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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump and Crime Family knew Kim wanted sanctions lifted before they left here. WTF???
What a waste of time and money. They quit early because the Cohen testimony was over. They need to get back here for damage control. There was no reason for going if we knew our position would be unacceptable to KIM.
What will they say when KIM begins testing again? Since Kim got nothing, his hard-liners will talk him into testing again. Betcha!
Wonder what role Russia played in this debacle. They were there.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Looks like it. trump will claim something he did was great to brag about , and without any way to prove its the truth, which it probably won't be, again. Putin and Kim played him again.
malaise
(268,903 posts)He's way too sick and needy.
ITTMF!
underpants
(182,747 posts)Just got up to the news that the whole thing collapsed.
Wow talk about having a bad day. Racist, conman, cheat,.....and loser.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)The Brits are up working while we sleep.....
Vietnam summit: US president blames disagreement over sanctions for no deal
Donald Trump says North Korea wanted all sanctions lifted in return for partial denuclearisation
Julian Borger in Hanoi
Thu 28 Feb 2019 07.46 GMT, First published on Thu 28 Feb 2019 05.04 GMT
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/28/vietnam-summittrump-and-kim-play-down-hopes-of-quick-results-nuclear-talks
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underpants
(182,747 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,631 posts)screen for a meeting with his Russian contacts. Once he accomplished that, it was game over for Kim.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)You know, like they always do.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)China will never allow significant American influence in North Korea and China is NK's primary trade partner.
We can bet that our current sour relations with China had major effects here.....
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)to stage this FAKE summit, wherein their republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Dirty Donny, got down on his knees again before a murderous fascist thug.
Shameful. Truly cowardly, stupid, and shameful (R).
Peace06
(248 posts)To cover trumps meeting with Russian?
To be out of Washington during Cohen testimony?
So he can say that the investigations are making it
Impossible to govern?
Wants to build a trump tower in Hanoi or N. Korea?
Any number of other lies.
mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)that was what Kim wanted.
Having people who know how Kim operates to begin negotiations would be a standard procedure, before even talking about a summit. Having a forward operating team, who knows what they are doing, would have nixed that tiny chair. trump looked god awful sitting in it, while Kim looked like a cat that just ate a canary. It visually put trump in an inferior position. trump's 1st concession was to agree to partial denuclearization. Even weaker, so why wouldn't Kim go for the gold, trump already gave away the silver.