Our new president is a “bull in a nuclear China shop.”
Wish I’d thought of that label. That’s perfect. And it goes right along with my concern/prediction that the biggest danger of a President trump is nuclear confrontation, be it with us and North Korea, us and Russia, Pakistan and India, between any two countries, really, or even between us and terrorists.
The complexities and subtleties of international relationships are obviously beyond his grasp. The bigger problem is that he doesn’t know that. If he knew it, he might take some advice. But, no, our president will buffoon his way around the world, flattening carefully constructed diplomatic relationships, exacerbating international frictions, and creating dangerous misunderstandings, all the while thinking he’s doing a great job.
North Korea plays a very dangerous game which requires restraint, tact, and steady, contemplated responses on the part of the United States. That game has 10s of millions of lives at stake. Let’s hope trump doesn’t react to Kim Jong Un’s bluster with the same kind of pathetic, thin-skinned, angry, unthinking, foolishness that he usually responds to insults with.
Given what he displayed on the campaign trail, this really wasn’t that hard to see coming. No, wait. Apparently, for 62 million people, it was. Morons.
