…It’s still a basket case even with oil prices high. Just keeps getting worse. Considering the people just take it and won’t rise up it reminds me of Kanye’s “volunteer” line.
I’ve been skeptical of him from the beginning. This is the standard operating procedure for Kim’s in NK. I was, and still am, hopefully optimistic this time would be different. But I am not so sure this was not merely a play to get China more friendly and back in a stronger alliance with NK. They can blame their decision on our aggression and hostilities, and save face with Xi, who will now likely back the NK regime if there were any sort of shooting from us.
If they do truly walk away from the negotiating table, then Kim will have shown he outplayed Trump on this one. When China started to walk away from NK, that really isolated them. But now, China is back fully supporting them, while also receiving huge concessions from us in trade negotiations. Trump looks like he is getting worked over and made the fool on multiple fronts here. Perhaps things will change though. We shall see.
There seems to be almost a rhythm with these guys.
Step 1 - they become threatening, talk about starting wars
step 2 - US slaps on sanctions
Step 3 - they become conciliatory, play nice
Step 4 - sanctions get lifted… rinse repeat
There were plenty here that were skeptical of this meeting. Including myself, although I stated I was cautiously optimistic this time could be different.