spitefullyemployed: ysr715:socialjust-ish:misandryisalie:concentrated-sunshine:thegreatklaid
spitefullyemployed: ysr715: socialjust-ish: misandryisalie: concentrated-sunshine: thegreatklaid: concentrated-sunshine: pennamites: trytoholdmedown: justsomeantifas: wow transcription [BREAKING NEWS: North and South Korea will sign a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War later this year, 65 years after hostilities ceasedcnn.it/2Jz4CIr ] 4/27/18 Whoa. History in the making Huh, are you saying Trump has managed in a year and a half what the last 11(?) president have failed to do? Well that’s fucking curious I don’t see his name on this. I don’t think it can be his result My understanding was that US Foreign policy was something the Office of the President was responsible for setting out and achieving?If that is correct this would be Trumps success unless this all secretly began under Obama? This is not an American success. The Secretary of State was appointed either yesterday or the day before, the state department is in shambles. No reports indicate any major US officials being in the room. This is a Korean victory that is independent from the US, and is certainly not a Trump victory, who has done more to escalate tensions between the US and North Korea than the past four previous presidents. Trump supporters hearing about foreign policy successes not made by the US: If anything the us were trying to stop it okay. alright. allow me to go all ‘international relations’ degree for a moment, if I may. This is a decision that likely happened because ROK felt the US could no longer protect them from the DPRK. This is because Trump has no consistent Secretary of State, and while Tillerson was Not Great, Mike Pompeo is literally Satan, so. Negotiations with the DPRK have always been tri-lats with the US, ROK, and the DPRK, often involving another western power, and it is ALWAYS first and foremost about what the US can get out of it, how can we isolate the DPRK, how can we make them bow to what we want, which is nuclear disarmament. IDK if any of Y’all know realist theory, but that AINT GONNA HAPPEN, because the US doesn’t know how to MIND ITS OWN FUCKING BUSINESS, and has created a unipolar international system, with itself at the top. it’s why China freaks US policy makers right the fuck out. Any perceived threat is then blown WAY out of proportion. Yeah, Bush called the DPRK part of the ‘axis of evil’ but that was more to use language to make the US population hate Iraq the same amount as the DPRK. it’s also a HUGE chip on the US’s shoulder that they were so fucking box kicked in the Korean War, which we shouldn’t have gotten involved in. This decision and agreement between ROK and the DPRK is happening because Trump is So Shit at his job. He isn’t consistent, he has constantly removed us from international agreements that were designed to protect us and the other partners from international threats, we might be coming out of the Iran deal which Iran is following the rules of better than we are right now, and he doesn’t like NATO. President Moon is looking at that, and like a SMART FUCKING PRESIDENT, is going ‘hmmmmm the protection we were supposed to have from the US could be instantly taken away from us if we anger this ignoramus who is the president, might want to try something else’ and so reached out to Kim. Kim probably is thinking ‘holy fuck, an actual international win, people will think about this, instead of the literally gulags i run’ and so is getting involved. the US did LITERALLY NOTHING to facilitate this, and actually, in terms of foreign policy, is Not Great for the US, because we like to think we’re the international police force, and this effectively proves we are ‘weak’ (i personally fuckin disagree with that, but whatever). This is fantastic, and is an incredible part of world history, but saying it’s a ‘win’ for the US is just fuckin stupid. -- source link