Hopium

1. It's always ultimately about acquiring power.

"the notion that all of these problems are due to the malignant influence of one of two mainstream political parties, and if the other party could just get in control of the situation all the problems would go away."

To an extent, US behaviour in this matter has followed the usual pattern. The US is still wedded to the idea that its own values and systems are intrinsically superior to everyone else’s, and this explains the country’s success.
https://journal-neo.org/2018/06/11/north-korean-nuclear-summit-trump-shuts-all-the-doors-of-the-building-he-set-fire-to-2/

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-north-korea-issue-is-not-de-nuclearization-but-de-colonization/5644049

https://journal-neo.org/2018/06/14/tales-of-north-korean-abuses-no-facts-all-fiction/

I'm very optimistic about seeing the US empire die in my lifetime.