Could a ‘reckless’ Trump’s ‘destroy-and-deal’ tactics target North Korea?
A Korean-American leader said the strategy was influenced by ‘new neocons’, urging Seoul to prioritise risk management over diplomacy
Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson broke sharply with the president in a Wall Street Journal interview on Saturday, calling him a “slave” to hawkish interventionists willing to deploy military force.
While the president courted white working-class voters with anti-interventionist rhetoric, strategic lobbyists successfully persuaded him by rebranding military action to fit his “America first” agenda.
They engineered a “destroy-and-deal” strategy, Kim said. This approach relies heavily on drone warfare to bomb targets without committing US ground troops, forcing adversaries into negotiations without risking American casualties.