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tgards79

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Sun Apr 22, 2018, 10:35 AM Apr 2018

BTRTN: Cohen and Syria, Comey and Korea, Chaos and Hysteria

Trump navigates treacherous global crises and his own legal travails -- alone.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/04/btrtn-cohen-and-syria-comey-and-korea.html

"The second major story is the upcoming summit with Kim Jong-Un, specifically the apparent concession he announced yesterday that North Korea was no longer going to test its nuclear weapons. This, coupled with a drop in North Korea’s demands that the U.S. withdraw troops from the DMZ, are being hailed as a major thawing in relations and a win for Donald Trump. Really? To my ears, Kim Jong-Un simply announced that North Korea has achieved full status as a nuclear power. There was no talk of de-nuclearization or abandoning any of his current weapons. The North Korean dictator has played his hand exceptionally well thus far, and I am not buying a “U.S. success” until we see how this unexpected strategic play unfolds. If you want a history lesson, ask Jimmy Carter, Madelaine Allbright and Bill Clinton how their 1994 “breakthrough” in North Korea worked out.

So – we have a very green President with no expertise and zero capability for thoughtful reflection, backed by….who? No Secretary of State (and Pompeo’s Senate approval in some doubt), a brand new National Security Advisor who has quickly fired many incumbent staff but has yet to replace them, a U.N. Ambassador who was summarily “Tillerson’ed,” and a new senior economic adviser who has already failed his first attempt to spin news for Trump – four very powerful foreign affairs voices all, in their own ways, stumbling onto centerstage in attempting to guide the President forward..."

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