The grey beards are in a near-panicked meltdown. Paul Kelly:
The world has changed. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have substituted a diplomatic contest for military threats. Immediate signs suggest three winners: Trump, whose standing at home will rise after such narcissistic deal-making; Kim, whose tactical cunning has generated more options for North Korea; and China’s Xi Jinping, now being offered strategic gains he will surely pocket.
The Singapore summit takes Trump’s showmanship to a zenith. In smashing the decades-long political freeze on the peninsula, Trump and Kim, unconventional disrupters in different ways, have created a new paradigm — a declared US-North Korea collaboration that, if successful, means a US military retreat from northeast Asia.
