Op-ed:
An Interesting Past Few Months Indeed
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American
Political Radio
What a past few months it has been for both our country and our
president as together domestic and foreign policy affairs have taken
center stage...sometimes even overlapping each other on the same day.
Briefly, on the domestic front our economy continues to thrive under
President Trump's leadership as jobs numbers are the best they've
been since the year 2000, especially with the unemployment rate
hitting a low of 3.9% as the jobs market becomes even more
competitive then it ever was during the Obama years...a very good
thing indeed. And American companies based overseas are finally
returning home with once overburdening regulations now being lifted;
wages are increasing across the board with folks now seeing more
monies in their weekly paychecks thanks to Trump's new 'Tax Cuts and
Jobs Act of 2017'; and most importantly of all folks are not just
saving their monies earned but they are spending again...putting
capital back into the economy...fueling it ever upward reaching
numbers unseen in years.
And lest we forget that last week President Trump signed a bipartisan
bill that “rewrites”... as in dismantles...parts of the 2010
Dodd-Frank Act, Obama's disastrous financial regulation overhaul
enacted, he claimed, in response to the 2008 financial crisis. This
newly signed bill will now exempt dozens of our nation's smaller banks from both
“overly aggressive” strict federal regulations and Federal
Reserve oversight....another very good thing for both the economy and we
taxpayers as it helps aid smaller banks and credit unions in expanding the
types of mortgages they can offer, so critical in our country's more rural
and less cosmopolitan areas.
Such positive changes our economy has seen in just the short year and
a half Donald Trump has been president for America now has at its
helm a man...a commander-in-chief...who truly understands how
business works...as in the “business of government”...with that
understanding going way beyond simple Economics 101.
On the foreign affairs front...a front that has so dominated the
news...President Trump let the whole world know that America's bond with
Israel is stronger than ever before as he threw all condemnation to
the wayside and moved our United States Embassy to Jerusalem, thus
officially now recognizing the
"Holy City" as the today, tomorrow, and forever undivided
capital of the Jewish State...and other sovereign nations are
following suit. And Trump is also seriously considering recognizing
the Golan Heights as Israeli territory... territory it rightfully
captured 51-years ago during the Arab-started, six day Yom Kippur War.
According to Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz,
"American
recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan is the best answer
to Iran's attempts to establish a military front against
Israel." And how very right Yisrael Katz is for no nation needs the
proverbial wolf sitting at its door.
And speaking of Iran, let's dare not forget that President Trump pulled us
out of Obama's very bad nuclear deal...a deal that saw the enemy
being emboldened by a former president truly not on America's side.
Rightfully telling the world that Iran breached the deal time and
time again... and that even their entering into the said deal was based upon a
lie...what President Trump actually did was show our 'supposed'
allies who not only is the boss but who is calling the shots. And
these 'supposed' allies...Great Britain, France, and Germany...proved
themselves to be anything but as they chose to show the world that
they are standing strong not with America but with America's...and of
course Israel's...enemy Iran.
Saying that they will remain in this farce of a nuclear deal, know
this will be remembered by President Trump when these once allies
come crying to us...in the very near future I might add...that the
still ongoing and seemingly never ending muslim invasion of Europe
has gotten out of hand. You know what...too damn bad for the days of
stabbing the United States...let alone Israel...in the back are now
over.
And also on the foreign affairs front...in fact dominating the
current news cycle I might add...is everything North Korea. The
Hermit Kingdom as it's commonly known, North Korea is not a kingdom
but a brutal dictatorial regime run by a mad man-child of sorts...a
mad man-child not unlike a whimpering
"snowflake” hyped up on liberal
propaganda times ten. But this very dangerous
“snowflake” has nukes
ready to lift off with just the push of a button that rests in one of
his hands all while he tries to fool the world into believing that
he'll give them all up for the salvaging of his country's economy.
Simply he won't...it cannot be said any plainer than that.
And President Trump knows this well with his mastery of the “art of
the deal” now coming into play. And while some world leaders have
been fooled into believing this pathological liar wants nothing but
peace, its they who have closed their eyes to the fact that Kim
Jong-un is actually in partnership with Iran...as in Iran supplies
North Korea with long range ballistic missiles needed to deliver their nuclear
payload, and Iran gets enriched uranium stamped 'Made in North Korea'
in return.
In fact, as per a
learned team of multi-national weapons researchers who very closely monitor both Iranian state
television and satellite imagery, Iran is and always has continued to
operate a secret missile research facility which goes directly
against terms of the nuclear deal they a bit to eagerly agreed to abide by. And with experts like Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the
International Institute for Strategic Studies, now believing this
facility to be involved in long-range missile technology with a
specific focus on advanced rocket engines and rocket fuel, the
facility in question actually appears in imagery to be built to house
larger type missiles...ICBM missiles most likely...something North
Korea so desperately needs as their missiles keep blowing up or
missing their test targets completely.
And know that my above said presumed “trade” has in most
probability already been completed...to some degree at least...so
there would be no reason not for Kim Jong-un to extend his hand in
supposed friendship...what has he got to lose. Feigning wanting to
bring the two Korea's together as one, feigning wanting to come to
the negotiating table with President Trump, the mad man-child is
playing to the cameras alone for what is Kim Jong-un but a “bad
actor” trying to both steal the lead and directorship of what in
reality is a Donald J. Trump written, orchestrated, and directed play.
How so...it all started in 2017 when North Korea tested more than a
dozen missiles setting off a very heated exchange between President Trump
and Kim Jong-un whom he loved to call
“Little Rocket Man.” Culminating
last November when North Korea claimed it had in its possession a nuclear-capable
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that could now reach the
entirety of the continental U.S., suddenly and quite unexpectedly,
the North basically invited itself to the 2018 Winter Olympics to be
held in Seoul, South Korea. And then this past March, just a few
months ago, a ten-strong delegation from Seoul...a delegation led by
South Korea's National Security Office head Chung Eui-yong...visited
Pyongyang where it was publicly stating that Kim Jong-un was willing
to discuss the fate of his nuclear arsenal with the United States as
well as expressing a readiness to suspend both nuclear and missile tests
during such talks...with fingers most likely crossed behind their backs as, I
believe, North Korea already had all they needed to carry out such an
attack.
Then on March 9th, President Trump decided to not just play the game
but to own the game outright as well as he accepted the
“Little Rocket
Man's” now formal invitation to meet. And while at the end of the
month Kim Jong-un made an unannounced visit to Beijing where he met with
Chinese President Xi Jinping in an attempt to strengthen what he saw
as his leverage ahead of negotiations with Trump, whatever was worked
out with President Xi has not served Kim Jong-un well in the long run
as China remains more than a bit concerned about any shift in the
balance of power on the Korean peninsula.
And while this past
Easter Sunday new but then still unconfirmed Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo met secretly with Kim Jong-un in North Korea, where after the
meeting he said,
"a good relationship was formed" heading
into the highly anticipated what came to be known as the NOKO Summit.
And while just days later North Korea announced that it had suspended
nuclear and long-range missile tests with plans in the works to close
its nuclear test site as part of a shift in its national focus to
improving the North's failing economy, a red flag of sorts was
raised...a red flag it seems few paid attention to as no
all-important timetable for said plans to be carried out was even
remotely alluded to. But the
“Little Rocket Man” played the game
well for on May 9th now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an
unannounced one-day trip to Pyongyang to prepare for the planned NOKO Summit, and to everyone's surprise returned home with the three
American hostages North Korea had held.
So with Kim Jong-un's successful nothing but a publicity stunt, hopes
were high that a summit would truly take place, and on May 10th
President Trump announced he would meet with Kim Jong-un in Singapore
on June 12th. And while Trump tweeted that, "We will both try to
make it a very special moment for World Peace!"...his and the
world's hopes for peace proved to be a bit short lived for just last
week President Trump rightfully called off the planned NOKO
summit...called it off because of “tremendous anger” and
“escalating frustration and newly antagonistic rhetoric”
displayed by the North over comments made by Trump aides regarding U.S.
expectations for North Korea's required "denuclearization."
Calling said cancellation a "tremendous setback" for peace,
Trump also let it be known that the U.S. military is ready and more
than able to respond to any and all "foolish or reckless acts"
by the North.
But know that President Trump is one very smart man who with his
cancellation actually checkmated, if you will, the “Little Rocket
Man.” Thinking he had the upper hand what with his believing that
China was on his side, Kim Jong-un never expected Trump to pull out.
Thinking “saving face” alone would assure that Trump attended the
summit no matter any of North Korean actions taken, Kim Jong-un could
not see that he had all along been played by Donald Trump...played to
such a degree that Trump pushed him into a corner where he, not the
U.S., was held responsible for the collapse of the NOKO Summit.
So where do we stand now as I write this article what with Trump's cleverly manipulated flip-flopping having already taken place...a flip-flop that
was really crafted diplomacy at its very best...coupled with it being an unprecedented
negotiating tactic in action. What we do know is that last Friday,
President Trump
“welcomed” North Korea's as expected response to
hopefully still meet even after his abrupt public withdrawal from the NOKO
Summit, as well as to the official withdrawal letter he himself wrote.
Followed in less than a day with Trump saying that,
"we're talking to
them now," there is a strong possibility that the summit could still
take place on the original June 12th date, but know it will take place on Trump's terms not on Kim Jong-un's.
But most importantly of
all is that President Trump surely let the world know that while
"Everybody plays games,"
not everybody controls those games as well as he does nor does any
country have a leader with the needed leverage, strength, and courage to do what he did...as in simply to walk away.
So when all is said and done it truly has been an interesting few
months both for our country and for President Trump with promises of
even more interesting happenings to come. Some of those happenings
will be good of course and some as to be expected not so much, but
whatever happens know that in President Donald J. Trump once again
America has a strong man at the helm...a man not unlike our beloved Ronald
Reagan...a man who not only leads from “the front” but who puts
America first not last. And what a welcome change that is.
Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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