Kim and North Korea ate Trump's lunch
Let's get something straight, talking is better than going to war, but being played for a fool gives no country an advantage.
Sure, it would have been fine for discussions to be held at lower levels than the executive, leader level. Trump has given a murderous dictator, Kim Jong Un credibility and a platform. In return, the United States has received nothing. Sure, there is a halt in public testing, but all reports are that the whole nuclear program continues to advance.
Sanctions are worthless, unless all other countries participate. Russia is supplying North Korea with all the fuel it needs to overcome sanctions by the US. China is supplying all the food. Reports out of North Korea suggest that gas and rice prices are actually going down. It is very difficult for the United States to ask our allies, or especially our adversaries, to honor sanctions when the moron in the White House is saying publicly what a great leader Kim is and that he has "fallen in love" with him. (Wow, that's a strange one. What do you think Fox news would be saying if Obama or Hillary ever said that?).
As a parting gift to the little dictator of North Korea, Trump absolved Kim of the murder of Otto Warmbier. Trump tells the world that Kim had "nothing to do with Warmbier's death". Are you fucking kidding me?
By the way, we could have easily have traded the end of the joint military exercises for a halt in testing at any time, and it would not have needed to get to the executive level. That's the only deal that's been made so far. The elevation of Kim to the "family of nations" is a gift, with nothing in return.
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