We all know drumpf’s favorite debate tactic, finely honed at about twelve years old, when his mind and penis stopped growing.
Simply flinging an opponents words back at your opponent is extremely satisfying, in a juvenile way, and has the added advantage of requiring very little thought, — always an added bonus for der Gropenfuhrer. It may not, however, be the beat way to deal with a fellow unstable narcissist possessed of Thermonuclear Weapons …
Zack Beauchamp at Vox explains why.
By now we’ve all heard or seen, and shuddered drump’s response to The WaPo report that N. Korea probably has the capability to marry a nuke warhead to a ballistic missile.
Cue Zac:
“Overheated rhetoric like Tuesday morning’s threat to use nuclear weapons against US is a longstanding feature of North Korea propaganda, and not something that means an attack is actually going to happen. It’s such a commonly used part of Pyongyang’s playbook that there are a number of long-running parodies of it, like the satirical Twitter account DPRK News.”
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Trump’s response today breaks the pattern. By matching North Korean threats with similar threats, he raises the level of overall tensions and signals to North Korea that something might be different with this administration. This worries North Korea experts, who do not see it as a well-thought-out strategic shift.
“He blusters when he doesn't know what to say,” Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on North Korea at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, tells me.
Instead, it suggests that the US is more likely to be belligerent than it was in the past, exactly the opposite of the signal the president should be sending at a time when tensions over the North Korean nuclear program are at an all-time high due to recent missile tests.”
If we all end up in a pile of ash that will make Daenerys Targaryen and Drogon look like slackers we can thank voters who thought electing everyone’s least favorite fifth grader President was a good idea.