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THREAD on Trump’s Rant about the S Korean President calling Him, Correctly, a 'Failure' in the NYT1. Moon Jae-In indeed throws T under the bus in the TimesMoon & his

Exactly. This is a language game. To my mind, it’s pretty simple:We should do the best we can to avoid a cold war with China. But we’re not, and neither

THREAD on the Bolton and Woodward books regarding Trump and North Korea. The big, completely predictable, takeaways:1. Trump had no idea what he was doing.Both confirm pretty much what anyone

THREAD: US policing does not have to be this way.At the risk of me overdoing the Korea-philia, besides doing a great job on covid this spring (my thoughts here: https://nationalinterest.org/profile/robert-e-kelly),

Stop saying Trump should give a speech. That’s pre-T centrist naïveté. T doesn’t want to do it; he wants to send the military into the cities. He’ll deliver it in

Thread on the conservative non-response to this week's police tactics: Where is the hard right in all this police over-reaction in the last week? These guys have told us for

Just to be clear, Trump is provoking a cold war w/ China solely to cover his a** on corona. This is rank opportunism, not strategy. There is no Long Telegram

So now that this week's 'Kim Jong Un is on his death bed!' frenzy is over (my contribution to the hysteria: https://twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1252459381188210689), I see 2 reasons why this exploded so

This. Trump is fundamentally deeply lazy, a point not emphasized enough in reporting. His threat to the USG is more disdain & incompetence than fascism. T basically wants to watch

Thread on the South Korean Right's crushing legislative defeat yesterday. This is the third defeat in a row, each getting worse. I wrote 16 mos. ago about the right's implosion

1/ Blame-shifting to the WHO isn’t tough to figure out: 1. It’s an international organization, which Americans are generally cool to and conservatives fervently hate2. It’s weak. Blaming the governors