Fareed Zakaria Article Summary
Summary of the Article
Fareed Zakaria begins his article by highlighting the worrisome and dangerous tension between the United States and North Korea, which the Trump administration has escalated. North Korea has possessed nuclear weapons for ten years prior to the Trump administration. This article illustrates how the Trump administration added unnecessary pressure to an already delicate situation. For example, Sec. of State Rex Tillerson ended the era a strategic patience with N. Korea and Trump threatened N. Korea with a tweet stating, “fire and fury like the world has never seen before,” indicating a massive military strike. Zakaria, however, believes that these are cheap and empty threats, ultimately weakening the prestige and power of the United States. Zakaria’s main point is that Trump always makes outlandish threats, but he never delivers. …show more content…
Critical Analysis
The major issue with the Trump administration making threats of war, is not that he will not follow through with his plans, but that there is a chance that his irrational behavior might actually cause an international nuclear war.
In addition, his threats make rattle our allies, South Korea and Japan, which are North Korea’s the neighboring regions. Proposing or even claiming/ tweeting threats of this nature adds animosity and tension between the US and N. Korea, but also adds more tension to S. Korea and Japan which are already
apprehensive.
Application of Class Concepts
This applies to the concept of how war affects our everyday lives. War affects a country’s economic systems, ability to trade, and it becomes a major national security threat. Making empty threats of war would make Americans, South Korea, and the Japanese a target of North Korea. In addition, this would take a financial toll on individuals and countries because of the sacrifices and money needed to fund the war. Trump needs to learn how to deal with sensitive international situations like this, by learning from the past. Instead of escalating the tension by making threats of war, he should develop a deterrence scheme, with intention to keep the peace. Trump should read over the democratic peace theory and realize that war is not in our best interest, nor will it secure our position as a leader internationally. A war with North Korea right now might have the opposite effect.
Fareed Zakaria begins his article by highlighting the worrisome and dangerous tension between the United States and North Korea, which the Trump administration has escalated. North Korea has possessed nuclear weapons for ten years prior to the Trump administration. This article illustrates how the Trump administration added unnecessary pressure to an already delicate situation. For example, Sec. of State Rex Tillerson ended the era a strategic patience with N. Korea and Trump threatened N. Korea with a tweet stating, “fire and fury like the world has never seen before,” indicating a massive military strike. Zakaria, however, believes that these are cheap and empty threats, ultimately weakening the prestige and power of the United States. Zakaria’s main point is that Trump always makes outlandish threats, but he never delivers. …show more content…
Critical Analysis
The major issue with the Trump administration making threats of war, is not that he will not follow through with his plans, but that there is a chance that his irrational behavior might actually cause an international nuclear war.
In addition, his threats make rattle our allies, South Korea and Japan, which are North Korea’s the neighboring regions. Proposing or even claiming/ tweeting threats of this nature adds animosity and tension between the US and N. Korea, but also adds more tension to S. Korea and Japan which are already
apprehensive.
Application of Class Concepts
This applies to the concept of how war affects our everyday lives. War affects a country’s economic systems, ability to trade, and it becomes a major national security threat. Making empty threats of war would make Americans, South Korea, and the Japanese a target of North Korea. In addition, this would take a financial toll on individuals and countries because of the sacrifices and money needed to fund the war. Trump needs to learn how to deal with sensitive international situations like this, by learning from the past. Instead of escalating the tension by making threats of war, he should develop a deterrence scheme, with intention to keep the peace. Trump should read over the democratic peace theory and realize that war is not in our best interest, nor will it secure our position as a leader internationally. A war with North Korea right now might have the opposite effect.