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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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
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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But my response to your second point addresses that. You can't just roll back the tape on international sanctions, as we're seeing with Iran. These things have momentum
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Lamenting? Perhaps it's an attachment to the status quo? Or perhaps attachment to a process that has been lacking in general from this admin? That said, I don't know what to make of this: https://politicalwire.com/2018/06/12/pentagon-was-not-aware-of-trumps-concession-either/ …
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