I don’t customarily post things like this, but the spirit moves me. As one who lives with loved ones a military stone’s throw from North Korea, I’m spinning with amazement at Trump’s behavior in and after his meeting with Kim Jong Un. His fawning praise of possibly the most savage despot on Earth just days after falsely accusing Canadian PM Trudeau of treachery is beyond appalling.

Listen, this really isn’t about left-vs.-right. It’s about the world’s only superpower being run by a soulless nitwit.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-kim-and-the-boys-in-the-camps/

‘What’s really disconcerting is that Trump announced unilaterally to the leader of North Korea that the United States is going to stop military exercises with our allies, without first telling our allies or even the Pentagon. That’s astonishing,” said Michael Green, a senior vice president for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a former senior director for Asia on the National Security Council. “Then Trump says he’d like to pull U.S. troops out of Asia, which is a real heart-warming development for Beijing and Moscow, who want nothing more than to weaken and eventually unravel our alliances. So this is a pretty stunning development.”’

‘Retired four-star Gen. Barry McCaffrey is the former chief of U.S. Southern Command. “I believe it was entirely inappropriate for President Trump — who has no understanding of nuclear weapons and strategic alliances and was completely unprepared — to meet alone with the North Korean dictator without so much as a note-taker present,” he told Yahoo News in an interview. “I’m very concerned that Trump signaled that if Kim gives up his nuclear weapons, then the United States will withdraw our troops from South Korea. Once you start that process it’s a one-way street of retreat from the Pacific Rim, which would leave our allies to confront a belligerent North Korea and an aggressive and massively armed China alone.”’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-astonishing-concession-kim-jong-un-north-korea-190814681.html

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