From writer David Brin on Facebook about tRump and NK

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https://www.facebook.com/thedavidbrin?hc_ref=ARQYBx62b1BtAG47hmDY1j7D_VuqArAYs7pqeDY4EoZWdAGgkR10azXDxrKTa_JGMJo&fref=nf

Rule of thumb. If you envision a Trump action benefiting America and the West, look closer. Take N. Korea. Kim is offering talks right now because it is logically exactly the right time for him. His aim, in seeking nukes, was always to replace an expensive deterrent - a gigantic, standing army - with a much cheaper one, H Bombs. The goal: get the US and SK to agree to "limit" NK to 20 warheads, enough to protect the regime. In exchange, we 'get' a ramp down in his conventional forces... which is exactly what Kim desperately needs, in order to feed his people and rescue his economy.

Think these things through. In every single case, look for who gets a win-win-win. DT will get a symbolic-raving "victory." Kim will get absolutely everything he, wants, in exactly the order that he wants them. And Kim's sponsor-owners, without whom he never would have made a single bomb or missile, continue to own a dagger that they can shoot at us any time, with an EMP warhead, while retaining "it wasn't us!" deniability.

None of this would have worked without a Siberian Candidate in the US presidency, demolishing all of our alliances. Is anyone... anyone?... thinking this through, out there?

We are truly fucked with orange-utan in the WH.