Thursday 24 May 2018

That's Trump's Peace Prize Knackered Then

It takes some brass balls to say that you may have someone deposed and then killed and then blame them for being hostile but that is exactly what the Americans have done after Donald Trump has pulled out of the North Korea nuclear summit meeting with Kim Jong Un.
In a letter to Kim released by the White House, Trump said he had been very much looking forward to meeting the North Korean leader but: 'Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting'.
The hostility was North Korean official Choe Son-hui dismissing remarks by US Vice-President Mike Pence - who had said North Korea "may end like Libya" - as 'stupid'.
Constant references to Libya from John Bolton, Donald Trump and now Mike Pence have angered North Korea which considering that former leader Colonel Gaddafi gave up his nuclear programme only for him to be killed by Western-backed rebels a few years later is fair enough.
In a typical bit of White House shambles, Bolton was referring to the process of how Libya gave up their nuclear ambitions while Trump misunderstood that to mean the way Libya was invaded and killed by Western forces and Pence doubled down on his bosses famous ignorance and the North Koreans quite understandably weren't so keen on the threats being made if they failed to toe the
American line.
The spin to put the blame on the North Koreans for the summits failure to happen has already began to try and hide yet another Trump foreign policy blunder but if the American tactics before any future peace meetings is to threaten to have the leader forcibly removed and killed then i think they may need to rethink their negotiating tactics.
At least it removes the boneheaded discussion that Donald Trump of all people may be in line for a peace prize.

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