It’s extortion. Somebody will end up offering him a few dozen billion $$$ or more.
Kinda what I was thinking. I wonder if, every time he makes noise about, or test fires a weapon, that we refill his EBT card and then he shuts up for a while. He makes some more noise, time to refill the card ... lather, rinse, repeat.
It probably is a type of extortion. He is no fool. All he has to do is look around the world. Those countries which have abandoned their nuclear programs under pressure from the west have been toppled. Libya agreed to a program in return for lifting of trade embargoes. He was regime changed. Iraq lost their program in an attack and never restarted. He was regime changed. Pakistan and India developed programs and grew closer to the US. And notably Iran audaciously refused to give one inch, not even to reduce their “remove Israel from the map” rhetoric and we gave them a peace treaty. The then asked for ransom and we paid it!
So why would Rocket Man back down now?
Not us. Perhaps it can be laundered through the UN...