Posted on 04/19/2018 9:24:56 PM PDT by bitt
President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that he would walk away from his upcoming summit with Kim Jong Un if it wasn’t going to be ‘fruitful.’
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has expressed its commitment to "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula and is not seeking conditions, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday, as the United States vowed to maintain "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang.
Moon said big-picture agreements about denuclearization, establishing a peace regime and normalization of relations between the two Koreas and the United States should not be difficult to reach through summits between the North and South, and between the North and the United States.
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Even Swishy Lindsay Graham was slinging compliments Trump’s way.
“President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that he would walk away from his upcoming summit with Kim Jong Un if it wasn’t going to be ‘fruitful.’ “
He will not go unless the deal has already been done. If Trump goes it is a win.
Oddly Reagan did the same with Gorbachev at Rejivek in Iceland. It did not turn out as anticipated and Regan just went home and instead destroyed the Soviet Union via economic dominance and a military that none would challenge. He destroyed the Soviet Union and Bush, Clinton , the second Bush and then the appeaser Obama screwed up their demise.
Today Russia is a very potent enemy militarily. It is a basket case economically. Their GDP is about the same as Italy. I welcome an arms race as they can not compete. A true arms race is their demise. The economy of the West will prevail and they will collapse economical as they did in the last arms race.
China is the one to fear. China has a vibrant free market economy, they just pretend to be communist but use free enterprise to fund an imperialistic dictatorial expansionists nation.
Outside of their nuclear arsenal, the Russian military is a mere shadow of its Cold War self. They have some shiny weapon systems, but what we are never told is the stark truth that they have very few of the platforms - very few. The majority of their military remains several generations behind our current force. They have no counter to our latest weapons and we have a huge numerical advantage in modern weapons.
They are a gas station with nukes. There are states here in the US that have a bigger economy than their entire nation. Putin and his friends are becoming extremely rich, but the rest of their country and their “tax base” is falling further behind us every year.
Forgot to add this: Russia’s economy is totally dependent on the export of oil and gas of which they have much. The Saudis turned on their oil production to the maximum which drove down oil prices and was a short term negative to Saudi but destroyed the economics of the Soviet Union which at the time was the number one producer of oil in the world.
The Soviet Union then collapsed, due to the fact they became an economic disaster. When they collapsed the Western Nations in their extreme ignorance did not embrace the Soviet Union but ignored them as no longer relevant. They are very relevant today militarily and economically of little importance.
“China is the one to fear. China has a vibrant free market economy, they just pretend to be communist but use free enterprise to fund an imperialistic dictatorial expansionists nation.”
Too easy. Clinton made motions of trusted a Kim and that’s no small part of why we’re here.
We will have to see if this really goes all the way, but it is hopeful news. None of this would have happened without POTUS Trump, of course. But we shouldn’t expect N. Korea to really cooperate easily and fully. Unless they are completely terrified of Trump (always a good possibility), they are probably looking to wheel and deal at SOME point.
Remember Hans Brix. Yes, step croser...
In other words: “We are completely broke. We can’t keep up the facade any longer, especially when you don’t give us money. We need to make peace so we can live in exile with our stolen billions in Southern France. Otherwise, the people here will eat us.”
Trust, but verify.
She said she went with several members of the House Intel Committee and it was “many years ago” — I doubt that this is revealing anything classified, but we’ll see what happens now. What she relates of the exchanges in Pyongyang does not, on the face of it, sound classified at all. The most she reports is that they sell missile technology. That was never a secret. We have known that for many years.
Sounds like something from the plot of a really, really wacked out sci-fi novel - and it’s no more likely to be true.
Was Pelosi actually in NK recently as she claims? I want proof. The idiot can barely put two sentences together these days...
Not recently, she said “many years ago” on a trip with several other House Intel Committee members.
This is a big nothing. “Highest level of intel”???? HA HA, Q is a joke.
Plant story...TRUMP won’t be fooled by this hype.
Russia doesn’t really need to beat us in an arms race, which Putin has already ceded they can’t and won’t. It is far cheaper to field the innovative nuclear weapons he showcased, which could be far more dangerous if that becomes their go to for defense. I honestly don’t think Russia wants a war, but rightly fears a CIA backed coup attempt and further interference with their internal politics and allies.
Sounds almost too good to be true.
No one trusts that fat little bastard
Sure......
um...so why don’t they just start now ?
Saw on Facebook that we took out 200 of their engineers in that strike with directed energy weapons. That was no nuclear test or earthquake.
I searched for it but could not find. But remember Trump was saying threatening things before that happened. And no longer is.
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