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Joshua Scheer
What did I say this morning?
So much for the “college try.” It didn’t even last a day.
I never expected anything real to come from this — not from a United States that is not only losing ground, but losing face in full view of the world. This wasn’t strength at the table. It was the performance of it.
Any hope of curtailing a nuclear program under these conditions is already fading. We’ve seen how this story ends — the world learns to live with it. North Korea was supposed to be the exception. Instead, it became the precedent.
I thought they’d at least keep up the illusion a little longer — stretch it out, posture for a few days, pretend diplomacy still had a pulse before the expected collapse.
But no.
It unraveled almost immediately.
And maybe that’s the most honest thing about all of this.
At least now we’re not pretending.
