@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox By “tone-deafness” I didn’t mean your understanding that “Kim Jong-un “does not intend to negotiate those capabilities away at any price.”” I agree totally with Jenny Town: “…the external message was clear: North Korea is not waiting to see if its relations with the United
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 2/"States will improve, but will continue to advance its military development until it does, regardless of how difficult that may be.”
I meant rather an “insensitivity or lack of perception” w/ regard to the “price” that I believe the DPRK is actually willing to pay. Jenny Town
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 3/"sums it up perfectly: “The tools and steps needed to slow or stop a moving train are not the same as those needed to keep the train parked at the station. As such, the United States needs a new approach that works to curb North Korea’s advancement and buildup of its nuclear
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 4/"capabilities in the short term, but simultaneously works to build the kind of relationship it would take to eventually get Pyongyang to the end of the nuclear disarmament road.”
Yes, how can DC "slow or stop a moving train"? I'll cite quotes by Kim Yo-jong and Cho Son-hui
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 5/that may indicate how the DPRK might be willing to slow down their nuclear/ICBM/SLBM train to a full halt. Yet analysts, strategists & diplomats seem to all agree w/ the 2nd half of your statement that evinced my "tone-deaf" remark: "...and then develop a policy to convince
How can one, after listening to the following remarks by Kim Yo-jong and Choe Son-hui, fail to understand that DPRK might be willing to negotiate DOWN their nuclear arsenal, to "fully stop the train", but there's no way they'll relinquish
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 7/their entire nuclear deterrence? That's where "tone-deafness" enters. They need nukes to survive. This isn't just about the US. What I see in the following remarks is DPRK's top leadership suggesting they'll "stop the train" - IF AND ONLY IF the US acknowledges a nuclear DPRK.
"DPRK's nuclear weapons are non-negotiable, unless the U.S. is prepared to co-exist with the nuclear DPRK. Because this is the only way to ensure lasting peace on the Korean peninsula and stability and security in the North East Asia.
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@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 11/Someone who's "tone-deaf" - not you - is Long who said: “The U.S. simply must pursue its own interests and use military force to show Kim Jung-un he faces consequences for his actions, Long concluded: “What speaks louder than words? Action. The alliances have failed to take a
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 12/"single military action in response to any of North Korea’s provocations. What does that tell you about (our) credibility?” Why? That perspective belies that it's all about the US. I.e. forget about the DPRK. Such an attitude has pushed Pyongyang to keep its train rolling on
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 13/the track b/c when a technical adversary still at war, such a "hostile" belligerent policy warrants that DPRK make sure it has the nuclear deterrence to stop the US from taking just such a military action. If the most powerful superpower on the planet is telling the world: "We
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 14/"might have to use military force on DPRK to send them a message", you have a "tone-deaf" superpower.
So the gist of it is that to negotiate successfully w/ DPRK - this year - 2020 going into 2021 - is to be willing to meet them halfway. This idea:
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 15/If Washington isn't willing to meet DPRK halfway then forget about Peace on the Korean Peninsula. War would probably reignite before that. It makes no sense. The US is infinitely more powerful than DPRK, which states it's nuclear deterrence is just to protect themselves, but
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 16/is DC so paranoid it has to resort to a military attack? Which could devolve in a split second into Korean War (The Nuclear Sequel) and cost 10 million lives? It's irrational, not logical and delusional. So to not be "tone-deaf" is to FACTOR IN DPRK's leadership remarks 👆
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 17/in a joint US-DPRK effort to draft "a new approach that works to curb North Korea’s advancement and buildup of its nuclear capabilities in the short term,...".
I think Kim Jong-un might sign the above Glass Half-Full deal b/c they seem to be willing to "stop the train" - as
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 18/as they keep the train. The conventional angle seems to be that the goal in the end is DPRK giving up all its nukes. The point of departure for me is acknowledging this point (which Henri Feron takes too): North Korea is never going to relinquish all their nukes. No "shrimp
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 19/among whales" would. The unwillingness for Washington to budge from what has de facto been a failed policy is imo the epitome of "tone-deafness". The ball is in the US's court, all players are watching what we do. DPRK has basically said: "We're riding our train until you
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 20/you make a juicy offer. If you let us keep what we have, the train stops. For good."
So these are hypotheticals, but I'd think logic should be a tool used by analysts. From one point it's a logic problem. The US want's the empty glass which DPRK will never agree to. DPRK is
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 21/approaching a full glass which the US will never tolerate w/out changing its calculus. There's only one way to cut this Gordian knot and that's for each to abandon what they want and go for what they need. It's called compromise. If it can lead to Peace why would it be wrong?
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 22/In summary by "accepting" a nuclear DPRK in a deal signed by Trump and Kim, the Korean War ends, peacetime comes to the Korean Peninsula, sanctions are lifted, economic prosperity will come to North Korea and stability to Northeast Asia. Is that against Washington's policy?
@Mister_G_2@AlexWardVox 23/There's also something else that's lost on many - The fact that more North Koreans actually love their country and "Respected Supreme Leader" than is believed. They are people just like us who want to live securely in peace having economic prosperity.
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2/This reads like a crime family: “I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard. But don’t worry unlike Pop I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
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"A senior federal law enforcement official told Just the News on
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"Tuesday night that the FBI is in possession of the laptop and that the bureau concurs with Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe's assessment that the laptop is not part of Russian intelligence operation, as some Democrats have alleged."
3/A senior federal law enforcement official just burst the Democrats collective bubble. That could explain why there's a deafening sound of crickets from the Biden camp. The Biden's can lie themselves out of a paper bag, but not out of criminal evidence.
It's obvious that when people like Markus Garlauskas & others echo the Cold War sentiment that "a nuclear DPRK is unacceptable", they've become ostriches denying reality and gluttons for punishment. DC will bang its head against the wall pushing CVID/FFVD until
@henriferon 3/conflict breaks out [DC, paranoid of DPRK's growing nuclear capability, decides on a military first strike, igniting what could become Korean War 2.0 (The Nuclear Sequel) costing, oh...10 million lives or so] or the Moon hits Earth, whichever happens first. From a problem-
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“Revolver: What is the most incriminating thing on the hard drive? Rudy has suggested illegal things, and as Revolver
2/"reported the FBI person tasked with the hard drive is associated with the child pornography division. Could you give more insight into how bad it is we’re talking about?
Mr. Bannon: Joe Biden is a liar, a fraud, and compromised by Chinese cash. In short, he is a national
3/"security crisis. The hard drive combines emails and text messages that show a massive involvement with companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Also, there are 25,000 images that show a drug-addled, depraved lifestyle — one that decent hardworking Americans will
I've stumbled across a truth that's worth repeating. It's what Malcolm X said about the "White liberal". For any American who is Black, answer this question:
"Who do you trust more? Malcolm X or Joe Biden?"
I cannot answer that question. Only you can. Answer it well.
2/Joe Biden said: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black”.
Malcom X would disagree. mtdemocrat.com/letters/we-sho…
“The white liberals, who have been posing as our friends, have failed us. The white liberal is the worst enemy to America
3/"and the worst enemy to the black man.”
“White liberals are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the black man as our ‘friend’ to get our sympathy, our allegiance and our minds. The white liberal attempts to use us politically against white conservatives,
2/“Administration. From 2005 to 2016 he was a litigation partner with the law firm King & Spalding...
"We have no information that indicates that Ukraine interfered with the 2016 presidential election" and "as far as the [2020] election itself goes, we think Russia represents
3/“the most significant threat." This led Trump to criticize Wray the following day, claiming that Wray would "never be able to fix the FBI."”