Blackcap Blog

Published at 07:00 on 19 April 2018

Some points:

1. It’s a good thing that talks, and not threats of nuclear annihilation, are happening.
2. It would have been far better if the threats of annihilation had never happened.
3. We got lucky that the threats stayed mere threats.
4. Trump is still Trump, and thus an unreliable partner for anyone to cut a deal with, so we may well go back to threats (or worse) of annihilation.
5. Trump is also emotionally immature, which leaves him vulnerable to being manipulated in any dialogue with an adversary.
6. North Korea is still a very difficult problem to solve, thus an overall solution remains highly unlikely.
7. The secret talks in all likelihood were not planned to help Pompeo’s chances of being approved as Secretary of State; such a claim gives the Trump regime far more credit for being able to effectively plan and govern than it has exhibited to date.