Crazy ass famous b player is more famous for being off the wall, then he was at basketball. Makes him a famous ex player.
Now he’s even more famous for being buds with Kim 2 ill next, the guy that replaced the last dick that ran that shit hole.
You know what. That inexperienced dick, sorry, let’s show some respect for a head of state who has a nuke button.Dictator. Not a dick. And did I mention he could be isolated emotionally, has no one to look up to, might even have mental health issues. Not talking about Rodman now, that little Korean god. And the tiny dick has a nuke button. No shit.
So then all these talk heads start bagging on Rodman, like talking to the Kim ill whats his name is unpatriotic, or maybe a bad.
Not seeing it here. What’s the downside to Rodmans friendship ? I see possible upsides (avoiding nuke fighting), but no comparable downsides. Sure, he has people executed on a whim, but maybe having a friend on our side may moderate Kim a bit. If it doesn’t, Rodman didn’t make a bad scene worse IMHO.
I think you certainly have a point. Rodman befriending Un likely has a geopolitical upside with less chance for a downside.
That said, unless Rodman has this specifically in mind or is in fact a secret CIA agent working intentionally at the stabilization of North Korean foreign relations, then one can’t help but wonder what the fuck his motivations are.
Imagine if you will that your own sister starts dating and screwing the neighborhood bully, a large and oafish boy, with the express intention of making him a nicer guy, less inclined to harass you and your friends. Bravo, your sister. But what if your sister just likes the neighborhood bully and thinks he’s great in the sack? What might you think about your sister then? Of course, it’s her life, but wouldn’t you be curios?
Least of all the CIA or even Rodman. But he has stuck his foot in a previously shut door, and now he’s talking.
I think some people, like Rodman, think very emotionally. Kim craves recognition and respect from the world outside of NK, and hasn’t gotten much. Rodman realizes this and created “basketball diplomacy”. The chance that a squad of short malnourished and poorly trained NK players will suddenly tear up the hoops seems unlikely. No better than their chances against the USA air force.
So I don’t see much downside. Sure, it is a PR win for Kim in NK, but he owns that place anyway, he is officially God there. Not much terrain we can lose there at this point.
I worry about the mental health of Kim. Only his mental health stops him from a mission to smuggle in nukes to the USA. Sure, we could nuke NK hard in response, but a depressed isolated man may be suicidal, and megalomaniacs
are notorious for the caviler attitude they take regarding the suffering of their subjects. Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Nixon, none of these leaders were famous for crying jags in response to the thought of killing thousands.
OK, WW2 was bad. But maybe Ford convinced his pal with the bad mustache that Germany really was superior. That Yanks made crap, easily shot away with superior German tanks. Make panzers, vastly superior to Fords crappy Shermans.
What he didn’t spill is how he could make 25 Shermans to every superior BMW quality Panzer. Ford was a sly dog. He didn’t make his fortune by beating Duisinburg and Rolls Royce. He made millions of Tin Lizzies. Then uncountable low cost Sherman tanks rolled into Berlin.