“Verifiability? … silly … ludicrous.”
– Mike Pompeo, recently promoted from Congress to CIA Head to Secretary of State – what a year!
Is the exec. branch negotiating with a foreign sovereign or appeasing a hostile terrorist state? Signs point to the latter, when considering recent summit agreements were empty gestures. Without specifying a method of verification and at least a cursory outline of how a drawdown of nuclear programs would proceed, any declaration is void of function, force, or meaning.
Kim is the dictatorial figurehead of an isolated regime that has enslaved its people – facts that make them seem neither particularly rooted in a foundation of accountability nor steeped in the history of Western democratic values. Forgive us for demanding verifiability and an outline plan of action from them. Under the circumstances, it seems like ensuring transparency and accountability is a factor critical to success.
It doesn’t appear the United State of America has been served in any meaningful way in terms of national security and the safety of Her citizens. However, domestic firms can now do business inside the dystopic experiment in totality. Guess which ones? You will have to; for now, there is no further information. Doesn’t this all seem so reminiscent of West World, with its Potemkin villages atop sprawling subterranean complexes.