[Inyo-Mono]

Mighty interesting.

[Slyfox]

I see it this way - when JPII and Reagan were outsmarting the Soviets, they did so because they both completely understood all them Ruskies.

The difference with Trump is that he has had to deal with the mafia all his professional life, he knows when to bite the cannoli and when to leave it on the plate.

Kim Jung Il is just a short, fat mafioso.

[mylife]

Kims been kinda quiet lately, the scuttlebutt is he is in back channel negotiations so Kim can save face.

Whatever is going on, Trump shut him down.. for now.

[pepsi_junkie]

That tweet from Trump about how his nuclear button is bigger, more powerful, and actually works is perhaps the funniest thing I think I ever heard a President say!

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[tired&retired]

It’s not psychiatry. It’s common sense which has been lost by most politicians.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Jong Un's sister is a white hat. If anyone ever seen the movie "The Interview," this is how it's exactly being played out.

Yeah, I know it starred lefties Franco and Seth, but it is an excellent movie. Hilarious too.

[captain_dave]

Future historians will regard Donald Trump as one of the greatest presidents of the United States of America. People will say, when asked to name the greatest presidents: “Washington, Trump, and Lincoln”.

George Washington made America, Abraham Lincoln preserved America, and Donald Trump Restored America and Made America Great Again.

[SamAdams76]

In October, a tunnel collapsed at the N. Korean nuclear test site. At least 200 people were killed.

My theory is that this was no "accident" and that it was much more than just a tunnel collapse. It's just a theory on my part but I think that our military carried out a devastating attack on the nuclear test site to show Kim what we were capable of.

I think the N. Korean's squeezed off one last missile test after that but there has been nothing since.

Don't forget that Trump made an Asian trip in early November. So the October timeline makes sense - we wanted to remove any imminent threat while POTUS was over there.

That would explain better Trump's provocative tweets to N. Korea in November and January. Knowing that the N. Koreans posed no further immediate nuclear threat, Trump was not risking much with those tweets and if you read between the lines, he was basically challenging them to come to the table and work things out before things got to the next level.

[familyop]

It’s always been simple, really. When we recede in fear from possibilities of nuclear wear, foreign enemies build up their nuclear forces more rapidly. They want to expand and occupy more ground and more people. Communist and fascist nations are insatiable and often encouraged by what they perceive as fear.

It’s much like the various reactions that either encourage or inhibit schoolyard bullies. Bully nations are similar to the schoolyard bully in some ways and are not like us in some ways in their thought patterns.

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[AZLiberty]

Trump's tweets masterfully employ communication techniques that are foundational to modern psychoanalysis.

Well that, and blowing up NK's nuclear research facility back in October.

[poconopundit]

Kaslin and everyone,

Another fine psychoanalysis of Trump's "very stable genius" tweet is given by master persuader, Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert cartoons.

Insightful and a fun listen-to, Youtube, 35 minutes long.