SUMMIT: Trump, "way out of his depth" -- because he lacks Depth/knowledge
by Cody Fenwick via gayle - Alternet Wednesday, Jun 13 2018, 1:48am
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Former CIA Director Explains How Trump Completely Botched the North Korea Summit
As President Donald Trump portrays his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a major success, actual experts in foreign policy and diplomacy have a very different perspective.
"I don't think he knows much about, quite frankly, anything when it comes to foreign affairs, national security, even a thing like the war games," said former CIA Director John Brennan of Trump on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Tuesday.
Trump said after the summit that the United States would no longer conduct its joint war games with the South Korean military, but many experts feel this would be a terrible concession.
"Our military exercises with South Korea are not just designed to send a signal to North Korea, but also to make sure that in the event of some more Chinese adventurism in the area that the interoperability that U.S. forces need with South Korean forces, Japanese and others is going to be there," Brennan said.
"It sounds there like he's parroting North Korean talking points," said host Nicolle Wallace, referencing the fact that Trump described the war games as "provocative" — exactly how North Korea had recently described them recently. "Has he been played?"
Brennan audibly laughed at the question.
"The man is way out of his depth," he said of Trump. "And he said that Kim Jong-un is a skilled negotiator? Well, obviously, he is, because he's been able to get everything he wanted, I think, in this first meeting with Mr. Trump. So he has initiated a process where he, Kim Jong-un, is going to be seen as this accommodating statesman who is, at least according to Mr. Trump, seriously going to pursue denuclearization."
He added: "I think what the 'why' for Kim Jong-un is that he wants to draw out this process and see whether or not the Chinese call for the relaxation of sanctions is going to gain traction."
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[Former CIA director John Brennan is no-one's favourite human being, however, it doesn't take a great deal of awareness and intelligence to realise that president Trump cannot be allowed out alone or at all. The USA is going backwards at light speed all thanks to IGNORANT buffoon president Trump, who sees nothing but his own image regardless of where he looks.
Now that is not Trump's fault the entire world is aware that he is a pathologically flawed individual. So what the Trump presidency really indicates/signifies is a fledgling empire FAILING, and as all empires share the same failure trajectory/symptoms, which is, they ALL fail from WITHIN long before they fail from external pressures, it's all but over for America.
Now note the PROBLEM, Trump has done more to assist traditional American opponents than any other president in history, so who is really at fault, the moronic population living on media-fed myths and dreams, or the elite powers that really rule? Indeed a question that many refuse to ask, as CLEARLY Trump should have been and would have been removed from office long ago if the nation was 'healthy'. But Trump betrays America's terminal illness to the entire World. And America's opponents couldn't be happier as they leap and bound FORWARD with EASE.]