{"id":397890,"date":"2019-03-03T03:04:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fiasco-in-hanoi-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-03-03T03:04:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T02:04:11","slug":"fiasco-in-hanoi-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fiasco-in-hanoi-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiasco in Hanoi – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Special for LewRockwell.com<\/em><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s air trip to Vietnam cost taxpayers\u00a0$5,695,000 just for the president\u2019s flying Taj Mahal.\u00a0 Plus millions more for his retainers, the presidential limo, hotel rooms, meals, security details and only Ho Chi Minh knows what else.<\/p>\n

For what?\u00a0 A nice photo op and a cheery dinner for the two leaders in Hanoi.\u00a0 Just about everyone who follows Asian affairs knew in advance that North Korean dynastic strongman (aka king) had no interest or good reason for giving up his nuclear program.\u00a0 The director of US national intelligence,\u00a0Dan Coates, told Trump as much last week.<\/p>\n

Many moons ago, I worked in Jamaica on land and port development projects.\u00a0 The boss of my firm, a self-important, bigwig, used to brush off each new problem by saying in his melodious English-Jamaican accent, \u2018don\u2019t worry, I will neeeegotiate it!\u2019\u00a0 But more often than not, the chief negotiator made a mess of things.
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America\u2019s self-proclaimed chief negotiator just did the same in Vietnam.\u00a0 Either he was so anxious to get out of Washington to avoid the rising storm of scandals he faces or he thought he could flatter the North Korean leader into giving up his nuclear weapons, the only thing that prevents a US invasion of North\u00a0Korea or a regime change operation.<\/p>\n

One also doubts that Trump & Co. realized just how much North Korea\u2019s neighbors, Russia and China, were whispering in Kim Jong Un\u2019s ear.\u00a0 Where did North Korea\u2019s nuclear technology and missiles come from?\u00a0 Did Trump really believe crafty Vlad Putin would allow him to charm the pants off Kim?<\/p>\n

So-called \u2018denuclearizing\u2019 North Korea…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Special for LewRockwell.com President Donald Trump\u2019s air trip to Vietnam cost taxpayers\u00a0$5,695,000 just for the president\u2019s flying Taj Mahal.\u00a0 Plus millions more for his retainers, the presidential limo, hotel rooms, meals, security details and only Ho Chi Minh knows what else. For what?\u00a0 A nice photo op and a cheery dinner for the two leaders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}