1. This is worrisome.https://twitter.com/fravel/status/965295130470207489 …
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6. Tillerson is a toadstool & State Dept is in disarray. USA has no ambassador in South Korea. Trump leans heavily on military men who, whatever other qualities they have, are not diplomats. In a stand off, things could get hairy.
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7. My guess is South Korean gov'ts rift with USA & openness to talks with North Korea is fuelled in part by wanting to stave off worst case scenario & to compensate for weakness of USA diplomacy.
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8. But aside from South Korean gov't, one other body can act as a check on Trump's blundering: congress.
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9. Obviously GOP congress hasn't been doing a great job of checking Trump (although Corker's WWIII warnings a sign that even some of them are concerned).
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10. If Dems win in fall, especially if (unlikely but possible) they win Senate, they can offer a real check to Trump's foreign policy.
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11. Congress actually has a lot of potential power to hamstring a president. Since Pearl Harbor it has been reluctant to use that. This might be the moment to challenge the imperial presidency.
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Or that Trump just decides to do it. He's sounding kind of shaky today.
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*an imminent Also shut up, you're an idiot!
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Not even weak. Actively disdainful of diplomacy as a concept. We have a diplomatic apparatus under Trump that actively discards and subverts the idea of "diplomacy"
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As the heat turns up on Trump, he WILL use any and all distractions afforded to him to preserve himself and extend his presidency at all costs, including the senseless deaths of millions of people on the Korean Peninsula and abroad.
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