Here is my expert hot take on the US-PRK summit:
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North Korea wanted a handshake meeting with a US president. They got it. The US wanted a denuclearized Korean peninsula. They didn't get it.
But because all of our media coverage - but especially or foreign policy coverage - is so fundamentally stupid, the fact that Trump accomplished no real world goals, only optics, will go unchallenged for a few days. Trump will get some broad sense of "win" (wait for the "at this moment he truly became presidential" takes), and then as the nothingburger proves to be even less than a nothingburger, people will have moved on.
Now, if only we could be as solicitous to Canada as to North Korea.
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