Five minutes of common sense. Kim Jong-Un embarrassed Trump.
Apparently, Kim Jong-Un decided to deprive Trump of his political dignity, whatever is left of it.
As you know, the DPRK has conducted yet another test of a ballistic missile as a part of the program to develop its nuclear capabilities.
This caused a wave of indignation in the US.
It is important to note that Pyongyang chose a very propitious moment
to cause maximal pain and embarrassment to the Trump administration.
First, the test was conducted after the President of the USA had stated several times
that the continuation of the North Korean nuclear program was unacceptable
and several times promised that this problem would definitely be solved.
By launching yet another ballistic missile, the North Korean immediately revealed that the king is in fact naked
meaning that Trump is either bluffing or simply taking his votes for a ride.
It would be OK it he was doing this only to his voters – this is not the first such occasion, nor will it be the last,
and everybody is used to that kind of behavior by now.
The problem is Trump is bamboozling the American partners and allies in the key Asian region.
That is precisely what the last North Korean missile has demonstrated.
The second important point is that by this launch Pyongyang is hinting at its ability to reach not just the American base on Guam
but also hit the continental USA, which, from Washington's point of view, is unacceptable and intolerable risk.
According to the Western media, and in this case I am inclined to believe them, the trajectory of the North Korean missile
was selected in order to demonstrate a theoretical possibility to reach as far as Washington, D.C.
The North Korean media decided to play along with the Western panic attack and leaked information
that the new type of the ballistic intercontinental missile Hwasong-15 not only is capable or reaching any point within the continental USA
but can carry a heavy nuclear warhead.
Trump is now facing a totally unsolvable problem:
on the one hand, he cannot ignore a direct threat to Washington posed by the North Korean nuclear missiles.
On the other hand, he does not have simple solutions at his disposal.
Even the President of the South Korea recently said that the military solution was not to be used,
and that the US must coordinate their actions with the South Korean government.
Besides, Trump has an image problem.
His image is based on idea that he is a serious and big macho tough guy by comparison to Barak Obama,
whom Trump himself often called a weakling and even a pantywaist.
In order to maintain that image, it is necessary to constantly batter someone, bomb, intimidate, and defeat.
Only it does not work with the DPRK.
It appears that the Trump administration seriously hoped that a show of force
with the aircraft carrier group sailing near the shores of the South Korea would make Kim Jong-Un surrender.
This means that Washington did not have any plan B in case that plan A does not work.
And the plan did not work. And they have absolutely no clue what to do about it.
Even if Pyongyang is reduced to ashes – the American Army has the capabilities to do that if it so desires –
the risk still remains that one or more missiles reach the US, which would means the end of Trump as the President and a politician.
The American political elites as well as the American voters will not forgive him for such an epic failure.
On the other hand, if Trump does nothing the image of the US and, most importantly, the image of Trump himself would suffer.
Today, the whole world is watching live how the leaders of the DPRK humiliate and shame the leaders of the USA.
The Americans, who treasure their position as the world hegemon, cannot afford this.
They have not yet recovered after their loss in Syria.
The defeat in Syria has been already acknowledged even by the most patriotic of the American media.
They have not quite recovered yet after Putin had successfully brought together at the negotiation table the eternal enemies, Turkey and Iran.
They have not yet gotten over the shock that Turkey and Saudi Arabia are buying air defense systems from Russia,
which would enable them, if needed, to defend themselves against the American military intervention.
In these circumstances, the last thing Trump needs is to be publicly humiliated by Kim Jong-Un.
I have an impression that the White House and the State Department are either in a panic mode or in complete disorder.
The best the geniuses in Washington managed to come up with to counteract the North Korean show of force
was to demand that other countries break all contacts with the DPRK and deprive Pyongyang of its seat in the UN.
Besides that, Washington is pressing all countries including Russia to cut all trade relations with the DPRK and expel all North Korean workers.
The Department of State, as it happens, did Trump a disservice,
for the outcome of this story will be quite sad for the American President.
The Americans will be soon received answers instructing them where exactly they can staff up their demands.
It goes without saying that no one will do as they ask.
For example, The Russian State Duma already reacted to the American dictate.
As the RIA News reports, the Deputy Head of the State Duma Committee on Defense Yuri Shwydkin declared
that the Russian Federation should not agree to the US to cut ties with the DPRK.
"In this matter, Moscow should follow its own interests".
He added: "We do not condone the actions of the DPRK in launching this missile and we do discuss the launch,
"But at the same time there should be mutual accommodations – only then a peaceful solution will be possible".
China and other countries will react in the same manner.
The result will be that the State Department will have demonstrated one more time just how helpless Trump and the US are in this matter.
The Trump administration has only one option left to it: it needs to convince somehow the leaders of China and Russia,
i.e., the countries mediating the DPRK's foreign trade operations, to put pressure on the DPRK.
This is possible but on one condition:
if the Trump administration is willing to back down and offer China and Russian in return something really important on other issues.
Clearly, the White House is reluctant to do that. But it will have to.
Trump simply has no other choice.
For otherwise Comrade Kim will soon launch yet another missile and yet again demonstrate how helpless the American President really is.
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