1. because words without verification are just words 2. international legitimacy matters in incremental diplomacy--caveat, incremental being the key word, and this might not be 3. status quo departures are news
1. why are we pretending nk didn’t promise denuclearization 2. why are we pretending trump won’t just go back on his promises if kim doesn’t deliver 3. why is the media obsessed with war games specifically designed to antagonize a hostile rogue nation with nuclear weaponshttps://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1006547358363070464 …
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i answered your first point with my second - you literally had to have read it to get to my third. and the media isn’t just covering the end of the korean war games, they are lamenting it.
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The reason for the spectacle might simply be that the political classes in the US and Europe freak out that a president of the West is not one of them. It might well be an issue of social class, not that he’s worse than Bush/Cheney.
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I think there’s some truth to this, but one side effect is a genuine disregard for convention (attacks on the press, financial ethics) and predictability (Iran deal, g7, nato, nafta, DACA, etc). Class plays a role, but policy, substance, and predictability matter as well.
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the fakest of news is just about randomly selecting a thing you had high confidence in and changing it
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With verification to be negotiated at a future date, though. Yes, I think style matters. If Obama had reached such an agreement we’d all have given it benefit of the doubt. But, like, benefit of the doubt is earned by not being an asshat, right?
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