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02-28-2019 , 12:42 AM

#1426

ScreaminAsian

For President

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02-28-2019 , 12:43 AM

#1427

ScreaminAsian

For President

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02-28-2019 , 02:35 AM

#1428

Klingbard

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rumors of no joint signing ceremony, schedules being shifted, early press conference, pessimism of progress.

02-28-2019 , 04:23 AM

#1429

David Sklansky

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Because Americans do not want to take even a small risk of seeing great numbers of other Americans dying, North Korean leaders need not worry about being militarily overthrown by us as long as it appears that they have a five percent chance of getting one nuke through and killing a few hundred thousand. Exactly what arsenal that would mean for them I don't know. But it is the Nash equilibrium that I predict we will eventually get to.

02-28-2019 , 09:04 AM

#1430

LostOstrich

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Quote:

Originally Posted by David Sklansky

Because Americans do not want to take even a small risk of seeing great numbers of other Americans dying

Depends how you’re defining “Americans” and “other Americans” here.

02-28-2019 , 09:31 AM

#1431

+rep_lol

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welp, gg summit. POTUS is such a ****ing loser, can't wait to see how he tries to spin this obvious display of bad judgment on twitter

02-28-2019 , 09:36 AM

#1432

stinkubus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by David Sklansky

They've got a ****load of conventional weapons capable of firing on Seoul, and there's not much anyone could to do stop them from being fired.

Any attack on NK means millions dead in SK. I don't think they need any more deterrent than that.

02-28-2019 , 11:03 AM

#1433

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by David Sklansky

And some Americans even don't want 20 million Koreans to get killed.

02-28-2019 , 11:05 AM

#1434

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Quote:

Originally Posted by stinkubus

And some Americans don't even want to kill millions of North Koreans.

02-28-2019 , 11:20 AM

#1435

Namath12

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Quote:

Originally Posted by +rep_lol

welp, gg summit. POTUS is such a ****ing loser, can't wait to see how he tries to spin this obvious display of bad judgment on twitter

tbh this whole thing feels like a farce orchestrated to keep everyone from talking about Mueller and Trump's various and sundry legal troubles. Trump was already trying to tamp down expectations even before he saw Kim ("I'm not worried about speed" or whatever bull**** line that was)

02-28-2019 , 11:26 AM

#1436

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Namath12

Maybe Trump likes getting out of the house sometimes too and he doesn't get met with huge protests in totalitarian countries.

02-28-2019 , 11:30 AM

#1437

lozen

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

And some Americans even don't want 20 million Koreans to get killed.

I think many on the right wouldn't care as long as it is not them.

North Korea will never give up all their Nukes. I wouldn't as just look at Libya and the Iran deal that Trump did not honor.

If they were smart they would try and give up most and keep a few and agree not to develop more.

02-28-2019 , 11:55 AM

#1438

Louis Cyphre

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I know that nothing matters but who picked Vietnam as the location for the summit? This must be the worst possible choice.
It can‘t be in Trump’s interest to remind people that he infamously dodged military service in Vietnam for spurious reasons.
More importantly the Vietnam war was a conflict in a divided country between the communist North, supported by China and Russia, and the US-aligned South. That sounds eerily familiar. A war the US eventually lost despite its military supremacy.

02-28-2019 , 12:02 PM

#1439

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Louis Cyphre

There aren't many options and Trump doesn't want to go to Sweden and get protested.

02-28-2019 , 12:12 PM

#1440

Namath12

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the **** is this ****?

02-28-2019 , 12:15 PM

#1441

Namath12

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02-28-2019 , 12:20 PM

#1442

+rep_lol

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lol thats a really good one

02-28-2019 , 02:22 PM

#1443

batair

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Quote:

Originally Posted by lozen

I think many on the right wouldn't care as long as it is not them.

So NY, LA and Chicago.

02-28-2019 , 03:12 PM

#1444

SenorKeeed

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pretty sure Chicago is MAGA country

02-28-2019 , 03:19 PM

#1445

Namath12

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lol

02-28-2019 , 03:22 PM

#1446

+rep_lol

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lol its the new ignition captcha screen!

02-28-2019 , 03:27 PM

#1447

prana

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nice

02-28-2019 , 06:57 PM

#1448

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

There aren't many options and Trump doesn't want to go to Sweden and get protested.

This is the only reason.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Namath12

the **** is this ****?

Kim trolling Trump by having a bigger motorcade despite being from the poorest country in the world

02-28-2019 , 11:19 PM

#1449

ChrisV

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Uh, has this been posted?

Quote:

At the conclusion of his Hanoi summit with Mr Kim, Mr Trump told reporters he talked with Mr Kim about the “horrible” Warmbier case.

“He knew the case very well, but he knew it later,” Mr Trump said, adding that “some really bad things” happened to Mr Warmbier while he was detained.

Mr Kim “tells me that he didn’t know about it, and I will take him at his word”.

lol