re: #49 lawhawk

This is how you negotiate with masonry contractors when you want to end up in concrete boots.

Trump thinks that because he’s a real estate guy that everyone responds to his blustering BS the same way.

That’s not how it works in international relations. You make threats like that, you better be prepared to deal with the consequences when your rivals test you.

Jong Un has already tested Trump and found Trump wanting. Those red lines quickly were erased as North Korea has fired not only missiles across Japan’s bow, but has fired a nuke far larger than anything they’ve done in the past - by a wide margin.

Jong Un knows how to play crazy. Trump is crazy.

Like I said the other day over Donny’s insistence that America will leave the Paris Agreement unless the other nations “make it more fair” for the US, the man still thinks he’s a CEO who can bully others into getting his way because he has the position of power. He has totally overestimated America’s power on the modern stage, thinking that it’s still 1955 and we can slap around anybody who won’t play by our rules. But the reality is that we’re a superpower in decline, the end of the Cold War revealing the rot and collapse in the foundations. The only reason we still receive as much respect as we do is because we have enough nuclear weapons to wipe out human civilization several times over. Without those, we’d be another regional power whose demands would be given as much consideration as Canada’s or Mexico’s.