This all seems like high stakes poker to me.
Some of the premises from trump twitter on down seem unlikely to me (nobody that i admittedly am, though whatever).
I am just jumping in to ask if anyone has considered that this is all hifhly choreographed such that it forms an effective defense agaist nk agression?
What i mean is that it seems like only a week or two ago that the hot button issue was that north korea was going to launch icbms against alaska.
Trumps national policy ideally should be running itself. That way trump can concentrate on sillymatter such avoiding thermonuclear war. If he does not do ot, who will? Schumer? Mccain? Nyt editors? Blm? Huffpo editors??
Really from this baby boomer perspective the entire country has lost focus on the basic things that really matter.
Tjat is why i am wondering if this is all a gigantic head fake. What if the real purpose is not domestic but something to convince nk that trump would be willing to push the big red button to provide a unifying factor to the us public mich like past wars such as 1898, 1917 and 1941?
Outlandish as it seems i think it imight be worthy of of consideration only because we seem to be living in interesting times. Sorry if the notion is redundant with a recipus response.
You raise an interesting angle, well done. Credibly act "Trump the crazy man" to deter NK.
In order to be effective, he has to more or less "keep it up." Not continuously, but frequently enough and big enough to make the news.
IT has a cost though. Not sure exactly what the cost is, but it has a cost.