{"id":27982,"date":"2017-11-15T07:19:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27982"},"modified":"2017-11-15T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:19:39","slug":"flirting-with-war-in-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27982","title":{"rendered":"Flirting With War in North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flirting With War in North Korea<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Photo by Stefan Krasowski | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The most surprising part about Donald Trump\u2019s Wednesday speech, <\/a>directed at the North Korean regime via Tokyo, is that more people of a certain type<\/a> weren\u2019t gushing over it. After all, if sending cruise missiles at Syria makes a man presidential, condemning North Korea accurately as \u201ca hell that no person deserves\u201d and sounding vaguely concerned about its miserable treatment of its civilians should make Trump worthy of Mr. Rushmore<\/p>\n

Trump is locked into an eternal squabble with Kim. This is nothing new for the United States \u2014 we\u2019ve been messing with Korea for 70 years. On the other hand, Trump is usually a blowhard almost in the manner that the Kim family tends to be. Trump hasn\u2019t released any dramatic videos of what it would like if the US nuked North Korea, but he\u2019s done the American version \u2014 constantly threatening terrible things towards a nation that has had a victim complex since its inception, as well as delivering goofy schoolyard insults like \u201clittle rocketman\u201d at a regime that clearly believes that it is to its benefit to acquire and keep nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Never mind his vague nods to anti-interventionism on the campaign trail. Trump started his presidency by enthusiastically bombing the same countries his predecessors did. He even joined in on the hot new presidential trend, helping to eliminate members of the Awlaki family<\/a>(and at least a dozen other civilians, in the disastrous SEAL January raid in Yemen).<\/p>\n

Now, Trump truly joined the American Empire family with his summer speech to the UN, in which he declared<\/a> that the US \u201cmay have no choice but to totally destroy\u201d North Korea if it does not behave.<\/p>\n

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Flirting With War in North Korea Photo by Stefan Krasowski | CC BY 2.0 The most surprising part about Donald Trump\u2019s Wednesday speech, directed at the North Korean regime via Tokyo, is that more people of a certain type weren\u2019t gushing over it. After all, if sending cruise missiles at Syria makes a man presidential, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5493,7844,259,17022,2006,827,862],"class_list":["post-27982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-empire","tag-lucy-steigerwald","tag-north-korea","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27983,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27982\/revisions\/27983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}