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THREAD on Trump’s Rant about the S Korean President calling Him, Correctly, a 'Failure' in the NYT
1. Moon Jae-In indeed throws T under the bus in the Times
Moon & his advisors quickly realized that T, like Fredo, was weak & stupid & wanted respect. M deluded T with visions
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1. Moon Jae-In indeed throws T under the bus in the Times
Moon & his advisors quickly realized that T, like Fredo, was weak & stupid & wanted respect. M deluded T with visions
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of a Nobel Prize if he met the NK leader Kim Jong Un. M wanted that meeting, bc the SK left has long thought an apex summit was the best way to side-step the hawkish-on-NK US foreign policy community. All spring 2018, that hawkish FPC community indeed told T not meet KJU; T
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didn’t listen to us of course; and then made a colossal hash out of negotiations, bc he is an idiot: https://twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1384962719468638209. M then called T a failure last week. Harsh
2. T’s response illustrates yet again that he is totally unfit for public office
It’s petty, mean-spirited
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2. T’s response illustrates yet again that he is totally unfit for public office
It’s petty, mean-spirited
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unnecessary, and filled w/ inaccuracies:
a) SKs are not laughing all the way to the bank. They’re just happy T is gone, like everyone else
b) T did not prevent NK aggression. Peninsular deterrence is stable over decades now. T had no impact on that.
c) T did not get a great
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a) SKs are not laughing all the way to the bank. They’re just happy T is gone, like everyone else
b) T did not prevent NK aggression. Peninsular deterrence is stable over decades now. T had no impact on that.
c) T did not get a great
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agreement with SK on USFK payment. Yes, T demanded a lot, but the ROKG held out until he left office, & there will likely be a more normal deal now.
d) T’s renegotiation of the Korea-US trade deal was minor.The big change was pushing back a few more years when SK could export
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d) T’s renegotiation of the Korea-US trade deal was minor.The big change was pushing back a few more years when SK could export
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light trucks to the US, which is only a ‘far better’ if you think a free trade deal should be more protectionist
3. M should not have manipulated T
I’ve little sympathy for T getting conned, as he conned so many others his whole life, but this SK gov't really played him like
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3. M should not have manipulated T
I’ve little sympathy for T getting conned, as he conned so many others his whole life, but this SK gov't really played him like
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a useful idiot for its own goals. Those goals – a major concessionary détente with NK – are not shared by most of the US FPC. Even the Democrats were attacking T from the right over NK. Yet M exploited T’s stupidity & weakness to push him into summit he was grossly unqualified
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for. Moon should not have done that. And I bet Biden will keep his distance now from Moon bc of this. Moon’s ‘Trump whispering’ will create bad blood in the US over SK as an ally and was a serious mistake.
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