StarOcean said:
Yes, 100%.
First off, do not legitimize them. That’s one of the stupidest things that could be done. Second, Trump should have absolutely no direct talks with Un. He’s too easily manipulated. The Chinese and Russians will be there so it is vital we have experienced individuals go. This admin has none of that. The entire thing puts the US at a disadvantage. Un should be heading to DC, not the other way around. It needs to be 100% public as well. A solution would be to either sanction it until death or to sign a similar agreement that the US made with Cuba that we agree not to invade them in exchange for them to cut their nuclear program. Keep in mind the latter was largely a compromise after the US failed in the Bay of Pigs invasion. So the latter would not be preferable. |
And embargoing Cuba was the dumbest decision is the history of decisions. Cuba didn't give in and so far, they've only reformed because since they want to ready for an actual transfer of power and see if they can pull a China. Also, their living standards did keep rising, though they still underperformed.
As Lavrov once said, North Koreans would sooner eat grass than give up their nukes. Welcome to realpolitik, where your geopolitical street cred is worth jack to people because they have actual ways of telling you "no" to your face no matter how much of a tantrum you make and make all potential alternatives undesirable unless you act like the morally superior country or just agree to disagree and go on detente, where you agree to disagree and make some concessions without giving everything up... and containment, where you just tell them it's business as usual and we go back to our scheduled programming of drills and missile launches.
Unless you don't mind seeing men in suits strangling each other monthly, I wouldn't advocate containment... There's a reason Reagan needed to change to a policy of rollback and fight back, and he was able to do so only after detente, which gave us Gorbachev, who was retarded and didn't see he was being toyed with. Unless someone replaces Kim, rollback isn't viable...
If Trump wants to do something to cement himself as a good president, he should sign a non aggression pact and go back to the usual 'I can't hear you' status they had before their relations broke down circa five years ago.
I am sure negotiating drills around the Liancourt rocks is doable... China is far more reasonable in this regard and South Korea administers them anyways.
