Good evening! It's been a scary week in America and particularly, here on the west coast. I went to the camping goods section of our local Walmart store today. I was surprised to find almost the entire camping section cleared out with only a few remaining pieces of gear left on its shelves. I asked one of the clerks how soon they would be refilling their shelves? She told me she didn't know and that they were seeing alot of traffic from people who were
"prepping" for a possible showdown, between Kim Jong Un and America.
When I got home, I decided to sit down and read a little. I read it was hoped that "Cooler heads would prevail", to prevent further escalation in the war of words, burning away the fuse between Kim Jong Un and Pres. Trump. It was vexing that those "cooler heads", talked about in the article...didn't belong to Americans, but to Russian and Chinese diplomats.
I've heard all of my life, as a child and an adult, that Russia and China were America's enemies. So it seems ironic that the leaders of these 2 foreign countries, could actually turn out to be the unlikely heroes in this modern day example of a twisted Shakespearean tale, attempting to calm the roiled waters between North Korea and America!
Putin and Jinping's dual desire to broker peace, may be the only way an international mediation between the adversarial nations of Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump, could possibly produce a successful, fair and lasting resolution. Their partnership may be the hope of last resort, to realistically produce any kind or duration of peace. If Putin and Jinping are given enough time to stimulate a dialogue between Kim and Trump, it is possible that they can mitigate the seething anger and hatred between the 2 hostile leaders on the brink of lobbing bombs between their doorsteps.
If Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping can prevent WWIII from starting, they will deserve to be jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Both Russian and Chinese leaders will have earned the respect of every intelligent and prescient person on this planet, who understand that no one really wins in war, because both sides loose something valuable...life... always somebody's life.
It appears that Russia and China represent the adults in the classroom here. Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, has metaphorically and quite aptly characterized these 2 emotionally stunted adolescents, acting out on the world stage, like 2 school children fighting in kindergarten. Question is: which adult is the classroom teacher and which one is the school Principal? Whose going to break it up?
Everyday, I can see the brilliance and wisdom of Einstein's historically recorded admonition.
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
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Albert Einstein
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"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
~Malcolm X~
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Lavrov on Trump, North Korea:
"We Have to Calm Down the Hotheads"
When it comes to the escalating, personal war of words between the tetchy leaders of nuclear-armed states, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov thinks there’s been inappropriate rhetoric on both sides.
Speaking at a press briefing at the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, Lavrov likened the war of words between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to “a kindergarten fight between children. And no one can stop them.”
Trump threatened to “totally destroy” Kim’s country this week. Kim responded with an unusual personal address, labelling Trump a “mentally deranged dotard,” and floating the idea of exploding a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific. Trump, who has authority for thousands of nuclear warheads, then responded on Twitter Friday, “Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn’t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!”
Regarding the “exchange of threats, naturally it’s quite bad,” said Lavrov. “It’s simply unacceptable to sit back and look at nuclear military gambles of North Korea,” but so, too, is it “unacceptable to start war on the peninsula.” Lavrov suggested that perhaps some neutral European country could negotiate between Trump and Kim.
Beyond his pox-on-your-both-your-houses approach to the United States and North Korea, Lavrov underscored one of the biggest risks of Trump’s tough rhetoric this week, which has included open denunciations of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Lavrov noted that Pyongyang is carefully watching how the United States deals with that pact, currently up for recertification. (Russia and Europe all want the deal to continue.)
But Trump’s threats to tear up the deal, which relieved some sanctions on Iran in exchange for a halt to nuclear development, make any sort of negotiated deal with North Korea all the more unlikely, Lavrov noted.
“Right now, North Korea is being told, ‘renounce weapons and we’ll lift sanctions,” Lavrov said.
“If this agreement on the Iran nuclear deal will fall apart, they will say, ‘why do I need to negotiate with you?’”
“I think it’s a very apparent thing,” the foreign minister added.
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