SadKangaroo
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It was strange the lead up to this. Trump's cancellation, then weak "it's a great letter, I haven't read it yet" reason to put it back on the table after this first calls for "I will denuclearise North Korea in this meeting" to after it being put back on, "this is but the first step"...
It's like, as usual, Trump has an (uninformed) opinion of how things would go, learnt just the bare minimum of information to make him realise he had no idea what he was getting himself into, called it all off, realised that this hurt him in his support base because he made them look incredibly stupid with all their claims that he'd already brought peace to the region and should get the Nobel Peace Prize, and that coin, so he found a reason to put it back on (without reading the reason) and then lowered expectations even further.
But all of that aside, with all his rhetoric before the meeting, about the little rocket man, the nuclear buttons etc, most people were worried Trump would go there being the uninformed loudmouth that he is, thinking he knows best and making the situation worse by escalating tensions even further.
Well, that didn't happen, which was great. But it swung equally as far in the opposite direction.
Trump did exactly what every other president and world leader have tried their hardest not to do and play directly into North Korea's hands.
In reality, it was more akin to a negotiation with terrorists. The US has a policy of not negotiating with Terrorists because of the message it sends, but this is exactly what Trump did, and not only that, he showed how bad a negotiator he is.
Now, all any nation has to do to get a seat at the big boy table is whatever the hell their want, to their people, to their neighbours, so long as they can become a Nuclear power, they'll get the Red Carpet treatment by the US.
This is either an extremely dangerous precedent, especially given the level of admiration and praise Trump has PUBLICLY shown to this monster but also has signalled to the rest of the world that the US is not to be looked to for leadership anymore.
This is a great opportunity for Russia and especially China to step up and replace the US as the more dominant superpower.
Another of Trump's potential disastrous legacies and like so many others, he seems oblivious to it because he's so focused on himself. He's stacked his team, those that should be keeping him grounded, with yes men. It's the worse case scenario.
At the end of the day, while this is on Trump's shoulders, I really don't care whose fault it is, I just hope Trump can realise the situation he's in and finds a way to fix it. The US with all their faults, their stupid and flawed notions of "leave it to the free markets" and trickle down economics, they are still more in line with our values and the lesser of evils when it comes to "world leadership" (for lack of a better term).
It's the same thing from day one after the election, we wish Trump all the best because his failuers have global impacts, but we don't hold much hope for him not smacking things up.
Time and time again that lack of faith has sadly been proven true for anyone interested in objective reality and taken as further proof of the deep state or some other conspiracy to Trumps supporters, some who are even brought to tears by how mean everyone is being to Trump.
What the actual F..!?
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