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Mike Hosking: Trump-Un Summit a victory for the world

Publish Date
Tue, 12 Jun 2018, 6:11AM
Donald Trump (Photo / Getty)
Donald Trump (Photo / Getty)

Mike Hosking: Trump-Un Summit a victory for the world

Publish Date
Tue, 12 Jun 2018, 6:11AM

So short of Kim Jong Un and/or Donald Trump pounding out of the meeting giving each other the finger, and rushing home to point rockets at each other.  

It’s a win. Today is historic, the very fact we have today is a victory.  

All of this why they are there, who gave in to who, who gains the most politically, in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter.  

As we sit here today the world is a safer place because of this meeting. Even if they do nothing more than say, "it went well, and we'll get together again soon,"  is a win and the world remains a safer place.  

If they make any sort of progress at all, it's a win and the world is a safer place.  

And anything apart from that by way of negativity will be driven by political agenda and/or hatred for Trump.  

Most of the critics, and there are plenty of them under different circumstances, would be salivating at the prospect of today.  

The argument about Trump having to travel further, the argument about it’s a win for Un given he gets legitimised by being in the same room as aPresident is all crap that prevents progress.  

Say what you like about Trump and the way he goes about stuff. But what you can't argue with is, he gets stuff done.  

While they all huff and puff in Canada about the G7, tell me the last time a G7 meeting did anything, anything solid, tangible and memorable.  

Tell me what happened last year at the G7. You can't because that’s politics on a daily basis. Hot air, pleasantries, idealistic waffle, and poof it's gone.  

Who cares if Korea needs this more, if it leads somewhere better than where we have been. We are winning.  

Nothing short of de-nuking is acceptable they say. What tosh.  

If Un never fires another rocket even if he has rockets, that's a win.  

Most agreements end in a compromise, not a one sided vanquish.

History shows us peace is often fragile or delicate. Peace can have set backs, but peace is what you have, nevertheless.  

You got to see this in simple terms, before today you had a rogue nation most of the world fretted over and started to melt down about overtime the leader went nuts with rhetoric and a rocket.

As a result of Singapore, we have at the very worst a stalemate, a truce of sorts, a stand off.  

Is there goodwill? Appears so. Is there every reason to believe there will be progress? Why not?

Is there a chance this is the start of something good? Who doesn’t want to think so?  

So let's for now, keep it at that. Today is a good day and it might lead to more of them. You'd be churlish to try and undermine that. 

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