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Sunday, August 13, 2017

Be afraid people

"The fabled “Trump Generals” are urging one approach, while the hard-right ideologues led by senior adviser Steve Bannon are arguing the opposite.
Meanwhile, President Trump plays golf, tweets and ad-libs.
No, this has not been a good week in the history of the world."


Sleep easy as Donald Trump tweets from the bunker? Not me: Burman

As long as Donald Trump imitates North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in sounding and acting like a schoolyard bully, this latest crisis may indeed spiral out of control.
This is what we feared all along, isn’t it? An uninformed, insecure U.S. president, his hand not far from the nuclear codes, stumbling into a potential world crisis like — as he would put it — “the world has never seen.”
Well, strap in. As long as Donald Trump imitates North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in sounding and acting like a schoolyard bully, this latest crisis may indeed spiral out of control.
Until now, the risk of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions has united the world. It has been one of the few global threats that have been universally condemned. This has been even more remarkable given how divided and polarized the world is on virtually every other major international issue.
But North Korea’s nuclear threat is different. Not only has it been on the global agenda for years, most analysts agree there is absolutely no military solution. Stumbling into a military conflict — likely a nuclear crisis — would result in hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of casualties.
There is very little international disagreement about this. The impasse has been staring everyone in the face for years. Like it or not, the only conceivable solution is a diplomatic one, most notably the freezing of North Korea’s nuclear program.

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