{"id":12105,"date":"2017-04-13T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12105"},"modified":"2017-04-13T20:12:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T03:12:45","slug":"going-it-alone-means-going-it-with-lots-of-other-nations-or-is-donald-trump-insane-bradcast-4132017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12105","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Going It Alone Means Going It With Lots of Other Nations&#8217; (Or, Is Donald Trump Insane?): &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/13\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_DonaldTrump_KimJongUn_041317.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s a serious question. Is Donald Trump insane? You can offer your opinion on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\/status\/852417467146043393\">my Twitter poll<\/a>, if it&#8217;s still open. But, on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we examine just some of the evidence, as our unstable U.S. President threatens war against the unstable leader of North Korea, with potentially unspeakable consequences now hanging dangerously in the balance. [<i>Audio to today&#8217;s show follows below.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the stories on today&#8217;s program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-afghanistan-bomb-idUSKBN17F27U\">drops<\/a> the largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed, for the first time, in the 15th year of our war in Afghanistan;<\/li>\n<li>Coalition forces <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/e4b8e76876d149a8a1dd62fef1a5aff0\">&#8220;misdirected&#8221;<\/a> air strike in Syria, killing 18 allied fighters;<\/li>\n<li>Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/1bf88ac3f5ca4a9ea73cf38aae8ae62c\">warns<\/a> that nuclear armed North Korea could deploy chemical weapons in response to U.S. provocation, as Trump sends U.S. Navy battle group to Korean Peninsula in advance of an anticipated NK nuclear test;<\/li>\n<li>Russian Asia expert <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/politics\/201704131052612166-us-north-korea-chernobyl\/\">warns<\/a> a conventional weapons attack by North Korea against South Korea&#8217;s nuclear power plants could result in &#8220;five-six Chernobyl-type disasters&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Over the past 48 hours, Trump completely <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/6059cbadcf1a4f449477cfd815c67efa\">reverses<\/a> long-held positions on NATO, U.S. military strength, China currency manipulation, and more, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-says-he-offered-china-better-trade-terms-in-exchange-for-help-on-north-korea-1492027556\">reveals<\/a> that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2017\/4\/12\/15279654\/trump-north-korea-xi-10-minutes\">learned<\/a>, after speaking with China&#8217;s President &#8220;for 10 minutes&#8221; recently that China&#8217;s relationship with North Korea is &#8220;not so easy&#8221; (before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-northkorea-idUSKBN17E2PO\">threatening<\/a> to &#8220;go it alone&#8221; in a strike against North Korea, which, he says, &#8220;means going it with lots of other nations&#8221;);<\/li>\n<li>EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt goes on Fox &#8220;News&#8221; today to <a href=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/13\/fox-friends-provides-platform-scott-pruitt-mislead-paris-climate-agreement\/216015\">blatantly lie<\/a> about U.S., China, and India&#8217;s obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the UN&#8217;s landmark Paris Climate Agreement;<\/li>\n<li>Proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/10\/climate\/trump-epa-budget-cuts.html\">cuts<\/a> to specific EPA programs are draconian, dangerous and ridiculous;<\/li>\n<li>And, to help us forget about all of the above, Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/13\/world\/canada\/trudeau-marijuana.html\">introduces<\/a> legislation to legalize recreational marijuana across their entire country&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_TrumpInsanity_NorthKorea_EPA_041317.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_TrumpInsanity_NorthKorea_EPA_041317.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a serious question. Is Donald Trump insane? You can offer your opinion on my Twitter poll, if it&#8217;s still open. But, on today&#8217;s BradCast, we examine just some of the evidence, as our unstable U.S. President threatens war against the unstable leader of North Korea, with potentially unspeakable consequences now hanging dangerously in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,89,675,500,598,543,272,479,200,451,14,24,951,473,961,477,751,107,137,157,834,534,900,959,868,611,186,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-canada","category-china","category-climate-change","category-dept-of-defense","category-donald-trump","category-environment","category-epa","category-fox-news","category-iraq-war","category-ivanka-trump","category-japan","category-jared-kushner","category-kpfk","category-marijuana","category-national-security","category-nato","category-north-korea","category-paris-agreement","category-russia","category-scott-pruitt","category-south-korea","category-steve-bannon","category-syria","category-united-nations","category-war-on-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12105"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}