like this. It is genuinely the comedy of errors you see in the vid.
B. You didn't stand up to usher out your kids, bc you weren't wearing pants.
I have no dignity left🤦♂️. I remained seated, bc the show must go on. I'd done enough TV by then to know that.
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Pic: James at Xmas
You just have to push through. I also thought the interviewer, @BBCJamesM, or the producers, might end it. (We are very grateful to James for handling it all with such aplomb.) And also, it all happened so fast, I didn't really know what to do. But yes, I do wear
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Pic: Marion
pants when I do news hits. *sigh*
C. What are your kids up to?
Marion is 8 and in second grade. James is 4.5 and in kindergarten.
D. Do your kids know they are famous?
James is too young, but Marion is starting to realize it, bc her friends & classmates
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Pic: Jung-A (Xmas)
mention it. We don't talk about it much with her, bc she is still too young to process that sort of global recognition.
E. What has changed the most since the video?
The loss of anonymity. People recognize us in
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Pic: James and I playing a matching game bf I go running
airports, restaurants, on the street. It's kinda weird when random people approach you and ask, 'hey, are you that guy?' and the answer is yes. But since it's usually positive and genuine, it's ok.
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Pic: This is from Korean media at the time.The kids are cute; me...not so much
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1. Trump is too lazy & clownish for a project as large & serious as a major war
Once it became clear that a strategic victory required ground combat, he got cold feet. If he had read anything about US wars in the M East or had
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insisted on a proper policy process beforehand,he might have learned that. He didn’t, bc work bores him & he doesn’t read. So he trusted Netanyahu & his own gut
This is very similar to Trump’s refusal to prep or learn bf meeting Kim Jong-Un. Trump winged it thru those de-nuke
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talks, which is a big reason why nothing came of them
2. America learned the limits of airpower - again
This is not new, & if Trump had done his prep & wasn’t so incurious, he probably would have asked his advisors if this would work now, where it had not in the past, & what
2. Trump doesn’t actually care about the details of SK investment; he just wants to market it as a ‘win’ on Fox
So the S Koreans are stuck with whatever thrown-together ‘framework’ emerges from the disorganized, competing interests within the Trump administration
3. The US
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visa system has been a mess for decades, and xenophobic MAGA wants it that way
So the SKs don’t know how to get in the needed work-force to operationalize Trump’s deal. They end up getting arrested, bc Trump’s gov't is a disunified, disorganized mess which can't prioritize or
fundamentalists in the M East rather than US general interest
- undermines NATO which has kept the peace for 80 years in a core area of US FoPo interest
- believes autocracies like Russia or N Korea are credible counterparties
- rejects alliances which supplement US power
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& enable US global power projection
- thinks trade wars with allies enhance US power
- is guided in foreign policy by his own ego quirks - loathing for Zelensky & female leaders, admiration for dictators - rather than US national interests
running, deep-seated hatred for UKR independence, it is hard to believe this whole thing actually turned on a far-away event 16 months earlier: the 2020 US election. Indeed, the belief that the whole world turns on US decisions is a particular American hubris, probably derived
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from our long-running superpowerdom. But it is not true. Other countries have agency independent of us, especially great powers like RU.
2. Vance and MAGA did not know that UKR had no pathway to victory for the last 3 years
This is lazy retrodiction – using contemporary info