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Stuart Munckton wrote
The summit essentially reaffirmed the spirit of transitioning to peacefu
coexistence contained in the Panmunjom Declaration signed at the
North-South Korean summit in April.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/south-north-korea-united-states-summit-trump-kim-jong-un
"The most common criticism levelled at Trump is that he failed to secure
complete, veritable, irreversible denuclearisation (CVID)...both sides
reached an agreement that reaffirmed the goal of denuclearisation and
peace, thereby opening the way for complete denuclearisation of the
Korean Peninsula."
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This crap about a "first step toward peace or denuclearization" is
misleading to the extreme. Why would anyone expect "denuclearisation of
the Korean Peninsula" or anywhere else? What is called for in any
negotiations to which the Leviathan is a part, as the history of all
such negotiations readily attests, is the complete, abject,
unconditional surrender of the other side. We hold uncountable nuclear
weapons, while they slink back into servility, and whatever the
short-run outcome transnationals dictate all the terms of trade,
globally, and can sanction, restrict and punish recalcitrants at will.
The countries and corporations around and about the center in the US
won't give an inch. Nuclear proliferation, with its growing
accessibility, decreasing cost and pragmatic necessity, absent systemic
change, is a virtual certainty. We should be clear about that on the
left by now. We should by now have cleared the air and risen above the
effects of news reports and commentary to which all are subject, by a
dwindling number of concentrated media, which successfully confine our
collective history to contrived reports of yesterday's happenings and
self-serving corporate diversion, with nothing about today's material
designs so much as suggested. It's small wonder that people are unaware,
and there's no need to forgive or remonstrate. If nuclear war is on the
horizon, no one will have had a say, or a clue. And throwing up blind
liberal pap about heightened hopes, making much of staged history,
doesn't help a bit.
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