Trump getting us out of Korea

He is not stupid enough to think he has actually somehow caused NK's nuclear arsenal to disappear, and he has already admitted without alarm - joking, in fact - that NK might not actually follow through on nuclear disarmament.

He has called off training for our troops in SK without which they are less of a deterrent and less capable of simply defending themselves, and has already said he wants to pull them out.

And he has significantly distanced himself from the brinkmanship of the rhetoric of war both he and his administration publicly espoused during the scariest part of the crisis.

Almost everybody agrees that, if it isn't already too late for military action - because they can and very possibly would nuke us - to force them to abandon their nukes it soon will be.

And so Kim and the Buchanites win.

Nobody really thinks the US would or should go to war against a nuclear armed NK to help SK fend off invasion.

Truth to tell, nobody wants an American president to risk anything remotely that serious in an effort to keep Putin from military action against neighboring pieces of the ex-Soviet Union.

We are all of us getting softened up for an American withdrawal of our forces and of our guarantees from SK, and maybe next Japan.

Maybe this is how Trump staggers his way toward the isolationist policies of his campaign.

Globalists deplore the dismantling of what they call "the post-WW2 liberal world order", referring in actual fact to the system of international alliances left over from the long-gone Cold War.

But those global alliances are past their shelf-life, and we need neither the ability nor the commitments to fight 2 and 1/2 wars against any adversaries, anywhere in the world, at the same time, though it is perfectly obvious that "the deep state" and the majority of politicians in both parties are not ready to even think so, much less say so and make the necessary changes.

The NATO countries are rich enough, populous enough, and powerful enough to conduct their own collective defense, or their own military adventures, without us.

So are Japan, SK, and the other states in the Far East, especially if they remain allied with Australia and New Zealand.

None of which is to say any of Trump's protectionist moves make the least sense.

And though of course we need to continue police and security cooperation with everybody facing Islamic or other forms of terrorism, that does not mean we really need to participate with the Europeans and friendly local powers in the continuing military struggles against ISIS, the Taliban, and other radical Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Central Asia, or Africa.

Anyway, we certainly don't need to take a leading role either politically or militarily in any of that.