Remember that tweet in June 2018 from Mr Trump
declaring victory shortly after returning from Singapore and his meeting with
Kim Jong Un.
“There is no longer a
Nuclear Threat from North Korea”. Really? Did Kim
agree to dismantle his nuclear programme?
Nope.
So the emergence of secret
missile bases and the reality that North Korea is continuing production of
atomic warheads and nuclear-capable rockets, should hardly be a surprise to
anyone according to Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the Middlebury Institute
of International Studies at Monterey and the author of the novel The 2020
Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United
States.
So as we look back we can come
to two of two conclusions. Either Mr
Trump’s announcement was a lie. Or it
suggested a complete misunderstanding on the president’s part of Kim’s plans
and promises. “Kim didn’t deceive anyone,” Lewis added.
“Trump deceived himself.”
The
similarities between that and what is happening between Mrs May and the EU is
scarily striking. The EU isn't telling
lies or deceiving anyone. They are
forthright in what they are saying. And
if recent history is anything to go by in relation to nations like Greece, they
keep their word.
The problem is not the
EU. The problem is, like Mr Trump, Mrs May is deceiving
herself. And the coterie of people who she has gathered around herself are people who tell her what she wants to hear, the insensitive bringing back of Ms Rudd being a case in point.
If she truly believes that there is goodwill on the EU side to come up with a deal she would have no need of the so called
backstop. But the idea that the EU will allow compromise or show goodwill is a fantasy.
One thing is sure, if we have
that backstop, that is exactly where we will end up. And history backs up that view.
Mrs May is not telling lies. She is not telling the truth which is
different. And she is doing that because
she is deceiving herself.
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