Several American sites are noting that Trump's tweet re North Korea:
While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to
help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China
tried!
is dangerously ambiguous.
As New York Magazine writes:
But
if Trump’s tweet is just mindless bluster, that hardly makes it less
unnerving. In their joint military exercises, the United States and
South Korea have rehearsed preemptive strikes against North Korea, ones
designed to kill Kim Jong-un before he has a chance to press the
proverbial button. Arms-control expert Jeffrey Lewis
has warned that the implication of these exercises aren’t lost on Pyongyang: Kim knows “he has to go first, if he is to go at all.”
Just
because savvy news consumers in the United States are comfortable
assuming that Trump is merely talking trash doesn’t mean that North
Korea is. In April, the president suggested that the day Beijing’s
efforts to rein in Pyongyang failed would be the day that America took
action against Kim Jong-un’s regime.
“Well if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. That is all I am telling you,” Trump
told the
Financial Times.
The
fact that the American president is an emotionally volatile reality
star — who publishes his foreign-policy musings directly to the internet
— has always been dangerous. In the context of a military standoff with
a nuclear-weapons state, it may prove fatally so.
They are right - and you would have to be completely foolish (as Trump supporters are) not to see the impropriety and danger in this idiot President tweeting to the world.
He still tweets to boost Trump brand than as a President.
ReplyDeleteHe has not learnt at all what to do as President and it is unlikely at 71 he ever will.
His lack of any self awareness is unbelievable.
It is no wonder the USA no longer commands respect in the world.