Late last evening juts before going to bed, I read a news report that said that after a meeting with his senior military advisors, Donald “Moron” Trump had ominously told the people present that what they were witnessing was the “calm before the storm”. When asked what he meant, he had added “You’ll find out”. While trying to drop off to sleep, I honestly worried that he was about to launch an attack on North Korea that would unleash unpredictable consequences.
I was relieved to wake up this morning to find that war had not in fact broken out but that he had been referring to withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, which is also very bad but not as immediately catastrophic. It is telling that I, not someone prone to alarmist fantasies, actually feared a war breaking out on the Korean peninsular. This is what the ‘deranged dotard’ who is running this country has brought us to, where the possibility of a war that could turn nuclear is considered a real possibility.
Now there are reports that Trump may have been just ‘trolling the media’ with his ominous remarks. If true, we have a toddler as president, someone who does ot realize that words matter if you are in a position of authority where childish games are not appropriate.
At least there was some good news this morning in that the Nobel peace prize committee has given this year’s award to the group International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) that has been fighting to abolish nuclear weapons.
The chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, said the award to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) had been made in recognition of the group’s work “to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”.
The committee’s choice amounts to a reprimand to the world’s nine nuclear-armed powers, all of whom boycotted negotiations for a treaty banning nuclear weapons – approved at the United Nations in July – and who described the treaty as dangerous.
The treaty was endorsed by 122 countries at the UN headquarters in New York after months of talks. None of the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons – the US, Russia, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel – took part. The treaty will only be enforced when 50 countries have signed and ratified it, a process that could take months or years.
Any glimmer of good news is welcome in these dark days.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/this-years-nobel-peace-prize-winner-called-trump-a-moron-and-isnt-taking-it-back/
Does Trump even consider how his cryptic remarks might be interpreted by Kim Jong Un, who seems more than a little paranoid about US intentions? Does Trump even care?
Mobius@#2:
Does Trump even care?
One must understand, in order to care.
Trump is left-hand on the Bell-curve.
second deviation
chigau, he’s been rich and successful and powerful his whole life, and now he’s in his dotage.
He may have had advantages to start, but he’s done it for decades. And not many people make POTUS.
(There are many facets to intelligence; clearly, manipulating people is one of his strengths)
Too bad he lacks the intelligence to manipulate himself.
Does Trump even consider how his cryptic remarks might be interpreted by Kim Jong Un
Oh course not. He is not that smart or sophisticated.
As far as I have been able to tell no American politician (with a very few exceptions) understand that their words do not, magically, stop at the US border.
Threats to destroy Iran, wipe out Castro/ the Communist Gov’t in Cuba, depose Bashir Al Assad, etc., are heard around the world. Given the USA’s track record over the last 50 or 60 years, those threats must be taken seriously even if most of it is bombast playing to the voters (or funders).
US politicians do not seem to realise that non-Americans can see, hear and read the anti--(insert favourite enemy here) rants.
An awful lot of people around the world speak English. No translation needed. One can listen to the raw English. Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian Foreign Minister seems to have done all his university education in the USA. He may well have a better command of English than Trump.
jrkrideau@#7:
He may well have a better command of English than Trump.
I know a border collie that has a better command of English than Trump.