Posted on 03/08/2022 7:39:52 PM PST by Nextrush
"...I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful than his, and my Button works!"
President Donald J. Trump's Response To 'Rocket Man" Kim Jong-Un's Statement About Having A Nuclear Button At His Desk-January 3, 2018
When Donald Trump was in the White House Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin knew where the US stood.
Trump met face to face with both leaders to send them a direct message about the good possibilities for relations with the United States and the bad possibilities.
And when Trump wasn't meeting them he sent the message in other ways including the maximizing of US energy production to make any Russian energy irrelevant to American consumers at the gas pumps and otherwise.
The week Israel's warning about a nuclear Iran in the face of a new nuclear deal with the US and other nations reminds us that nations possessing nuclear weapons create a challenge for nations who are their adversaries.
For the US to deal with nations like North Korea and China and Russia sanctions become one option to deal with them because armed conflict brings the risk of nuclear weapons being used.
There is of course the other option of negotiations or talking which Joe Biden has clearly ruled out with Russia at this time.
Before things could anywhere near this bad with Russia over Ukraine Donald Trump kept the lines of communication open with Russia even as some sanctions were imposed against it during his presidency.
Trump went face to face with Putin on more than one occasion.
And he was willing to meet Kim Jong-Un multiple times as well alongside the sanctions in force against North Korea.
In the tradition of Ronald Reagan outproducing the Soviet Union in military weaponry and bringing the Cold War to...
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He canâÂÂt really do much from a Florida country club.
Too bad he isn’t in the White House.
Donald Trump is not longer president or CIC. What does anyone expect the man to do?
I want to take note of what we are missing with DJT out of the White House.
Donald Trump is not longer president or CIC. What does anyone expect the man to do?
Lead. We can’t have a MAGA movement were the loudest voices are Putin apologists and Oliver Stone loving cranks. That will marginalize MAGA and lead to certain electoral defeat.
We’re missing our country.
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