From the Irish Times:
The idiot king has stabbed his South Korean ally in the back because a nuclearised North Korea is showing him respectNorth Korea is actively assisting Putin’s murderous war of invasion in Ukraine, sending thousands of soldiers and huge volumes of weapons to bolster the flagging Russian attempts to subjugate Ukraine.
In January of this year, Trump increased tariffs on South Korea from 15 per cent to 25 per cent complaining that the South Koreans were slow in implementing a “deal” under which Trump has extorted a promise that South Korea will invest $350 billion in American industry.
This week, Trump, the idiot king, decided to severely scale back US involvement in annual joint military exercises with the South Koreans. Announcing this volte-face in US policy and practice, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: “Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong-un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!) but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile to a Country that, as long as Donald J Trump has been President has been unthreatening and respectful.”
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So, there you have it. Trump claims to be on the best of terms with Kim, and President Xi of China, and President Putin of Russia, each of whom is threatening his erstwhile allies, and with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, who suckered him into his ludicrous, losing war with Iran, which will cost the US more than $100 billion in the long run – not to mention the loss of international standing and respect on an unprecedented scale.
What a shameful, disreputable clown is Trump. He stabs his South Korean ally in the back because a nuclearised North Korea – a participant in Putin’s war on Ukraine – is showing him respect, and because North Korea’s programme of missile and submarine-based nuclear technology is not threatening the US. Just whom does it threaten?