Trump Didn’t Lose in North Korea, The World Did

A few days ago in North Korea, talks between Trump and Kim Jong Un ended abruptly with no peace agreement reached.

None of this really comes as a surprise. The NK government has stated that they consider Trump and his crew to be nothing more than gangsters. If Trump really wanted a peace agreement, the very last person that should have been present is Bolton. Instead, rumors are Bolton made demands that went beyond what even Trump demanded. Demands that NK was not going to accede to.

Nobody can question that Trump was not trying to reach a peace agreement. He was seeking domination and subjugation. Yet the biggest mistake anyone can make is believing, apart from his brutish and uncouth behavior, that this is any form of change in US foreign policy. It’s no change at all. US foreign policy for many decades, basically the entirety of our history, has entailed the economic, political and military isolation and oppression of any country that does not submit to our imperial aspirations.

Honestly, that’s not much better than we treat our alleged allies. I’ve said before and will say again that the US government does not seek allies, they seek accomplices to our crimes against humanity. Our government seeks alliances to attack countries that have never posed a threat to us, enact sanctions that starve, deny medical treatment to civilians and cripple economies. The costs imposed on our “allies” can destroy entire industries in those countries and cause expenses they are not equipped…