RE: A Saudi hit and run criminal breaks his electric ankle bracelet and flees America
December 27, 2018 at 6:22 am
(December 26, 2018 at 9:46 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: One would be hard pressed to claim that our motive for interfacing with North Korea is primarily economic.
Even a mere month before the Singapore Summit, you had Republicans saying that war with the DPRK would be be a 'good thing', as the below video shows (because certain Republicans haven't seen a war which they don't like). As we know from Open Secrets, Lindsey Graham is one of defence industry's whipping many boys - because he's one of their biggest investments. Here he is a month before the summit telling us why war on the Korean peninsula would be a good thing.
There are four things which Donald Trump cares about:
1. His children (in particular Ivanka)
2. Positive media coverage about himself
3. Money
4. Receiving compliments
Donald Trump seemed to go against mainstream of the Republican Party by having the Singapore Summit. Lindsey Graham is a window into the mainstream of the Republican Party, and we find a party that didn't really want diplomacy with the DPRK. I have never seen as organisation as determined as the modern Republican Party is, to make the human race go extinct.
The Singapore Summit was motivated primarily by the president's self interest. The potential for positive media coverage and the potential money making opportunities (as we shall see) were big draws for the president. Remember, we were seemingly on the brink of war until Donald Trump received those 'love letters' from Kim Jong-Un, and quote: "fell in love". Video:
At the Singapore Summit, Donald Trump actually talked about how he showed Kim a video regarding having real estate on the beaches where they were firing their cannons. He informed reporters of how he could be making money in the DPRK, and the was rightly mocked for it, as the selection of related Tweets on the subject in this article show:
Trump talks about development on North Korea’s ‘great beaches’
And here is the video of him talking about how he'd love to make money on the beaches of the DPRK:
But what did the Singapore Summit really achieve in the end? Did Donald Trump really achieve anything? In hindsight it just seemed like a good opportunity for photographs. There has been no nuclear disarmament by the DPRK for example (although I do think it's hypocritical that some countries are allowed nuclear weapons and others seemingly are not).
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But getting back to Saudi, we again seen that Donald Trump's foreign policy decisions are motivated by self-interest. He won't side with his own government on matters relating to Saudi because, for example:
Trump registered eight companies in Saudi Arabia during campaign: report
Or how about:
Trump said he has 'no financial interests in Saudi Arabia.' But his businesses have made millions from the Saudi government, and the crown prince gave his New York City hotel a huge boost.
With Donald Trump in the Oval Office is only natural for the Saudis to murder people have to suffer no consequences as a result. He's making money off of the Saudis so he doesn't care about one "fake news journalist". Interestingly, I remember Jamal on Mehdi Hassan's show al-Jazeera once telling us about how Saudi "supports peace and freedom in the Middle East".
I am sure that the Saudis are doing many more horrendous things, as I type this message, simply aren't receiving the condemnation they deserve. The president has allowed them to act with impunity because of his conflicts of interest. But then what president in the past few decades hasn't minded the Saudis killing innocent people?
