constanza school of negotiation.
STOP WITH THE SEINFIELD SPAMMING
“But the US already had a good deal. Our allies thought it was working. Even US intelligence thought it was working.”
Is what we are being told, the truth? After all, there were supposed to have been WMD’s in Iraq.
Zero Hedge:
The jury is still out on Trump. He hasn’t started a major war yet. Assange hasn’t yet been convicted.
I still have my fantasy that Trump will pardon Assange, fire Bolton, make a peace deal with N Korea, and get US troops out of Aghanistan, Syria and other places.
Not much chance he will reverse himself on Jerusalem, Palestine, or the Golan. But, Israel might elect a decent person. Netanyahu has failed to form a government, as yet.
I’m with you. Plus if only one treasoner goes to the gallows his presidency is a success. More is better.
North Korea food ration is 1100 calories per day. Cutworms have not arrived. They will arrive before President Trump leaves office. I am not concerned. North Koreans can live on 500 calories per day.
Seeing how far Trump is in bed with Netanyahu, be ready for a war with Iran. His rhetoric is just election speak. When it happens, he’ll say it’s just one of those things beyond our control… just like all those other wars “we” fought for israel.
You are so clueless. It was Obama who signed the deal giving mullahs 150 billion and 10 years to start the nuke program not Trump! You have been watching too much of the fake news.
Talk about clueless! Obama didn’t “give” them that money, it was theirs all along but frozen due to sanctions. They simply regained access to their own assets, plus the figure was far lower than $150B, probably about a third of that.
Obama was a useless puppet, but at least he didn’t have this weird obsession with Iran that Trump has. We’ve antagonized them since 1953, and other than appeasing Israel and Saudi Arabia, there is no benefit in continuing to do so. Enough already!
The author posted that the main problem Dotard Donald had with the existing Iran deal was that someone else negotiated it. Therefore, it was the worst deal ever. So I’m guessing he knows it’s not Trumps deal. There is no way in hell the Dotard has any idea what is in the deal. At most, he can remember a few sound bites he heard on Fox and Friends.
And your knowledge of the deal is probably pretty much the same since your talking points are that Obama gave them $150B and nukes in 10 years. In the actual world, Obama unfroze Iran’s money(<100B) in exchange for them giving up their nuclear program.
Anything is possible. And also impossible. He’s a brilliant guy, but I’ve never been a fan. Very low IQ. That’s a completely false made up fake news story by the corrupt phony media. Besides, I only did it to save myself. I make stuff up all the time and they usually just believe it. Believe me. Plus, I never said that and only said it to save time anyway. We’ll have to see what happens.
This is Presidential Speech Writing material you have here. Shamrock 2020 “Make America Something Sometime!”
So glad I now have a clear picture of US policy on war, trade, and national goals.
It’s back to the same situation there was in 2015 when Pentagon sponsored jihadis were fighting CIA sponsored jihadis in a an uncoordinated bid to destabilize Syria (as Sean Spicer mentioned 3× in one press conference). The idea that spreading mayhem in the rest of the world will somehow benefit future generations of under-educated and ill-trained uncompetetive Americans eludes me.
Thanks to Trump, Iran will decide to develop nuclear weapons to protect themselves from belligerent American rogue actors off their coast. If the current government loses at the polls, it will be to a more nationalistic coalition that feels the government was wrong to enter into deals with the Americans who have been proving to Iranians for upwards of 70 years that they cannot be trusted.
JEEZ….ain t there a Mad House near the White House or is the Mad House the very White House ?
Are you not entertained?
Did anyone not see this coming during the 2016 presidential campaigns?
His behavior has not changed a bit, except maybe he gets free rides to the golf courses.