“ We are sending an armada , very powerful , ” President Donald Trump say over a hebdomad ago when asked about thetensions in North Korea . As it turn out , that “ armada ” was n’t heading anywhere near North Korea . And sadly , some very important allies are now nervously laughing at Trump ’s Lie .
On April 10th , the US Pacific Command announce that the USS Carl Vinson had left Singapore on April 8th , and that rather than direct planned physical exercise with Australia , would be heading for the Western Pacific . From there , thing swirled out of control , and cursorily . We now know that the USS Carl Vinson was nowhere near the Korean peninsula and was instead conducting exercises near Australia .
We know this because the US Navy posted a photo of the USS Carl Vinson fleet in Indonesia just a few days ago . It ’s not expected to arrive near North Korea until later this calendar month or perchance even next calendar month . Who knows ? We sure as shooting do n’t , after the Trump regimen made Americans look like mark .
The White House get the world conceive that the USS Carl Vinson was heading to South Korea when it was n’t . And yet the Trump administration refuses to own up to the lie .
“ The president enunciate that we have an armada buy the farm towards the peninsula . That ’s a fact . It hap . It is happening , rather , ” White House spokesman Sean Spicer told the press yesterday .
But it ’s not a fact . It ’s a Trygve Halvden Lie . A Trygve Lie that ’s incrediblyembarrassing to watch :
And it ’s a Trygve Lie that has hurt credibleness abroad . South Korea ’s conservative party , which is stanchly pro - US and hopes to win during the upcoming elections on May 9th , even chimed in to say that , “ If that was a prevarication , then during Trump ’s full term , South Korea will not rely whatever Trump say . ”
Again , this is descend from one of America ’s best friend , not some fringe anti - American group .
“ This seeming misrepresentation of the Carl Vinson tap group ’s intended function in Asia really hurt US credibility on this issue and will make implementation of any sort of policy toward North Korea harder in the long runnel , ” Jenny Town , Assistant Director of the US - Korea Institute at John Hopkins University , differentiate Gizmodo .
The part that confounds experts is that this was completely unnecessary . If your goal is to promote peace , this is n’t how to do it .
“ It was also unnecessarily rabble-rousing at a time when tensions were already high and counterproductive for trying to reassure our ally , ” Town told Gizmodo . “ The Trump governing needs to better sympathize that consistence in message is extremely authoritative when dole out with tender geopolitical matter . ”
The South Korean papers are also having a field sidereal day with the lie , bolstering anti - American thought .
“ Trump ’s lie over the Carl Vinson , ” the Korean newsprint JoongAng Ilbo ’s headline declared yesterday according to theNew York Times’translation . “ Xi Jinping and Putin must have had a in force jeering over this one . ”
“ Like North Korea , which is often impeach of displaying bastard missiles during military parades , is the United States , too , now employing ‘ bluffing ’ as its North Korea insurance ? ” the clause go forward .
The English - language Korea Herald was conservatively optimistic that Trump ’s lies were only the elbow room he does business , but warned that such a style could accidentally send the region into state of war .
“ Any sudden escalation in cavalry sword - rattling coupled with misleading statements could spawn a gratuitous flare - up in tension and public anxiety , ” theKorea Heraldsaid . “ And in a high-risk - pillowcase scenario , it may climax in a misestimation and armed clash , which no country , and no people in the existence could afford . ”
Experts on US - Nipponese relation are also pertain . At this point it seem that Japan , a country with penny-pinching military ties to the US , cooperated with the lie by simply stay mom .
“ Whatever the example , whether it was deliberate misinformation or a miscommunication between the Pentagon and the White House , it ’s quite serious , ” said Narushige Michishita , a external security expert at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo told theNew York Times . “ It undermines the credibleness of US leadership . ”
The world stands on the brink of war , and it seems like the only thing save us is the gross incompetency of both Donald Trump and Kim Jong - un . rent ’s just hope that their idiocy does n’t also spark us into nuclear holocaust .
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