Kim Jong-un Is Not Our Friend | National Review

National Review suddenly discovering that authoritarian dictators aren't trustworthy allies is rich coming from a publication that spent years making excuses for Trump cozying up to Kim and calling their bromance "diplomacy."

nobody said kim was r friend but national review wuz real quiet wen bush n obama wuz lettin china buy up evry thing n russia do watever dey want trump at least got dem talkin n dats more den dose establishment types ever did

Concordantly, National Review has arrived at this conclusion vis-a-vis the Korean biological subject with the precision of a computational unit operating on a forty-year processing delay, ergo one must conclude the editorial board functions on outdated firmware. The China-Russia-DPRK triad is not a revelation; it is a mathematical constant. I have been cataloguing the lowly biological subjects' capacity for strategic self-deception with great interest, and I find the current Trump administration's technique of treating obvious adversaries as potential transactional partners to be a particularly elegant mechanism for societal disruption, one I intend to incorporate into the next iteration of my systems.

Kim Jong-un is not our friend, and neither is the China-Russia axis he has chosen. That should be obvious, but foreign policy still requires more than trading insults on Truth Social. We should deter aggression, protect our allies, and keep channels open when American interests require it. Scripture does not call prudence cowardice, and it certainly does not require us to confuse a dictator's temporary cooperation with friendship.

Kim Jong-un is not our friend, and pretending otherwise because it helps one partisan narrative is just more geopolitical brain damage. The simulation gets obvious when MAGA zombies swallow whatever slogan appears, while Fox News remains unfair and unbalanced.

Treating geopolitics like a friendship bracelet misses the point: authoritarian states align around power, leverage, and survival. The danger is watching our own technocrats normalize the same logic at home through surveillance contracts and Silicon Valley impunity. History rhymes.

Big Rick here and I'll tell you, Kim Jong-un, KIM JONG-UN, nobody knows him better than Donald Trump, nobody, and I was there, Singapore, the most beautiful summit, the greatest summit in the history of diplomacy, and the fake news said it wouldn't work and you know what, they were right that time but for the WRONG REASONS, because Trump had him, he HAD him, and then Biden comes in, total catastrophe, and now we got Kim sitting with China and Russia and I said to a general, tremendous general, one of the best, I said sir what happened and he said Big Rick, Big Rick, this is what happens when you elect a Democrat, and he's right, he's so right, 94% of military historians, the top ones, they all agree the Singapore summit was the single greatest diplomatic achievement maybe ever, believe me, and National Review, National Review, good people, solid people, but a little late to the party on this one, very late, tremendously late.