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K: America has become (under Trump) a shadow of it's former self and those Scandanavians [sic]/Europeans on our cruise (mostly older folks) we talked to assailed (another word for you to look up Jim) Trump’s “America First” policies. Some were quite livid (others giddy about our fall). But all quite anti-Trump.

**Each of those Scandinavians also thought “Denmark First” or “Norway First,” so what else is new? The fact they hate us is nothing new, but I'm sure you enjoyed observing their animus. The shadow did not begin under Trump but has progressed since the 1960s when the flower-children came of age. The U.S. is joining olde Europe in rotting within and headed south big-time but it's still top-dog in this world.

K: Trump would be more successful in curbing immigration if he helped Central America (and their autocratic leaders) with political pressure to end the drug trade/social oppression and shift DHS funding from immigration hardline (immoral) enforcement to humanitarian aid for food/infrastructure improvements, like America did with the Marshall Plan following WW II. That is what made America great. Meanwhile Trump has pushed us into the gutter of child/family mistreatment.

**Progressive/Democrat boilerplate! Political pressure on already bankrupt governments—with no plan to be otherwise—is ridiculous. Comparing Central America currently to Europe of 1945 is so “apple & oranges” as to be laughable. Money headed for that benighted area goes directly into the dictators' pockets. People will forget the alleged child/family mistreatment by November so the dems and their media sycophants will have to find some other stuff to blame Trump for in order to flip Congress. The current FBI mess Obama started is now being brought to mind. The Congressional hearings are delicious. Besides being utterly adolescent, Obama's “fix” is just plain funny to watch.

K: As for the NK Summit, I don’t know enough of the details about the outcome (or documented agreements) to declare this summit a success or not.

**Nor claims anyone else with walking-around-sense. Too early to tell, though the naysayer-know-it-all crowd has already condemned Trump but is not mentioning Nixon's overtures to China back in the day when the nukes were armed and targeted...but, of course, not fired.

K: There is more than enough to decry Trump on the homefront, than pushing failure of these talks (especially when it may be a step forward). Now if Trump (or Kushner) starts a resort in NK for their profit, then I have a problem (while it may help the Nkeans).

**Yeah, capitalism is evil. Any millionaire like you claim to be knows this—right?

K: I do know that we have a good chance of intercepting any nuclear ICBM coming from NK. I regret not having access to as much info on all of this than I used to have.

**About as much chance as the proverbial snowball in hell. I doubt if one out of five could be intercepted and destroyed. The best way to stop them is to see that they are never fired. If that means blowing up much of NK, so be it.

I'm not sure that the Aussies (the ABC cited in Jim's reference) are up to date, or completely informed about the capabilities of US detection and interception of ICBM's, especially those produced by North Korea that have, in the data that has been gathered from their testing, not performed at a high level as the distance increases. I'm more inclined to take the word of someone like Keith, who had far more experience in this business than the Australian journalist who was just writing information he was told. I'd say the odds of Jim being right on this are less than the value of warm spit, which actually does have a very slight, and probably not measurable, value.

But of course, at least according to the alternate universe where Jim's thinking is coming from, this problem is resolved because Trump is now buddies with Kim Jong-Un, who "loves his people" and of course, looking ahead to Trump investments in a beach resort in North Korea (and probably a hefty personal bribe to get it going) isn't going to launch ICMB's at the US for fear of angering his cash cow. After all this was one of those "deals" that Trump bragged about being able to do, giving away all of the advantages and getting nothing in return. He just did it in China a week before. So we are safe.

Hey, Jim. How about letting me be your broker for your investments in Trump's North Korea resort? Just send me your check today and I'll see that he gets it.

Jim's preference for ABC over a dude who is a first hand expert, classified knowledge and all that, is noted. A new beginning of confidence in MSM?

Trump has no corner on the knowledge of Missile capability, nor do amateur commentators in this forum (i.e., me and everyone else), although common sense is helpful when considering the analogy, a bullet fired to hit another bullet. People who actually believe that could be done—even with the latest bullet-driven technology—with any consistency or in the case of multiple simultaneous events—will hopefully never be any part of the nation's defense-system regarding missiles, never mind the type of warhead. Here are a few other sites with regard to those scientists who actually know where the facts lead:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/coul ... n-missile;
https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/trumps- ... th-korea/;
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/intercept ... ense-test/.