the cluelessness is really overwhelming. but, as i mentioned months ago, the masses connect to this for the precise reason that it's a repetition of the propaganda that is designed for them - because he gets his information from the same sources.
it's less that he's stupid and more that he's brainwashed.
the guy is truly the bleater in chief.
baaaaaaa. baaaaaaaaa.
all he knows is what fox news told him.
what's the truth, here?
1) north korea is not an independent actor, and it's leadership does not make autonomous decisions. it is entirely dependent on everything from the chinese.
2) so, when the koreans grit their teeth like this, it is not because the chinese "won't help". it's a chinese tactic. the chinese are telling them to do this.
3) on the chess board, korea is a stalemate. there is no way forwards. nuclear weapons do not alter the character of the situation. that river is off limits from the chinese perspective. it was off limits 50 years ago, and it was off limits 500 years ago and it will be off limits 500 years from now. so, there is nothing that the americans can do without launching a war against the chinese.
when the north koreans pull it out and start swinging it around like this, it is always and only to create a distraction from other regional issues. right now, it seems like the chinese are trying to create a distraction in korea so that they can continue expanding, unmolested, in the south china sea.
the reason the americans always fall for it is that the potential for a threat is too great to ignore, even if it isn't actually real. this is an aspect of the stalemate: the americans can neither ignore the situation, nor can they ever resolve it.
if trump were going to carry through with the shift in policy that others have hoped he would carry through with, the solution would be to break the stalemate by withdrawing - to call the chinese bluff. he won't do this, though - because he's been brainwashed by hannity like all the other fucking sheep have been and is just as clueless as the rest of the idiots are.