In comments to reporters on Friday, President Trump said he agrees with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in his opposition to the major US-South Korea war games, saying he’s also “never been a fan” of the war games, because “I don’t like paying for it.”
This makes some sense in that President Trump was quick to agree to halt such joint exercises in Korea during peace talks when the process began. However, there is no indication such talks have been planned.
That was apparently part of the subject of Kim Jong Un’s letter to Trump, objecting to the exercises, which North Korea sees as simulated invasions. In acknowledging Kim’s position, Trump did not indicate if he was going to make any changes to policy.
Some Pentagon officials have pushed for the resumption of such exercises, saying that the pause in such games had weakened US combat readiness in Korea. But it’s not clear why the decision was made to resume such exercises, particularly if Trump never liked the idea.
“Pentagon Officials” don’t care about what the President thinks because they are all waiting to cash in on those defense industry paydays after they retire.
The whole system is rotten from the studs up.
Agree 100%.
I suppose they have todo something to spend the 750 billion on ?
Not to mention that the Pentagon can’t even be audited, even if someone gave enough of a sh*t to try to do so. God only knows how much these defense contractors, middlemen and procurement officers are skimming. Anyone else remember the pallets and pallets of cash sent over to Iraq over a decade ago, which were then disbursed with no accountability? Can’t afford national health care, though. F**king disgusting.
The current prez is incapable of thinking.
Trump & Kim are right. The military in USA & South Korea are a bunch of feral punks running loose.
I agree 100%. The military in the US and SK are a bunch of feral punks running loose. It’s time to rein them in, before chaos is unleashed on the Korean Peninsula
Wait a minute, isn’t Trump the commander in chief? He could stop those war games in a New York minute. What’s stopping him? Could it be that he’s really not in control of the situation, that he’s not really his own man? Otherwise, why would he have surrounded himself with neocons and Zionists who lead him around like a poodle?
What do the Zionists have on him anyway? Maybe Jeffrey Epstein will shed some light on that, if he isn’t suicided first.
Thomas, good call on Epstein.
I’m sure they’ll find nothing.
I just saw the news. He hanged himself while on suicide watch? His little black book will be lost in the evidence locker, too. This is so deep and dark it makes you want to puke.
Suicide seems the least likely of at least three possibilities (suicide, murder, or neither).
I’m going with “neither” until we actually see his body.
Update: Until we see a body that looks dead. Oops, “cremation” tonight. So much for that.
Yeah, just like what they did with the supposed corpse of Osama bin Laden, except they threw the body into the sea.
Only, Osama bin Laden died of natural causes (kidney failure) in December, 2001, in Afghanistan. The body that was dumped into the sea was that of an impostor who resembled him.
Lord Jesus called Mr. Epstein to heaven. RIP!
I’m thinking it’s more like Mossad has “spirited” him back to Israel. Don’t believe ANYTHING about the official MSM Epstein narrative.
Yes, I said Sweet Jesus, but should have gone with my first thought–which was the great Rebbe Schneerson. But it’s most likely it was the Mossad/Bibi crowd 🙂
Jesus threw the money changers out of the Temple. They never forgave him for that, to this very day. They have morphed into the banksters. They make money from nothing, magically. Epstein did the same… What was he, a maths teacher in NYC? Get real!
“never been a fan” of the war games, because “I don’t like paying for it”
Once again it’s all about the money. Thursday he was bitching about South Korea not paying enough protection money. Today we hear about how we want Germany to spend more on their military or we’ll move our protection to Poland. He says NATO is obsolete unless, of course, the other members pay their fair share. Trump isn’t against intervention or war, he just wants it done at a profit.
Trump has overthrown one single foreign government yet
“Yet” being the operative word. And so f**king what? Killing with sanctions is all right with you?
You got me there No sanction and Blockades are bad
But no regime changes in 3 yrs must almost be a record Conducive to no civil war and more possibilities of peace
Not for lack of trying. Maduro won’t go quietly and the Iranians just won’t cooperate.
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`It is high time Trump starts running the military , He has been president almost 3 years . And war games that Trump does not like just keep going on . Maybe I have faulted all our past presidents for these constant wars . I thought the president was commander and chief . We elected Trump not the military industrial complex
I wholeheartedly agree, it’s high time DJT starts running the military .. He”s been POTUS nearly 3 years, and these war games DJT doesn’t like just keep going on. I, too, thought the President was Commander-in-Chief; and we elected DJT, not the Military Industrial Complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – in his Farewell Address – warned this nation of the dangers the MIC would leash on the world if it wasn’t reined in .. His successor, John F. Kennedy, constantly tried to rein in the MIC, among other things, and was assassinated on 22 Nov, 1963. LBJ and all his successors – including Barack Obama – fed the MIC and kept the non-ending wars going.
I’m glad DJT’s in agreement with Kim Jong-Un’s opposition to US war games in the Korean Peninsula. I’m quite surprised that SK President Moon Jae-In permitted these exercises .. He had been negotiating with his NK counterpart over doing away with the DMZ fence and allowing families separated for 60+ years to reunite with each other. What happened?
I put the blame on DJT’s 2 handlers – Pompous Pompeo, and mostly on Bonkers Bolton. It was Bonkers who sabotaged the 2nd Summit in Hanoi and got the Pentagon to start the military exercises with the SK military – pure and simple,
Gobbledygook from our Commander in Chief and from Dietz. Pentagon officials cannot start war games if Trump says no. Who is in charge here?
He doesn’t like paying for it, while also lobbying for the biggest Pentagon budget, ever. He’s against the ‘war games’ but obviously never told any military commanders, or anyone else, for that matter. Great leader!
*Some Pentagon officials have pushed for the resumption of such exercises, saying that the pause in such games had weakened US combat readiness*
Horsesh!t.
Can we give Kim credit for preventing a massacre in Korea? Admit that the presence of his atomic arsenal is what keeps the warmongers away.
The paint insurance is a waste of money I know, but my boss requires it…will that be cash or check ? Basic low level sales bs.