One of the few things Trump cares about is appearing to be respected. If someone close to him can convince him that he's being made a fool of, it might (tho highly unlikely) to elicit reversal.
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It sounds as if Kim was taking lessons from the July 4th Moscow 7's visit to Russia.
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Twin visits, yes. Public humiliation, refused visit with the leader, on both sides.
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Bolton's quietly accumulating 'cred' internally. He doesn't have to say "I told you so" on NK; everyone gets it. Keeping his powder dry for Iran, and not looking to prod any of Trump's sore places. Bolton is, by far, the cagiest and most experienced FP player now in the admin.
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Yup. As I said when he was picked--learned to negotiate bureaucracy from a (perhaps the) master, Cheney.
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And Cheney learned (in Nixon WH) from the undisputed master, Kissinger. Richard Nixon's dead hand still clutches at us.
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Kim Jong Un already forced Trump to exclude Bolton from the summit so I'd say there's already a lot of humiliation getting dished by DPRK.
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And DPRK has already mentioned Trump's predecessors at least twice to argue its case with his admin. Someone knows Trump better than he knows himself.
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It's the first time that I know of a foreign leader trying to use a president's predecessors to argue his case and to directly influence the debate in the White House.
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But surely won’t be the last. Won’t even be the last time this month.
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And what does he do in retaliation?
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Eh. Trump doesn’t care if /others/ are humiliated. They treated /him/ with (what he mistook for) respect.
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Public shaming means something in Asian cultures, NOT so much in western cultures. Soooo the public opinion will vary greatly in different regions.
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Idiot, if you were publicly humiliated you wouldn't need someone to tell you. Only a journalist who's never even negotiated a cheaper cable price would think these shenanigans amount to humiliation.
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/9 In some ways, it's like war. Because the normal inhibitions and limits of young people on killing and property destruction are deliberately reduced, the lines on what is and is not okay are drawn much more sharply and punished severely. Because otherwise you get atrocities.
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I know Bolton wants to bomb everything, but what has he said about Russia. It would comfort me to know he is as tough about Russia and NK.
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