Donald Trump’s combative rhetoric has helped North Korea crisis: Julie Bishop
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has backed US President Donald Trump’s combative rhetoric against North Korea, crediting him with bringing China to the negotiating table.
Donald Trump’s combative rhetoric has helped North Korea crisis: Julie Bishop
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has backed US President Donald Trump’s combative rhetoric against North Korea, crediting him with bringing China to the negotiating table.
And what’s really sad … is that it is OBVIOUS!!!! … to even the casual observer that President Trump’s calculated threats have MOVED China beyond their usual silence. Trump has maneuvered China into a making a public declaration of inaction in response to an American attack on NKOR. What did SHE accomplish ? Or John Fitzgerald Kerry ? Nada … just stood by and did … nothing.
And the faux outrage over Trump’s “bellicose” treatment of NKOR’s certifyably insane chubby dictator almost suggests that the Diplomatic Industrial Complex doesn’t actually WANT anything to change. That the Diplomats don’t want to END the (very real) Nuclear threat posed by NKOR … because they would be unemployed. It’s almost like all those conspiracy theorists who believe there is a CURE for cancer … but Big Pharma is withholding it … so they can sell drugs. I am starting to believe that our “Big” Diplomats are perpetuating the “standoff” with Rocket Man … just to line their pockets with GS-15 (+bonuses) paychecks.
Why not? All those conferences and meetings, complete with nice, comfy hotel rooms, catered meals (no KFC for them, right?), and chauffeured limousine service…. What’s not to like about an international crisis?
I suppose Trump could have sent James Taylor over to North Korea to warble “You’ve got a friend” to Rocket Man. I mean that sends a “powerful” message.
Please. Fox News is basically Trump’s mouthpiece.
If you had the sense to click on the link above, you’d have seen that the news source cited was the Sydney Morning Herald, from Sydney Australia, and not FOX.
*As opposed to the remaining vast majority of media outlets in the USA that gave the previous President a tongue bath and endless fellatio morning noon and night for 8 years.
Not to worry … CNN’s foul orafice and stable of fa&&ot mouthpieces more than counterbalance anything FOX NEWS broadcasts. And you can always watch Shepard Smith …if you are a boy who likes boy’s privates.
http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/cnn-anchor-don-lemon-steps-out-with-boyfriend/
Yawn. China is not the NorK’s major patron. It was and has always been Russia.
The NorKs need fuel oil? Russia who is a major fuel exporter, not the PRC. The NorKs need wheat? Russia exports wheat, not the PRC.
It is not sleight of hand, it is openly in your face and yet you pretend to be blind to reality. WTF?! North Korea is a Russian satellite State.
North Korea is not the PRC’s Frankenstein monster, North Korea is Russia’s Cold War pivotal state, the NorKs are Russia’s pit bull.
Russia pulls the trigger when Putin sees the advantage. Not the PRC. The Russians gave the NorKs nuclear technology, not the PRC.
Who gave the NorKs rocket technology? The Russians did, not the PRC.
Want to solve the problem? The Russians are the source of the problem, not the PRC.
No, I would argue China is North Korea’s benefactor.
But you are correct about Russia.
After all, who helped divide Korea in 1945?
There were rumours a few years ago that IKEA benefitted indirectly from North Korean slave labour. The company bought wood from Russia and, according to the video I saw about the matter, the loggers were prisoners that the NORKs farmed out.
I don’t know much more than that.
So argue that China is North Korea’s benefactor. Please state your argument, because you have not done so thus far other than to say you would argue, but in fact you have not argued or stated any points at all.
Kate McMillan has been gracious giving us this excellent forum to discus these issues at length, and yet real discussion rarely happens.
Here is your chance.(our chance) I have already stated that the Russians have given the NorKs nuclear technology, rocket technology, wheat and fuel oil to keep the NorK economy from disintegrating, and the fact is that North Korea has been a Russian satellite state from it’s inception. Yet you say the PRC, which itself is a product of Russia, is the main benefactor of North Korea?
Please make your case, delineate your premise supporting points, and let us reason together. Perhaps others will join the discussion and we will all learn and be enlightened together, or at least get our yah-yahs out.(really we won’t change the world but at least we might both/all in the exchange understand the issue a little better)
Interesting. I really can’t respond to rumors.
From my personal point of reference I have never purchased anything from IKEA. I did have friends who did buy IKEA products, these products seemed to lack in quality and longevity. In short, the IKEA products they purchased were shoddy and overpriced given the expected product value. As I said, I have never bought any IKEA products but I did see what an acquaintance had bought and the product(s) (bedroom furniture) looked very good at first and then quickly looked shabby. Being of shallow quality(veneer) the furniture could not be renovated and brought up to visual purchase standard or improved. Bottomed line, my friends were very disappointed with their purchase and they weren’t so well off that they could afford this mistake.
I really didn’t or can’t see any connection to my friend’s trouble to Russia or North Korea. Just bad choice on their part.
Personally, I grew up in a household where much of the furniture was Hubbard mahogany. My parents were lower middle class, but they were tight fisted with every dollar and they only ever bought quality stuff.
Dad and Mom were both born in 1922. The were raised during the Depression. They hated debt, they didn’t live in debt(as I and my wife don’t) and they never bought anything they hadn’t saved for first. Neither do we.
The video I saw included interviews with people who, apparently, had first-hand knowledge of what happened. Those interviews were presented in a cloak-and-dagger fashion, making one wonder how much of the material was true.
As for the shoddiness of IKEA’s stuff, I can confirm that. I’ve often found that some of my fellow tenants threw away lamps that were made by the company, many of which were in a state of disrepair. I took some of them, disassembled and cleaned the pieces, and made the useful bits into antenna stands that I can use for my amateur radio station.
Just FYI: We had roast beef for dinner tonight. We cooked it in the first microwave oven that we had ever bought. We researched this oven for two years from library consumer sources before we bought it.(no internet in those days even though we bought our first home PC-IBM 286- for $5000 in 1985) We bought the oven in 1987. The over has an internal space capacity of 2.7 cubic feet. The floor of the oven is porcelain and the walls and ceiling are stainless steel. It is an oven which cooks as a microwave or a convection oven or a combination of the two and when we bought it in 1987 we had to wait for 4 months for it to be shipped to us in Calgary from Chicago Il. after we paid $800 dollars for it. It has a probe that we can put into the meat that measures the internal temp of the meat and it works as perfectly as the day it was delivered with only one service repair in all of those years.
Today we have two other microwave ovens in our kitchen, both inferior to our first buy, and two more in the basement in storage.
We researched this first microwave and we saved up to buy it. That was our way of life then and is still our approach to life today.
We are content and we do nothing with haste or frivolity. We live debt free and we buy most things with our credit card to track our expenditures and use THEIR money freely and pay of all debt as soon as the bills come in.
We have plenty extra money and few investments. What investments we do have are largely in uranium. The returns are very good.
yah Ooz, I researched my first car till the cows come home. I stated my research in 1783 and will buy my first car in the next 20-300 years. Are you really that stupid. I knew you are a bullshitter in large part, butt that post takes the cake……………..
Interesting commentary coming out that China is exploring regime change in NorK and even contemplating reunification. Thoughts that a reunified Korea would be a huge boost to Northern Chinese economy.
From a geopolitical prospective IMHO it has always been China’s priority to hive one of S. Korea, Japan or the Philippines away from USA strategic alliance. Russian meddling in NorK is as much a threat to China as any potential USA involvement. People should not forget that the Chinese and Russians have exchanged artillery fire along their border in the not so distant past.
The South Koreans are in a tough spot. A vocally tough POTUS and a quasi nutbar in NorK. Any armed conflict could kill millions. On the otherhand an alliance with China eliminated a lot of risk and might actually be very good for business! Bottom line can you trust them?
RE: lumber: there’s a VICE doc on Norks being used as basically slaves at Russian lumber operations. It’s crazy. Early VICE was amazing.
Oz makes a really interesting argument. Not sure if I believe it but I am listening.
“has always been Russia.”
bull.
http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB49/index2.html
I hope, truly truly hope, with correct advice the donald has issued an ultra secret directive that American personnel across the globe ready themselves by maintaining constant surveillance of the norks movements and facilities. and have the systems at the ready to splatter them to ye olde kindom come if there is ANY indication kim jong unhinged is about to really ‘do it’.
scaREW the chirese objections,
scaREW the rest of the world’s ‘opinion’.
scaREW the UNhinged.
they all get a 15 minute heads up. that’s it. 15 minutes of ‘keep the fcuk away from this preventive action’
thousands of cruise missiles, hundreds and hundreds of stealth fighters, bombers, MOABS, B52s whutthefcukEVER all at once.