Today we therefore have a comical, albeit nightmarish, reversal whereby a megalomaniac ruling in Pyongyang is being tacitly supported, certainly admired, by mainstream US media working against a sitting US President, because for the media it is more important to vilify Trump than it is to spotlight the security abyss Trump inherited from his predecessor.
The media are instead focusing on the limited options available to the current US president – each option worse than the previous one – while ignoring the fact that it is the previous US president who has delivered us into this impossible predicament.
Ultimately, however, as North Korea continues its escalations, the predicament still has to be resolved. Nevertheless, the media, led by CNN, ghoulishly clap their hands in delight at every injudicious comment made by Trump. The media laugh in derision at his suggested methods of containing the dangerous escalation by North Korea’s unelected strongman, because every such suggestion will of necessity plunge not just the US but much of the rest of the western world into military, industrial and commercial strife.
Meanwhile the media consistently ignore the fact that standing quietly on the sidelines watching this debacle unfold are the hardline mullahs of Iran. If the world community fails to deal robustly with Pyongyang as it continues its policy of extortion and brinkmanship, Tehran will quite naturally draw the logical conclusion that the world community will also hesitate to deal robustly with Tehran.
Which means that two rogue states with nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities – and intimate, long-term nuclear-weapons cooperation – will be calling the shots. While the media continue their sport of Trump-baiting. Blind and deaf to the emerging story they won't report until it becomes a reality – after which they will be unable to report it.